Quick Look has a hidden feature that is not enabled by default, and can only be enabled through Terminal. Essentially, when ‘X-Ray mode’ is turned on, Quick Looking a folder will show, in a way, the contents of the folder.
Instead of just seeing the regular folder icon in Quick Look, the folder icon will be semi-transparent, with previews of the folder’s contents visible in the Quick Look window, as seen in the image at right. What’s more, the preview images will rotate automatically, moving through each item in the folder (click the image to see a movie of the animation).
To ...(continue read) tags: 10.5, 10.6, hidden feature, preview, Snow LeopardAbout Coda
Apple Design Awards 2007 winner! So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, adjusting SQL in a Terminal, using a CSS editor and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we declared. “And much cooler.”
Coda is a unique web development environment that offers a complete file browser (both locally and remotely), publishing, full-featured text editor, WebKit-based preview, CSS editor with visual tools, full-featured ...(continue read) tags: HTML, PHP, programming, Text EditorIf you want to quickly change your sound input device, simply Option-Click the Sound menu at the top of your screen to enable an alternate menu pulldown list of input devices.
This trick is much faster than launching into the System Preferences and adjusting from microphone to line-in audio source. As far as I know this is new to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. tags: 10.6, audio, Snow Leopard, system preferencesLast week, Intel demoed a new interconnect technology called “Light Peak” which promises to be a flexible high performance optical connector:
Intel just showed off a glimpse of the future: Light Peak, an optical interconnect for mobile devices that can run as fast as 10Gbps. That’s fast enough to do everything from storage to displays to networking, and it can maintain those speeds over 100-meter runs, which is pretty astounding. Intel says the idea is to drastically reduce the number of connectors on mobile devices, which should allow them to get even smallerThe technology ...(continue read) tags: hardwareIn Snow Leopard’s PDF Preview,
if you click Control – or Right-click on a PDF preview and change the display option (e.g. from Single Page Continuous to Two Pages), this setting does not stick between launches. The next time you open a PDF, Preview reverts back to the original display setting.
However, if you change the display setting from the menu (View » PDF Display) the setting does stick, and becomes the new default for viewing PDFs in Preview. tags: 10.6, previewI’ve been going through my iPhoto library trying to tag all the faces, which can be a time consuming task when you have a large library. But I found one small shortcut to help get rid of faces that keep popping up for people you don’t know.
iPhoto 09 Faces
When browsing a specific person in Faces, at the bottom of the window it makes suggestions of other faces that may be the same person. After clicking the Confirm Name button, you’ll be able to:confirm (click or drag-select)
deny (Option-click or Option-drag-select)
name (Control-click to see the pop-up menu)the face, ...(continue read) tags: photos, picturesToday Apple released a new iTunes 9.0.1 update for MacOS X and Windows systems. iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes.
In iTunes 9, if you wanted the miniature iTunes player window, you had to hold the Option key while clicking the green button. As of iTunes 9.0.1, the pre-iTunes 9 behavior has returned—clicking the green button switches to the miniature player mode. (Option-clicking the green button now maximizes the window.)
iTunes 9.01
iTunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements, including:Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
Addresses a performance issue ...(continue read) tags: musicDan Frakes goes over some of new hidden features in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
This video will be very useful for new users in Snow Leopard.
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video tags: configuration, preferences, system preferencesTo take a screen capture press Cmd+Shift+4 on your Snow Leopard. You will notice a really useful filenames, instead of just “Picture2.png”
While you hold down Cmd+Shift+4, you can also hit the:Spacebar to drag the selected capture region around the screen.
Shift key to vertically or horizontally lock the capture region.
Option key to expand or reduce the size of the region proportionately.To make things even a bit more confusing, you can combine some of these keystrokes. Shift and the Space Bar together will allow a fixed-size region to be dragged in either a vertical ...(continue read) tags: screen capture, short keysRun the following command in Terminal to see exactly how many of OS X’s extensions are 64-bit and how many are still 32-bit and shows ppc kexts as well.
file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* | perl -nle 'print $1 if /\((.*)\)/' | sort | uniq -c
Above command will take a few seconds to run.
Comparison between 10.5.8 and 10.6.0.
10.5.8109 for architecture i386
106 for architecture ppc
3 for architecture ppc740010.6.0135 for architecture i386
38 for architecture ppc
127 for architecture x86_64You can also look at “Extensions” in the “Software” ...(continue read) tags: 10.6, 64-bit, kernelUsers who want to run the new 64-bit kernel on late-model Macs (pretty much anything released after early 2008) can do so by booting with the 6 and 4 keys held down. If you’re wondering whether your Mac has a 64-bit EFI firmware, you can type this command in Terminal:
# ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
The response will identify the machine as either having 32-bit or 64-bit EFI.
To boot 64-bit kernel every time you boot machine:
1. Print nvram settings
# sudo nvram -p
2. Set boot-args to use 64 bit kernel
# sudo nvram boot-args="arch=x86_64"
Don’t forget to add ...(continue read) tags: 10.6, kernel, Snow LeopardApple released the first dot update of Snow Leopard on Thursday. The 75.1MB update fixes a few minor issues mostly related to the functionality of Mac OS. Here is a complete list of included fixes.Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes ...(continue read) tags: 10.6, Snow LeopardSmart Playlists in iTunes 9 can now be more than just (A and B) or (A or B or C) to build a playlist. Now the rules can be combined and nested. In addition to the plus and minus buttons, there’s a new three-dot (ellipsis-like) button to generate the nested rules. For example, A and (B or C) was previously not possible.
In iTunes 9, you can now do this. First add rule A and set the top “Match” criteria to All. After you have rule A done, click on the three-dot button to get a lower level rule, add rule B and set its applicability pop-up to Any. Finally, click the plus sign and ...(continue read) tags: playlist |
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