Today is a site-wide outage at work while they upgrade all of the Networking Hardware from Gig-E Copper to 10Gig-E Fiber (and replace alot of other hardware just for good measure).  That means I’m "Working from home" today.  However, with all of the work resources offline, that means I’m pretty much stuck with monitoring and updating the Viz Website (http://daac.hpc.mil) and doing documentation/offline work.  I have, however, gotten several hours to "tweak" my new MacBook laptop and I’ve found alot of neat things that I thought I’ld chronicle here for anyone interested:

  1. The Dashboard – While I’ve used the Dashboard for a while, I put my first "Website Clipping" on their: The Daily digest for IWantSandy.  Now a quick "F4" and I can easily see what sandy’s got for me to do today.
  2. iCal – I setup iCal to download my calendar from iWantSandy and show the ToDo’s.  This integrates with alot of other apps very nicely, and it’s pretty seamless.
  3. Mail.app – I configured OSX’s Mail.app to check my GMail account via IMAP.  This integrates with the flow of the system much better than the web interface (better notifications, links in with various apps "Email to" functionality, etc).

Those 3 setups have greatly improved the usability of the system and added alot of neat new cooperation.  The "Todo" list imported from Sandy via iCal shows up in my mail.  I can use Mail.app to create "Notes" which show up as emails (although I doubt I’ll use this much since i have EverNote for this).  Meeting invites sent via email will be retrieved by Mail.app and automatically added to my iCal calendar (but not added to Sandy, but that’s not hard to achieve manually). 

Any other neat tricks I should try?[tag:mac][tag:osx]

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