I was working on an article, doing really well, getting some nice research done, then BAM, Notification Center tells me that a friend was having a beer down the street that happened to look totally nommers on Untappd. So I had to check it out for myself. How I feel about Notification Center today:
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Scripting Notification Alerts to Notification Center in Mountain Lion
The terminal-notifier command is a tool used for sending messages and actions to the Notification Center. It’s a gem, so to set it up we’ll first run the gem command to install it by name: gem install terminal-notifier Once installed, run the command along with the -message option followed by a quoted message: terminal-notifier -message "Hello world" This produces a message from Notification Center as follows: The title on the screen though, says Terminal. We want to change the title to something else. To do so, add the -title option. Adding the -title option along with a quoted title then displays a title in the top of the notification. You…
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Programmatically Disable Notification Center in Mountain Lion (aka My Battery Life Sucks)
There are a few ways I like to extend my battery life on my MacBook Air. These days, it’s increasingly important to conserve battery life as the transition to Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) has caused my battery life to spiral into so much of a vortex that I am concerned that my laptop must be shooting raw electricity out of the bottom (which would certainly explain why my hair has a tendency to be perpendicular with the ground when I exit a plane). Ever since moving to Mountain Lion (yes, this includes 10.8.2), I’m lucky to get 3 hours of battery life out of the Mac that used…
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A Guide To Using Mountain Lion Server (OS X 10.8)
I’ve been doing a number of postings on how to use various features of the latest version of OS X Server. Given that WordPress is pretty much a reverse chronological listing of articles I’ve written, I thought I’d put together a listing of the pages that I’ve done for OS X Server 10.8 (Mountain Lion Server) in order to offer a more pedagogically aligned way of reading these posts. As such, here is the Table of Contents for these posts: Introduction What Changed 10 Impactful Changes Upgrading from Lion Upgrading from Snow Leopard Managing the Server Configuring Alerts Using Web Modules Enable Push Notifications Configuring Time and Time Services Setting Up…
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Notification Center, Mountain Lion and Me
I love Notification Center on my phone. I think it’s great to receive a simple list of items that have changed since the last time I looked at the phone. I can also quickly dismiss the screen so the fact that there’s often 20 or more items in the list when I’ve been sitting at my computer for 10 minutes and not looking at the phone doesn’t really bum me out much. In Mountain Lion, Notification Center comes to the Mac. What I’ve grown to love on the iPhone, I’m not sold on for OS X. You see, the alerts that pop up on the screen are great for a…