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Tue, 05 Oct 2004
Macintosh Tips and Tricks
Here's an update of my Macintosh Tips and Tricks. The contents of this post have been folded into the main file.
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- AB-FOAF Export your address book to FOAF
- OnMyCommandCMshop Add more actions to your command (control-click) menu
- Adium The best (such as it is) multiprotocol IM client for the Mac. Jabber support is horrible
- Paparazzi A neat little utility for taking perfectly sized screenshots of web pages
- Download comment for Safari Store the url of a download in the Finder comments of the downloaded file
- Unicode Checker A useful tool for dealing with Unicode. Also makes itself available via the services menu
- Growl A system wide notification service with command line tools and Python bindings. Supported by Ecto, Adium.
- svnX A standalone installable subversion
- cscreen Set the screen resolution and refresh rate from the command line
- chatmaster Manage iChat and Adium archives
- AntiRSI A very nice app that forces you to take those RSI breaks
- Getting to hidden folders in open/save dialogs
- You need to know how to do this!
- Using iChat to send SMS's to a cell phone
- The advantage of doing this is that the SMS reply goes to the iChat window, not your e-mail mbox
- How to launch a GUI app as root
- If you must, you must
- Nicer separators for Safari Bookmarks
- I'm using Safari a bit more
- Rebuilding the Launch Services Database
- These sorts of hints remind me of Windows...
- How to solve Mail.app index problems Because Mail.app does hang/crash.
- Getting to the console from the login panel
- This is handy when troubleshooting your machine
- You can pipe the output of a shell command to "open -f" to get that output into TextEdit [via Macworld 10/2004 p. 87 ]
- Some of this type of stuff can be done with Quicksilver
- Docklet folders
- Put commonly used folders into the dock for easy access
- Turn on the Safari Debug Menu
- There are a few useful items in the Debug menu - like import/export of bookmarks
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