OS X / Unix Matt | 26 Jul 2007
Reindex message database for Mail.app
If you’ve got a huge mailbox in Apple’s Mail.app program, this line to be used in Terminal may help. It will rebuild the index used by the sqlite database used by the application. There is no need to run this less than every new hundred megs of mail or so … even that’s overkill. And if you don’t have at least 500 megs, I doubt you’d notice any difference. But if you’re one of those folks that Mail.app is just crawling for, this may be the answer:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
Misc Matt | 26 Jul 2007
ColorfulTabs for Firefox
A recent episode of dl.tv pointed me to the ColorfulTabs firefox extension. This extension simply colors the background of each new tab you open in a different color. The color palate is chosen from pastels that allow the black title text in the tab to show up well. At first when I installed it yesterday part of me felt like it was a gimmick. After using this for the day, I really enjoy it. When I’ve got a couple dozen tabs open, I’m able to find an older one with an obfuscated title name much quicker. That extra mental association with the color of the tab helps.
