1. Download the Tube Map pdf from TFL
2. Save it somewhere you won’t delete it, eg ~/Documents/
3. Spotlight search for a tube map, eg Command-space, Tufnell Park

Spotlight will open the map with the Tufnell Park highlighted! So now you know where it is and what line to get.

OS X is awesome.

The Last.fm client has a number of helper apps. These helper apps don’t link to QtGui so would normally not get a dock icon. However, since Leopard everything seems to get a dock icon by default if you put in the Contents/MacOS directory of your bundle.

There are two solutions that we found for this problem.

1. Bundlise the binary

   This is more packaging work and feels lame. You can cheat and prevent having to copy your shared libraries into the new bundle using symlinks, ie:

   $ path=helper.app/Contents/MacOS/ mkdir -p $path && cd $path
   $ ln -s ../../../helper .
   $ vim ../info.plist
   

2. A symlink from resources

   cd your.app/Contents/Resources/
   ln -s ../MacOS/yourapp .
   

   Launching the symlink will run the application in the background without a dock icon.

Any other solutions? Please write them below.

Follows a list of tweaks for OS X I found necessary for a CLI user like me.

Better VIM

• Edit ~/.vimrc
• syntax on
set autoindent
set smartindent
set ts=4
set backspace=indent,eol,start


The cryptic last line makes backspace work how you would expect.

Coloured ls Output

• Edit ~/.profile
• export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

Improved Profile

• Edit ~/.profile
• export HISTSIZE=10000
  export HISTFILESIZE=10000
  export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
  export EDITOR=vim

  alias la="ls -a"
  alias l="ls -la"
  alias ..="cd .."
  alias ps="ps -cU `whoami`"

  GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]”
  RESET=”\[\033[0m\]”

  export PS1=”$GREEN\W$RESET\$ ”
export PS2=’> ‘

The ps alias gives a much better output with dependency information and all that jazz. Try it. The .. alias is also a huge time-saver