Category: Mac
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“drag and drop” and the cmd-key
My Situation: 2 finders open, one pointing to a local disk, the other to a remote disk. If you drag (using the cmd-key) exactly one file from that “local finder” to the “remote finder”, the meaning of the operation is “move”. If you drag (using the cmd-key) more than one file from that “local finder” to the…
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peeking and poking Google Chrome
Is there an “ordinary way” to get the “extensions” listed, or is this pseudo-URL “the ordinary way“: chrome://extensions/? (Now, that I wrote of it here, I can finally close that tab, as I was really worried to forget it again. BTW: of course also this list is made far nicer then everything (at least) I can…
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what’s the right Unix-ish software and hardware in 2010?
In 1994 I had no doubt: it’s a PC with some Linux distro on it. And changing my mind was out of the question until not so long ago. Now in 2010 I am doing things on a Samsung 17″ notebook running some openSUSE Linux, and I am doing things on a MacBook Pro with…
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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I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working.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…