Select text quickly by double tapping a word. Or triple tap to select a paragraph. #iphone
Select text quickly by double tapping a word. Or triple tap to select a paragraph. #iphone
Restart your iPhone by holding the home and sleep button simultaneously.
iPhone tip: Almost every image can be saved to the Camera Roll. Tap and hold on image in, like, Safari for a dialog with options.
iPhone tip: Hold shift, don’t release your finger, drag to a letter and make quick caps.
iPhone tip: Double tap the shift key for CAPS LOCK.
Ever wanted to un-minimize a window with the keyboard? Hold ⌥⌘ while the application switcher (⌘⇥) is active.
If you never use “Recent Applications” from the menu. Turn them off completely under Appearance in System Preferences, but be careful: Recent Documents means recent documents in an app. Turn them off and none of your apps will show that menu entry under File.
OS X’s scroll bars have a nifty feature. They can either be set to scroll page-wise or jump straight to the point where they were clicked. Change the default behavior in System Preferences under Appearance.
WARNING: You could lose your entire keyboard and mouse as input! Please, make a backup before proceeding!!!
This hint requires the Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 to be installed!
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kextContents and open Info.plistIOKitPersonalitiesWSTrackpadSomething3 you’ll find an entry named TrackpadThreeFingerDrag copy that entry.After the restart you should be able to see Three Finger Drag in System Preferences under Trackpad.
When away from your machine activate the screen saver or turn the screen off. (See last tip!)
Extra tip: ⇧⌃⏏ turns off the screen, the screen saver can be configured in the System Preferences under Exposé & Spaces → Active Screen Corners.
I don’t like other people to use my computer without my permission when I’m away. Go to System Preferences → General and activate “Require password x minutes after sleep or screen saver begins”.
Speaking of Firewall: Configure how incoming connections are handled or turn Stealth Mode on in the Advanced settings.
Are you in a public network, like your university campus? Turn on your Firewall! Open System Preferences and go to Security → Firewall and click on Start.
Like yesterday Exposé and Dashboard can be activated using additional shortcuts. I, personally, prefer using ⌘F1 for All windows and so forth.
Preview: I use Preview (the OS X built-in program…) to make pictures transparent quickly. Preview has a tool named “Instant Alpha”.
Active Screen Corners are much more useful when they aren’t activated accidentally. Hold down ⇧, ⌘ or ⌥ while the popup is active to assign a shortcut, e.g. ⌘ Start Screen Saver.
Pear Note by Useful Fruit Software.
This guy had a very great idea. He made a web player that acts like his app. Awesome idea!
According to the article ScreenFlow is the best one. Camtasia comes on place 5. The site claims that even my old friend Snapz Pro X is better than Camtasia. That is a bit surprising!
The person doesn’t even list iShowU HD nor iShowU itself. I’m not aware if he/she is aware this, often recommended, app even exists.
- Screen Flow – Simply the best, most robust application for creating screencasts at an affordable price.
- SnapZpro – While not as many features of Screen Flow, more affordable and easy to use.
- Jing – One of the more popular free applications for recording screencasts (unpaid version saves as a swf file).
- Screenjelly – Probably the most user-friendly site to use for recording video and uploading to a number of sites.
- Camtasia – Great application for Windows, similar to Screen Flow.
- Screenr – Excellent free site for recording screens with an iMovie type interface.
- ScreenCastle – One of the best and easiest ways to record a screen and share or embed with others.
- Sequence – Very affordable Mac application for creating screencasts with the ability to draw or comment.
- Screenium – A nice Mac application at a nice price.
- Screen Flick – A Mac application with many export features.
Do’s and don’ts for screencasts: This video obviously has no sound. There’s a separate video (with voice) in the related section.
The screencaster writes “You are supposed to play both videos at the same time”
Some really awesome neat Terminal commands.
For instance opensnoop:
sudo opensnoop
sudo opensnoop -p PID
sudo opensnoop -f /etc/passwd
or the commands to interact with the OS X clipboard pbcopy and pbpaste:
grep 'search term' largeFile.txt | pbcopy
pbpaste | sed 's/ /%20/g'
And I really like these:
man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
MANWIDTH=160 MANPAGER='col -bx' man $@ | mate
Great for any .profile or .bash_profile.
The Minimize Effect in OS X has actually 3 effects, not two. Run:
defaults write com.apple.Dock mineffect suck
killall Dockto use the Suck Effect instead of Genie or Scale. To switch back to either effect. Simply go to your Docks’ preferences and choose a different minimizing effect.
The Snap to Grid behavior can be set with ⌘J while the desktop is active. To temporarily disable the default hold ⌘ while dragging an item.
Show Quit Finder menu item:
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES
killall Finder
Revert with:
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool NO
killall Finder
iPhoto can handle multiple libraries. Simply hold ⌥ while starting the app. A dialog will come up and ask whether you want to create a new library or choose another library.
Every file can be used as “template”. Hit ⌘I and enable Stationary pad in the Get Info dialog.
To show hidden Files in Finder. Run:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
(Followed by killall Finder)
Rever:
defaults delete com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles
or
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
One of the first ;) screencasts. Oh nostalgy!
To get the list view back in Stacks run:
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES
Afterwards killall Dock.
To revert back to the normal behavior run:
defaults delete com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack
To create a Recent Items Stack in your Dock run the following Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
After that run killall Dock.
To remove just drag the Stack out of your Dock.
MercuryMover by Helium Foot Software.
The “window management” market on the Mac seem to have exploded over the last couple of months, but I still prefer MercuryMover for one particular reason.
Almost none of the other tools are as precise as MercuryMover.
When I have a client who wants a screencast in one particular dimension there’s no better tool than MercuryMover to make that window exactly that size.
Or let’s say I want to show an app with a bit desktop image in the background. I call MercuryMover quickly resize the window, then press a shortcut to center the window. Done. I love it.
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