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Tag Archives: mac-os-x
Open a file from Terminal with Coda
If you’re like me, you love Coda. Well, you may find the need to open a file, or set of files, from Terminal in Coda. Gregory Tomlinson has created a bash script to let you do just that.
Side note: I’m hoping to one day find the time to update this script to allow me to [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged applications, automation, bash, coda, gregory tomlinson, macintosh, panic, scripting, software, terminal 3 Comments
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard review
The only review of the latest version of Mac OS X you’ll ever need to read, John Siracusa’s review of Snow Leopard.
Chris Clark’s proposal for minimizing windows on Mac OS X
With Snow Leopard comes a markedly better way of handling window minimization into the Dock however Chris Clark feels as though it could be done better. His proposal is to minimize the windows directly behind the application icon on the Dock. I like it.
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Music and photos are not accessible from the Media Browser
If you, like me, recently updated to a new Macintosh – you may have had this issue. It turns out that if you upgrade your version of Mac OS X to the latest version, install the latest iLife 09 updates, and use Migration Assistant to move from your old Mac to your new one – [...]
Tags, the way Apple should have done it
Tags is a UI for adding tags to Spotlight on Mac OS X. I think Apple should have made it this way from the beginning.
Posted in Links Also tagged apple, applications, dave weinberger, everything-is-miscellaneous, searching, software, spotlight, tagging, tags, taxonomy, ui Leave a comment
Mac OS X 10.5.5 and Mail.app’s speed
Today while starting up the Macbook and sipping my coffee, I noticed Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.5 as a free software update.
Posted in Notes Also tagged email, gmail, imap, mail.app, osx, performance, software update 2 Comments
Search Google Docs and Bookmarks with Spotlight using Precipitate
A quick, easy way to force Spotlight to recognize your documents and bookmarks on Google's Web services.
Posted in Links Also tagged apple, bookmarks, cloud computing, docs, google, google code, precipitate, preference pane, searching, spotlight Leave a comment
How I’m using Spaces on Mac OS X
A quick overview of the updates to Spaces in 10.5.3 of Leopard and how I'm currently using it to separate my tasks.
Turning on Address Book syncing to Gmail on Mac OS X 10.5.3 without an iPhone or iPod touch
Sync your Mac Address Book with Gmail, on Mac OS X 10.5.3, whether you have an iPhone / iPod touch or not.
Comic Life Magiq – from plasq
The plasq team releases Comic Life Magiq, an entire reworking of Comic Life with more cowbell!
Posted in Links Also tagged applications, comic life, comic life magiq, leopard, macintosh, plasq, software Leave a comment
Leopard’s Spotlight window isn’t as good as Tiger’s was
I do not like Leopard's "show all" Spotlight window. I liked Tiger's though.
Posted in Notes Also tagged apple, chris-fehnel, leopard, macintosh, screenshots, skitch, tiger, usability 30 Comments
Leopard wish list – Part four: Finder
The fourth part in the Leopard wish list series dealing with some improvements I'd like to see in the Finder.
Leopard wish list – Part three: iChat
Next to Mail and Safari, iChat is probably the application I have open the most. For an application that I use throughout the day, I have a hard time finding fault with it. But I can try...
Posted in Notes Also tagged adium, aim, apple, audio-hijack-pro, buddy-list, finder, garageband, ichat, imovie, iphoto, itunes, leopard, macintosh, mail, osx, safari, soundflower, spotlight, wish-list 10 Comments
Leopard wish list – Part two: Mail
Mail is one of the most used applications on the Mac OS. As such it sometimes is subject to more scrutiny than other applications. I take a light-approach with this wish list, though some of the up-coming features of Leopard Mail do not look enticing to me.
Leopard wish list – Part one: Safari
A very short wish list for the next version of Safari - which is to be pre-bundled with Mac OS X Leopard.
My first letter to Steve Jobs
I wrote a letter to Steve Jobs in early-2004.
Posted in Notes Also tagged apple, imac-g4, letter, macintosh, pc, repost, steve-jobs Leave a comment
Installing Ruby and RubyGems (including Rails and mySQL) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard