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Thursday May 17, 2012. 04:30 PM
I love TextWrangler, and I have a Mac at work and one at home, but often do coding on both. I set up a system using Dropbox so both my preferences and my Application Support files sync so I always have my stationery files and the same settings, wherever I am. Run the...
Wednesday May 16, 2012. 04:30 PM
When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever. As you may...
Tuesday May 15, 2012. 04:31 PM
As SSDs become more common, and prices drop, more and more people are either buying Macs with SSDs, or installing them in their Macs. Personally, I started using an SSD with the first MacBook Air in 2008, and bought my current Mac - a Mac mini, purchased in 2011 - with an...
These AppleScripts are related to this hint. Both can already be found in the replies to the hint topic post, but I'm resubmitting them so that they will appear together. The first is an improved version of the original AppleScript which presents a dialog box from which a...
iTunes Smart Playlists don't offer a criteria to find tracks which have been partially played. While 'Last Skipped' is an option, this track property may not be set if the track wasn't actually skipped and was merely stopped. However, if a track's 'Remember playback...
Monday May 14, 2012. 04:30 PM
I recently tried to drag from Safari's Downloads popup and found that if you drag from the icon of the downloaded file, you can move it where you want. Click on an icon in the Downloads popup and drag it to any folder, or even onto a Dock icon to launch a file you've just...
If you press the Option key, then press certain dedicated keys on the standard Apple keyboard, preference panes will open. This works for Mission Control (Option-F3 or Option-F4), Displays (Option-F1 or Option-F2), and Sound (Option-F10, Option-F11 or Option-F12). The F keys ...
Friday May 11, 2012. 04:30 PM
I use Terminal everyday, and I find it a good idea to log everything I you. It makes it much easier to undo your mistakes when you know what those mistakes were. Here's how I do this: Open Terminal's preferences. Go to Settings, then Shell. You can choose here to run a...
Thursday May 10, 2012. 04:30 PM
Combining some findings from a recent hint and on Apple's forums, I've finally found a way to disable the annoying rubber-band scrolling in most applications. All the credit goes to those guys as they did the initial investigation. It works in applications like: Finder...
Wednesday May 9, 2012. 04:30 PM
If you use Lion Server, and its wiki server, you may find it useful to use custom URL protocols for internal documents and links. Apple has published a technical note explaining how to do this. This document explains how to create the necessary configuration file -...
This hint solves a long standing problem when playing classical music on an iPhone. When using the iPhone Music app (iOS 5.1), the full entry (e.g. name of artist, album or song title) for an item can be too long to be displayed. Tap and hold entry to see the full entry pop...
Tuesday May 8, 2012. 04:30 PM
Mac OS X Lion introduced iOS-style scrolling elasticity. Do you think it's annoying, and it slows you down while working in Xcode? Here's how to remove it. Copy this Xcode plugin to the following directory: ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/ ...
Monday May 7, 2012. 04:30 PM
In the Finder, when working in Column View, if you select a multipage PDF you can scroll up and down in the document. This is much faster than using the small arrow controls, and appears to work with any input device that can scroll. [kirkmc adds: Several points. First, in...
Friday May 4, 2012. 04:30 PM
I was recently asked to see if I could copy over the custom page sizes from a Snow Leopard machine over to a Lion machine. While finding the right file in ~/Library/Preferences (com.apple.print.custompapers.plist) wasn't so difficult, it turned out that the Snow Leopard...
Thursday May 3, 2012. 04:30 PM
Note: An updated version of this script (in fact two new scripts) has been posted as a new hint. These new scripts take into account many of the comments posted below. Please see the new hint to find the improved version. Here's an AppleScript that presents a dialog box...
Wednesday May 2, 2012. 04:30 PM
When focus is in the text entry field in an iChat chat window, holding option and using your up and down arrow keys cycles through the previous messages you've sent. This is very similar to how Terminal lets you cycle through previous command just using the up and down arrow ...
Tuesday May 1, 2012. 04:30 PM
Apple does not provide any way to count the number of characters in a selected text. Fortunately, you can create your own very easily using Automator. Launch Automator and create a new Service. Add the Run AppleScript script action, then paste the following code: on run...
Monday April 30, 2012. 04:30 PM
My right shoulder had been hurting lately, due to the movement necessary to reach my trackpad. I was using a standard, wired Apple keyboard with the number pad on the right, and my Magic Trackpad was to the right of that, making me reach pretty far to access it. So, I set...
Friday April 27, 2012. 04:30 PM
]Google Chrome keeps older versions of its web browser causing it to balloon in size. I noticed that the Google Chrome App on my Mac was 1.2 GB. That seemed a bit portly for a web browser. Upon looking into the app's bundle, by right-clicking and choosing Show Package...
Thursday April 26, 2012. 04:30 PM
It's time for a new poll. Following Apple's quarterly earnings call, where the company announced selling 4 million Macs in the last quarter (see Macworld's discussion of Apple's earnings), this could be a good time to find out which model Mac OS X Hints readers prefer. Will...
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