Quick Tip: fixing the "other account" Mac App Store issue

I like the Mac App Store. I've purchased a lot of apps since it opened, and I dig the centralized update system. I've been having this issue on my MacBook Air, though, where trying to update an instal

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Quick Tip: clean up your MultiMarkdown tables

The table syntax in MultiMarkdown is intuitive and can be really fast to work with. Much faster than coding HTML tables, to be sure. Unless you're pretty religious about your spacing, though, the plai

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Quick Tip: throttling parallel batch processes in Terminal

Parallel Planes ClipartItQuick tips are random posts regarding something I discovered on my way to something bigger. They usually get longer than "quick" would imply, for which I refuse to apologize.

It starts out with mdfin

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Quick tip: AppleScript application toggle

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From my hat full of stupid Mac tricks:

I use a lesser-known (and very old) program called Spark for defining most of the keyboard shortcuts on my system. I have a shortcut for every one of my most

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