Category: macOS
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learning from others – a temporary home-worker’s experience
I really enjoyed working with my design profession mate yesterday. He brought his MacBook with him, and I also learned from him, what the MacBook substitute for the scroll-wheel is: a two-finger wiping over the touchpad.
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Timer Utility – i use this on mac os x
http://osx.iusethis.com Alarm clock, countdown timer, and stopwatch. great stuff!!! almost like the iPhone utility
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Photo Booth on OS X
It was time to change the pics on Facebook, Skype etc. again. Wondered how to take a few pics using the MacBook. Finally found Photo Booth. Move the utility’s window to that corner of the screen, where you want your face to look at, otherwise your eyes look into the “wrong” direction. Sounds obvious, I…
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activating the Meta key for the Terminal app under Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working. So I thought, I would let you know, how it really works with Snow Leopard. Here you see the window, that pops up for Terminal’s Preferences menue entry: You can see the Use option as meta…
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a Mac keyboard is so different from a PC keyboard
It really takes me a while to accomodate with all that. Right now I just missed arrow key “accelerators” a lot, and I thought I give a few combinations a try. Guess what! The left and the right arrow key together with the cmd key work like Pos1 and End on a PC keyboard. Try…
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the main Fink web site is down, there is an alternative though (UPDATE)
You can’t reach the main Fink web site right now, but there is an alternative though. 2009-10-28: You can fink again. The main Fink web site is still not available though.
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Safari AdBlocker
Do you think, I am starting a fairy tale here? No, I’m not. Look it up on Apple’s list of public downloads for Mac OS X. The link there is broken (right now), but read it and bend it! It points you to sweetpproductions.com, there you want to look for the Safari AdBlocker (maybe this…
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pipe symbol at Apple keyboard
there is that nice article on where to find the “pipe symbol” / “pipe symbol” on an Apple keyboard. of course nowadays with Snow Leopard or “just” Leopard that’s all different. but it still (with a little fancy and curiousity) helped me finding out, how to get to that thing. in short: System Preferences /…
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my Mac now connects through my UMTS USB modem
I have been using my “XS Stick W12” from 4g-systems.com for almost a year on my EeePC running WinXP and also on my FRITZ!Box 7270. Now I can also make use of it on my Mac Book Pro. Splendid. Looks like 4g-systems.com now sell their current model (XS Stick W14) w/o branding and SIM-lock for…