Auto expand columns Finder‘s column view
Posted on Tuesday 19 January 2010
Finder normally doesn‘t remember the width when you double click the column width button. This can be frustrating when you‘re filenames are usually pretty long. There‘s a solution to this. Just press the option key(alt) and drag to the desired width. This expands all the columns to the same size and remembers the width for the next time you open up your Finder window.
The new safari 4 (beta) browser features
Posted on Wednesday 25 February 2009
Yesterday I installed the safari 4.0 beta. The latest safari version works on windows, as well as mac. There are about a 150 features according to Apple. Some are new, some old.
First obvious changes are the top sites and the new tabs. The UI now has a more windows-like feel to it (in a good way :). It has the look and feel of the chrome browser. Opera and other browsers already had something similar to top sites. Top sites is like a 3D gallery of your most visited websites. It monitors changes in websites since your last visit and marks changes by adding a blue star icon in the right hand corner. That way keeping yourself up-to-date was never easier. Too bad it‘s not as responsive as I‘d want it to be, so I won‘t use it as my start page yet.
The new tabs take a bit of getting used to but gains you about 20px of space because the tabs are on top now. The full-page zoom is a cool feature which allows you to zoom in on a page without any loss of quality of the fonts. Images are being upscaled whilst zooming. Another added feature is the cover flow to browse through your favourites. In my opinion this looks fancy but is quite useless.
How to remove all subversion .svn files and folders
Posted on Tuesday 17 February 2009
Recently my cornerstone (a subversion client) got corrupted and I couldn‘t checkout my working copy. So I had to remove all of the .svn folders and files by hand. A very labour-intensive job if your website consists of about 3000 files.
Terminal to the rescue:
just go to your folder, containing all the subversion files, in the terminal and type in:
find . -name ”.svn” -type d -exec rm -rf {} ;
This will search for all the .svn folders and remove them.
Some useful mac shortcuts
Posted on Tuesday 10 February 2009
command option eject: This puts your mac fast to sleep
control shift eject: turns off your screen
command shift 4: I use this to measure pixels, but it‘s intended to make screenshots
command option d: show and hide the dock
Control Eject:Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
Control command D: Looks up a word in the dictionary. simon showed me this one. A reasonably unknown shortcut in my opinion. You can use this shortcut in any Cocoa application (Mac native) like safari and a small tooltip will appear above the word your mouse pointer is hovering. You don‘t need to have the dictionary open so you can easily use this at all times.
Path Finder
Posted on Saturday 7 February 2009
This program is what the Finder on Mac should be like. I just downloaded it yesterday, so I haven‘t really had the time to fully test this application, but it looks promising. Tabbed navigation is a major plus. And the path navigator, which you see on top, is a big help. I‘ve explained in another post, how to display the full path in your Finder. Path Finder also has a Quicksilver-like application. The downside is, the focus has to be on path finder to start the launcher. I hope they‘ll change this in another release. Path Finder also allows split window view. Another cool feature is the drop stack which enables you to drag files in the drop stack, go to the desired folder en dan drag and drop the files there. Normally on Mac, when you press return on a file you can rename it. With path Finder, only the return on the numpad is used to rename files. The other return button opens the file with the associated program. It takes a bit of getting used to, but in the end it‘s a logical way of working.
terminal tips for Finder
Posted on Friday 6 February 2009
Enable path view in Finder:
Because I use so many folders and files, I often find myself lost in my hard drive. To enable the pathview in the Finder just type this in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
after doing this you need to restart your Finder. Do this by typing in:
killall Finder
(mind the capital F)
to disable this, just replace the YES by NO.