
Other files are accessed on-demand from the cloud, taking no disk space. Synchronization to the cloud takes place automatically when you’re back online. Choose files for offline access and work without an internet connection. ExpanDrive connects cloud storage to every application on your computer including Office 365, Photoshop, and VS Code.

Don’t bother with an extra app just to move data around. ExpanDrive adds cloud storage like Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, SFTP (SSH), Box, OneDrive and Sharepoint to Finder and Explorer. Seamless access to cloud storage from any within any application. If your usage of Mac OS X is the slightest bit “technical” then you should do yourself the favor of getting familiar with the extremely powerful shell environment.Įven if you already know a dozen scripting languages far more expressive than the shell, there are still contexts in which the shell is just better suited for the job, and understanding the POSIX environment is knowledge that is very valuable even outside the shell.The Smartest Way to Connect to the Cloud. James Edward Gray has a review of From Bash to Z Shell which sounds like just the book you want to pick up, quoting from his review: I’ve already noticed dramatic differences.

I’m using shell loops at the command-line now to process many files at once I actually understand shell quoting and when to use which types of quotes and escapes to get the desired effect I can easily strip off a file extension or get a directory name from a full path when I need one I make constant use of the command history now whether I’m searching for a past command, correcting a typo, or just pulling a single argument out of a previous command for reuse in a new command and I’ve written a few shell functions to provide shortcuts to my common tasks. Hans-Jörg Bibiko decided he couldn’t wait for a real scripting API (i.e. allowing you to remote control TextMate) and wrote TMTOOLS, a shell command that works as a mini interpreter where the commands are all TextMate actions.

You can find the help file for TMTOOLS here and his latest mailing list letter about TMTOOLS here.

Speaking of hacking, Ciarán Walsh (maintainer of the PHP and SQL bundles, and contributor extraordinaire) recently started a blog with several TM hacks, for example to make the project drawer show Finder labels or Subversion status.Īlso on his blog is a glyph input manager which add the functionality mentioned in the multi-stroke key bindings post but which does not require you to remember the arcane multi-stroke key bindings (Leopard users have a look at the release notes).
