Being an informal presentation by Mr. Danny O’Brien and Mr. Merlin D. Mann—recognized on six or so continents as the most theoretically organized people in the world. This should change all that.
Here’s what it says on the tin:
Life Hacks and 43 Folders Super Session
- Danny O’Brien, editor, Need To Know
- Merlin Mann
Track: Insanely Great Mac
Date: Thursday, October 28
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Location: Stevens CreekMacintosh’s OS X has rapidly become the platform of choice for expatriate UNIX and Windows hackers seeking powerful, stylish ways to run their work and hack their lives. They brought with them some amazing new insight and new applications that are changing Macs and their users in profound ways.
“Life Hacks” warlord Danny O’Brien and 43 Folders’ Merlin Mann will plow through some of the hottest tools and tricks that Mac OS X black belts are using to run their lives. Highlights include:
- Quicksilver: The command line comes to your GUI (and it’s brought the web with it)
- Markdown: Stylish structure for all your plain text files
- GeekTool: The ultimate dashboard on your Desktop today
- Notational Velocity: The most elegant way to make and maintain your personal notebook
- Safari hacks: The indispensable add-ons that will kill ads, enable incremental search, and crack open the treasures of “debugging mode”
These are links to the applications that we are scheduled to demo in our session:
Bye for now.
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