How to make you own Cloud-Synced Task Manager

Requirement:

• Task Warrior
• Dropbox

Original Computer:

[(~dropbox) means your dropbox folder]
mv .task ~dropbox/task
ln -s ~dropbox/task .task

New Computer:

[After synced Dropbox...]
rm -rf .task
ln -s ~dropbox/task .task

COOL, my command-line version of wunderlist~~~

pbpaste & pbcopy in Linux

People who are using Mac OS X Terminal may will use these two useful commands: pbcopy & pbpaste, with them you could access your clipboard from the command line.

Recently, I've switched to Linux Mint from Mountain Lion, and I didn't find any alternatives to these two commands, but I found a closet way to implement them: xclip




xclip, you can say it is the clipboard for command line, but the best thing is, it could access the system clipboard in your desktop environment, so I decided to make two command by alias, and make them works just like on Mac OS X.

alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard -i"
alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -o"

xclip with -i option will receive input from stdin, and store them in your selection(in here, it's clipboard).

xclip with -o option do output the string you just stored in the selection(clipboard).

So, that's it, they works just like under Mac OS X.

Problem of "Mac OS applications didn't remember your password anymore"a

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I encountered a problem that every applications those requires user to login couldn't remember the password I entered, selecting "Remember me" or "Automatically login" is not working.

I installed my Mac OS X via clean install, I didn't why I encountered this problem, maybe it caused by existing two version of Mac OS X in my Macbook.

At first, I tried to delete all keychains in the login keychain, so I opened "Keychain Access", and switched to "Login keychain", selected and ready to delete all the items in login keychain, but failed.

it seems like the keychain items have the wrong keychain format, so we need to delete keychain items manually.

the keychain files is located at ~/Library/Keychains

Just follow the instructions:

1. open your terminal
2. cd ~/Library/Keychains
3. rm login.keychain
4. randomly open a program which require login to use like Evernote, logout and login, you will see the request to "reset login keychain to default", select "Yes", now everything about password storage will work like a charm.

Cool.

Box.com SDK for Python

The logo I made for the box.com SDK for Python

I just built the Python SDK of Box.com v2 REST API for fun on this Fri, it is the first SDK I built, before this, I never implement any SDK, since there is no chance to build it, the service I'm developing with already has good SDKs for their developer service, like Facebook, Dropbox, Plurk, Google Plus .. blah.


Fortunately, Box.com just changed their API to version second, with the RESTful feature, and still in the development, so they didn't implement any SDK for their new API, even the documentation doesn't follow the real situation of their API, so I just made one.


Github link: https://github.com/littleq0903/box-python-sdk