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tom_usher

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tom_usher··on Slate: Tiling window management for OS X
This is by far my favourite window manager for OSX - one of my favourite uses for it is 'layouts'. I define a layout for different 'modes' of a typical workday and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts:

- WebDev, push Chrome to the left, iTerm to the right

- Dev - fullscreen iTerm, and inversely, Web - fullscreen Chrome.

- Support - Mail on one side, browser on another

One thing I wish it had was Spaces support; so I could set up a layout across multiple spaces.

Another great feature is 'default' - I switch between a standing desk setup and my laptop (seated) a couple of times during the day by enabling/disabling my second monitor. Slate is set up to rearrange my windows how I like them for both setups automatically when a change of monitors is detected.

tom_usher··on Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
Looks great; been looking for something like this. I've really enjoyed using Slate[1] for OSX window management - it has great file based configuration and lots of options - often wish it had something a bit more straightforward like automatic tiling window layouts.

[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate

tom_usher··on Show HN: Pipe, library to run ifttt-like alerts locally
Looks nice - been thinking of something like this for a very lightweight ESB.
tom_usher··on Gmvault v1.7-beta, Gmail backup simply: The initial version I wanted to build
Thanks for your work on Gmvault - really helps with my peace of mind.

I'd love to see:

- Better support for multiple accounts - at the moment I have to specify separate data directories manually every time I want to re-run a backup of each of my accounts. Would be great if Gmvault worked this out for me, and could run a backup on multiple accounts in a single run.

- Some way to read my backed up emails easily without re-importing them to Gmail - a mini mail server, a web-based UI, etc.

- A way to export to some other format if I want to migrate away to Gmail - mbox, etc.

tom_usher··on SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
It works on iPad - they're using livestream.com which is the only service I've seen with a decent non-flash live-streaming service - I'm not sure why they don't have the option to serve that to other devices.
tom_usher··on HTML & CSS formatting ideas from Paul Irish
This is perfectly valid HTML - a lot of closing tags are completely optional [1].

Not a big fan myself because it feels like I'm leaving everything hanging, but nice to have the option.

[1]: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML#HTML_Elements_wit...

tom_usher··on How to register a company in the UK
I'm facing the same problem. I'm just out of education (in the UK) and primarily doing contract work under my own name, I don't know whether getting an accountant would be beneficial, and if so, how to find one that is best for someone in my situation (and aiming to start up).

This sort of information about the basics is surprisingly hard to find, so this article is particularly refreshing.

Makes me think, I'm sure many people (including me) would be happy to pay to talk (IM) to someone who knows something about this sort of thing. Does this exist as a web service anywhere?

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