That John Martin

I am constantly switching my Mac’s sound output between headphones and speakers, and as a result, am constantly bitching about having to open up the Sound control panel, switch to the Output tab, change the setting, then sometimes switch to the particular app, open up Preferences, switch to the Sound tab, and make the same change again.

And then along came SoundSource. It took exactly 0.24 seconds of Googling to find and not much longer to install. And now I have a nice dropdown in my menubar.

And for bonus points, the license had very plain “What that said” explanations below each section.

Happy days.

Having trouble seeing underscores in Terminal.app? Bump the font height slightly above 1 in the font dialog in the Terminal Inspector (accessible via Command-I or the “Windows Settings…” menu item).

Synergy is a brilliant little software utility that allows you to share a keyboard, mouse and clipboard between not just machines but operating systems. It runs on OS X, Windows, and Linux, and it’s open source. Dave from Freshview has a short clip demoing it on his triple monitor setup.