Archive for the ‘Cool Mac OS X Tricks’ Category
Getting back a lost podcast episode
For podcast management I am using iTunes of course. I like iTunes. Really!
Sometimes my fingers are too fast and something is trashed, especially podcast episodes. If you are wacking the same as me, then I am sure this or the other time you want it being undone.
Of course there is a simple and quick way:
Just [...]
G-Mail within Apple Mail
Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.
Take the following settings, to enable [...]
Get your webcolor quickly
When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every time I have a graphics program open, but I quickly want to pick the color [...]
Quicktime 7 in Snow Leopard
The new Quicktime Player in Snow Leopard is totally reprogrammed. It brings a complete new interface and some innovative features where you needed some additional tools before.
With that version Apple focuses to the average user with functions like trimming and uploading videos to Youtube. This may look simple, but beware that cutting and converting has to be [...]
Boot from USB instead of DVD
You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too!
Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use a [...]
Starting apps more than once
When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front.
In some situations, it would be helpful to start it again – especially system applications like the network scanner.
With the help of Path Finder [...]
Auto-quit the printer queue
The dock contain a large amount of icons and thanks to the scalability of OS X you can resize the dock bar to have them larger or smaller.
I personally do prefer only having that applications in the dock which I am using every single day. Those who I do not need shall disappear.
The printer icon [...]
Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick
Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test.
Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the stick, [...]
Merge them all together
To feel as fit as a fiddle on my Mac’s screen I need to have it clean with only that windows in front I am currently working in.
For how to hide unwanted applications without termination I blogged the article The secrets of hide and seek.
The Eventbox is my best friend when getting updated on RSS [...]
Get your password back on a Mac
My iMac is my holy shrine and no one except for me is allowed to touch or even to use it. That makes it easy to store all passwords in Safari.
Currently, many sites are integrating multiple Sign-In technologies with accounts from other sites like OpenId, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo and more. That can be a [...]
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