Why restrict yourself to 9 ?? Greek mythology speaks of the 9 muses.. the sources of inspiration for artists and scientists.. “The Nth muse” is my attempt to acknowledge the fact that there are more, many more than 9 of these..
Aperture iPhoto Sync is an applescript which will sync your Aperture projects/albums to iPhoto, thereby making them available to the rest of iLife apps for you to use. (Yes I know that you can drag and drop Aperture images & create iPhoto albums, but a script sure beats doing this manually!) It syncs masters by creating links in iPhoto library to save space.. and (optionally) syncs up modified versions by exporting them using Aperture’s export presets.
Features
Syncs Masters without copying them – save space !
Syncs modified versions by exporting them from Aperture using selected presets.
Will optionally delete photos from iPhoto albums before syncing – ensuring an exact replica.
Syncs intelligently – ignores ‘Rejects’ and syncs only ‘Select’ of a stack to avoid clutter.
Uses the library that you have configured in Aperture as the the library it imports from.
So.. if you are a GTD fan, and use a Mac, you may have been enticed into using OmniFocus (an awesome GTD app, by the way..). While the folks over at Omnigroup have provided a nice set of scripts to add tasks using Quicksilver, it’s still not that straightforward to add Emails from Entourage to OmniFocus….
Many folks have put together nice scripts (see this thread, on the Omnigroup forums) that will take a set of emails currently selected in Entourage and add them to the OmniFocus Inbox… However, if you use Quicksilver, I’ve extended these scripts so that they will automatically add these emails into the appropriate Project and Context, therby saving you the time and effort of having to go in and clean up your inbox later on..
The RSS Visualizer Screen Saver in Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 is a pretty nifty one… However, in my opinion (and in that of so many others !), it still lacks some functionality – especially being able to specify multiple feeds from which to grab news items… After having searched around on the web for something that would do, I finally bit the bullet and opened up Quartz Composer. The result ? MultiRSS Visualizer…
Greek mythology speaks of the 9 muses.. the sources of inspiration for artists and scientists.. “The Nth muse” is my attempt to acknowledge the fact that there are more, many more than 9 of these.. That one can (and probably should) learn to derive inspiration from a myriad of people, places and happenings around oneself.. That whenever you feel you’ve run out of ideas, try searching for the one tiny little thought that escapes you…; the one glimpse of sheer ingenuity that’s within your reach…; the one muse no one has ever thought of… the “n”th muse !
As I stand back and try to reflect on what I just said, I cant help but think about what prompted me to do this in the first place… Somehow, the idea of sharing my thoughts with the world at large has never appealed to me.. And yet – here I am.. why.. ? Maybe because the act of putting your thoughts down in a coherent fashion lends itself to the yet-more-thought-provoking act of introspection.. Maybe because it forces you to give shape to what has previously always been an amorphous glob of unexplored ideas and feelings… and maybe, in that process, it helps you discover muses you never knew were right there !
