Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Checking out Typinator

By Josh | Published: October 25, 2009
I know MacHeist was a lot of months ago, and I therefore could have tried it out months ago, but oh well. I’m trying it out now, and the first thing I did was search the Character Viewer for characters I might want to use, but for one reason or another wouldn’t know how to [...]
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Snow Leopard

By Josh | Published: September 2, 2009
So, Erwin posted his first impressions list, which reminded me that I’ve done one of my own from time to time, so here goes. I didn’t do a regular upgrade, and even then I don’t really remember how long it took last time,1 so I have no idea if it installed any faster. DiskWarrior seemed [...]
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One Less Leopard Annoyance

By Josh | Published: April 24, 2008
One of my problems with Leopard has been that the way I use Finder stopped working. I set it to “Always open folders in a new window” and hold down option when I want to close the window I start from. This is actually different from the behavior with that preference off — when you open [...]
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Still Clueless

By Josh | Published: February 14, 2008
I still don’t get it. Okay, now that I think of it, there are two things I don’t get. First, I was so sure the “Translucent Menu Bar” checkbox would be under “Appearance” that I thought something was wrong when I didn’t find it there. That being said, I also still don’t get the big [...]
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ThisSpace

By Josh | Published: November 8, 2007
One of the first things that happened to me in Spaces that irked me was its auto-switching to another space when I didn’t want it to. Sure, that’s probably what I’d want it to do a lot of the time, but if I’m trying to open a new window for an app that already has [...]
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iTerm/TextMate Here

By Josh | Published: November 8, 2007
Yes, again. Inspired by other solutions to the same problems, here are updated versions of these scripts. The primary difference is that they’re based on Apple’s droplet sample, so you can either click on them (for the current directory) or drop stuff on them and it’ll work either way. So, why don’t I just use [...]
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More Little Things

By Josh | Published: November 3, 2007
The Dock is way too fucking dark. The glass shelf doesn’t thrill me either, but at least it’s a subtle eyesore. Holy crap Spotlight is faster. I used to use Google Desktop based solely on its speed — now it actually has to compete on features. Did I mention that the Dock is too fucking dark? [...]
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The Little Things

By Josh | Published: November 1, 2007
Having played around with Leopard for about a day now, here are some of the little details I’ve noticed: Arrows no longer wrap the selected app in the app switcher; if you wanted to switch to the last app in that list, you used to be able to hit left-arrow twice after command-tab. Now, perhaps [...]
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Leopard Open Source

By Josh | Published: October 31, 2007
I hadn’t seen any mention of this yet when I started my Leopard upgrade, but Apple has added the source code for the open-source parts of Leopard on the Darwin source site. And yes, Virginia, that includes the kernel.
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