Monthly Archives: August 2008

Mac OS: Stop desktop cluttering caused by ThunderBird

As you’re reading these lines, you’ve been probably affected by annoying bug in ThunderBird related to dealing with attachments.
I’ve published this post just to sum up my google findings on one place – details described f.e. here.

Scenario is easy – when you open an attachment directly and have a helper application assigned (like MS Word for doc), given file also gets stored automatically on desktop. There is no option effectively affecting this behavior currently available , so your desktop can get quite messy after a while.

You have two options here

  1. Auto delete of temporarily opened files on ThunderBird exit

    Create and set to true browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit in TB configuration

  2. Change the download directory via different application

    Safari 2.x should work for Mac OS 10.4, whereas Camino works for Mac OS 10.5

Triky pro zvladnuti pretizeni a stresu

Tady je par triku, ktere funguji v mem pripade. Muzete zkusit.

  • za zadnych okolnosti neswitchujte kontext – vzdy se snazte vas ukol dodelat pred prepnutim do emailoveho klienta, rss ctecky ci browseru. To plati i pro pripad, kdy napriklad probiha dlouhy build ci kopirovani a vase interakce neni nutna. Tuto chvili vyhradte premysleni o tasku a akci, ktera bude nasledovat az se zase dostanete k veslu.
  • pokud mate solo ukol, nenechte se vyrusovat okolim – toto souvisi s predchozim bodem. Nasadte si sluchatka, pustte si oblibenou hudbu a neodpovidejte dokud nebudete hotovi. V krajnim pripade (pokud muzete) zustante zakutani doma a vubec nechodte do office.
  • najdete si vase nejefektivnejsi hodiny a ten zbytek venujte ukolum, pri kterych nemusite prilis premyslet ci relaxaci. Treba pro me jsou nejplodnejsi ranni hodiny, klidne se mi stane, ze se probudim ve 4 rano, pracuju 2 hodky a pak si jdu zase lehnout. Ten zasedly Skype a zadne telefonaty jsou pro me jak prazdna dalnice.
  • Najdete si dobre tooly pro spravu informaci s rychlou navigaci a vyhledavanim. Nedavno jsem zacal pouzivat Freemind a Evernote. Stalici jsou desktop searche, v mem pripade QuickSilver a GoogleDesktop.
  • Nezacnete resit zadany ukol ihned po zadani, a take neodpovidejte na email ihned po prijeti. Nejenze se nejspise prohresujete proti pravidlu 1, ale navic jite kasi horkou tak, jak se uvarila a to se nema.