September 2009
13 posts
Filed under: Tips and tricks
The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to Dictionary.app), it opens a new window. And then another. And then another. This might be handy if the window bar was updated to show the word that you had looked up, but it doesn’t, meaning that the extra windows are...
Force Snow Leopard's Dictionary.app to reuse... →
Filed under: Tips and tricks
The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to…
Drobo Dashboard can show used/available space →
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
Drobo was a bit of a life-saver for me. Before Drobo I had about 13 different hard drives storing different kinds of data (music on one, video on…
“Under Leopard, you drag thumbnails from a PDF document open in Preview into the...”
– Combining PDF pages in Snow Leopard | Mac OS X | Mac 911 | Macworld
Change the behavior of the iTunes zoom button in 9 →
Filed under: iTunes, Terminal Tips
For me, one of the most welcome new features of iTunes 9 was the restoration of sanity to the way that iTunes responded to the zoom button. I had…
Weather Widget with time, updated for Snow Leopard →
Filed under: Hacks, Widget Watch, Snow Leopard
Back in 2005, John Gruber wrote about Hacking Apple’s Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update.
I was disappointed to…
I started importing my TUAW articles here…
…under the assumption that if you like these “mini tips” you might like the bigger pieces that I write as well.
(TUAW being “The Unofficial Apple Weblog” which is an actual Mac website that has hired me to do some writing for them.)
I’m not convinced it’s a good or bad idea. I’m open to your thoughts/suggestions (although, in my usual style, I may...
Slim your 1Password 3 Backups →
Filed under: Software, TUAW Tips
1Password is one of my very favorite and most essential Mac utilities. Combined with Dropbox, I can have all of my login information synced to…
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Turn Desktop On/Desktop Off
I use this one all the time when I either don’t want to look at the clutter on my Desktop or want to take a clean screenshot.
Turn Desktop off
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop FALSE
killall Finder
(Be sure that Finder isn’t doing anything important at the time, like copying a bunch of files from one place to the next.)
You can still continue to save files...
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defaults write com.apple.screencapture location...
I like putting my screenshots in one central location so I can later access them from any computer. For this I use Dropbox which already has a ~/Photos folder. I make a sub-folder in it and then do
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Dropbox/Photos/Screenshots
NOTE: You may have to logout or restart your Mac to get it to re-read the new setting. Restarting the Finder does NOT...
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