Paul's Time Sink

Monday, September 10, 2007

SCPlugin

SCPlugin is a Subversion client for Mac OS X, that integrates svn access directly into the Finder. This is similar to how TortiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer.

I had two problems with SCPlugin.

There isn't a way to diff a file or directory from within its contextual menu. This is a major obmision, as I try and diff my changes before checking in.

It is using a higher version of the svn client library than the version of the command line tool that I have installed. This causes a problem where if I try and to a commit with SCPlugin, I can not use the command line tool on that directory

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

I was looking at the other products that the developer of JollysFastVNC works on, and I saw that he is developing ScreenRecycler. This looks like a cool product, that lets you use a second computer as a additional display.

This is different than synergy, where you can use the same keyboard and mouse to control two different computers, but with synergy, when the cursor is on the remote computer, you are accessing that computer.

JollysFastVNC

This week's Pick of the Week on Mac OS X hints, is JollysFastVNC. This is an amazingly fast VNC client. It is significantly faster that Chicken of the VNC. The developer has posted a video showing the speed.

It worked great for me, when connected to my Mac mini running OSXVnc VNC server. It looks like it currently doesn't support the Tight encoding. But, event without that it was completely useable when connecting to the Mac mini over the internet.

Remember the Milk Widget

I was taking a look at the third party products that are available for use with Remember the Milk. This Dashboard Widget allows you to view your tasks in the Mac OS X Dashboard. It is easier to view your tasks in the widget than to launch a browser.

You can mark tasks as complete from the widget, but you can not create new tasks.