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I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working.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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Screen Capture in Snow Leopard
Helpful article!! To take a screen capture press Cmd+Shift+4 on your Snow Leopard. […]
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copying from from OS X to a Samba server fails, using Cyberduck instead
The operation can’t be completed, because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. Did you come across that error message before? I did, more than once. Today I started using Cyberduck to copy over to the other side, but now as SFTP server. That’s almost as nice, at least it looks like…
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Snow Leopard’s “Finder” show sizes of all small network files as 1MB
Googled for this phenomenon, and it looks quite well-discussed already.
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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.