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From Codekit to Grunt and back

August 29, 2014

I’ve used Codekit since the day I started with Sass. It helped me understand Sass and make my CSS authoring fun again. A few weeks ago I was feeling pretty awesome and decided to puh-phushaw…

Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

March 25, 2014

I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it’s great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it turns out I was just doing it wrong. If you’ve used…

Force 1Password to sync with iCloud

September 26, 2013

I love 1Password. It’s hands down the most used app outside of my design and development tools. 1Password 4 is a very nice upgrade in almost every way. It’s faster, better looking, and they took…

Strong Passwords are easy with 1Password

March 23, 2012

You know you should be using strong passwords for every account, but how are you supposed to remember them? And even if you did remember a strong password, would it be secure if you used…

Dropping MobileMe

December 20, 2009

10/21/2011 Update: This is an article from 2009 about moving from MobileMe to Google for syncing of contacts, calendars, and email. While I did move away from MobileMe at the time, I’ve since transferred nearly…

2009 MacHeist bundle review

April 27, 2009

While there are quite a few people out there who detest the MacHeist event, I for one, love it. If you started from the beginning at The Giving Tree and subsequently participated in all the…

First Hand: How to begin a blog

October 26, 2008

When starting a section on your site that you intend to update on a frequent basis, its a good idea to ask yourself a few questions first. As this is my first real post, I’ll…