Tumbletip December 6, 2008
See the path to where you are in the Finder window’s title bar: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES. Via TUAW
Tumbletip May 8, 2008
To get a grave accent on a Mac running OS X, press Option + `, then the letter you want to accentify. I’m hoping that by writing this here I’ll finally wodge the technique into my brain.
« »Tumblelink March 13, 2008
Rid yourself of the wildly annoying warning that pops up when opening newly downloaded applications in Leopard.
« »Tumbletip February 28, 2008
You can burn a .iso image to a CD from the command line like so: hdiutil burn yourimage.iso. So much less faff than Disk Utility it’s unbelievable.
Tumbletip February 18, 2008
In 10.5.2, you can fix the annoyingly app-centric way Spaces works:
defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
From Mac OS X Hints.
« »Tumblelink December 11, 2007
Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Looks tasty.
« »Tumbletip November 15, 2007
To see an email attachment in QuickView, er, quickly, just hit Command+Y.
Tumblelink September 5, 2007
Weblogging editor thingy MarsEdit 2.0 has lots of lovely new features, including very slick integration with Flickr. (It might just tempt me away from the TextMate blogging bundle.)
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Tumblelink January 9, 2007
SonicSwap Boink does a variety of iTunesy things, but I’m using it to grab cover art for albums not in the iTMS. Works well.
« »Tumblelink January 8, 2007
OmniGrowl is an expandable framework for sending Growl Notifications for applications that do not natively support Growl. Pretty notifications from iCal ahoy!
« »Tumbletip July 22, 2006
To control the menu bar with your keyboard, hit Command+F1 to turn on Full Keyboard Access, then use Command+F2 to highlight the menu bar. It only works on the left-hand side, so no access to your menu bar widgets, sadly.
« »Tumblelink July 16, 2006
In the spirit of WriteRoom, here’s a haxie that lets you get rid of the Menu Bar in OSX. Haxies are a little suspect, so proceed with caution.
« »Tumbletip July 12, 2006
If you want OS X applications to check your spelling against a proper English dictionary, rather than an American English one: hit Command+Shift+: then select ‘British English’ in the ‘Dictionary’ dropdown menu. (Nota bene: you need to do this in every application in which you employ the spelling checker.) Thank you codeman38.
« »Tumblelink April 28, 2006
Locomotive: In one self-contained application, it gives you a fully functional Rails development platform.
In other words, it’s MAMP for Rails. Talking of which, here are some instructions on getting Locomotive talking to MAMP’s MySQL.)
« »Tumblelink April 11, 2006
Jumpcut: Minimalist Clipboard Buffering for OS X–a new version. After Quicksilver, this is the app I use the most. It stores a clipboard history and lets you paste past items via a command key combination. Absolutely essential.
« »Tumbletip January 24, 2006
In TextEdit, and other Cocoa apps, when editing a rich-text document, you can trigger a very basic outliner mode by hitting Option+Tab. Handy for taking notes with a bit of structure. (via Daring Fireball)
« »Tumbletip December 20, 2005
Move windows in OS X without changing focus: hold down the Command key, then drag the titlebar of an unfocused window. (Nicked from Projectionist: A tumblelog)
« »Tumbletip December 15, 2005
If you unmount your external hard drive from time to time, rather than unplugging it and plugging it in again, you can do something like this: when the drive is mounted, do disktool -l and make a note of the number of your drive (probably something like disk1s9), then, when you need to mount it again, just do disktool -m disk1s9. (Probably very obvious, but I didn’t know about disktool until just now…)
Tumblelink December 8, 2005
Snö is a useless application that makes snow fall over your desktop. Snö is the Swedish name for Snow. (It is also a pretty screensaver).
« »Tumblelink November 12, 2005
UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look & feel as one. – I am almost moved to tears by what this has done to my computer. Thanks Bonaldi!
« »Tumblelink November 10, 2005
Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. – they’re not doing to badly, either. It’s very fast, and has a nice sidebar feature for accessing bookmarks, history, downloads. (Bit flakey when it comes to forms, though.)
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