Column selection copy and paste
I am sure you are using the copy and paste technique every day you are using your Mac. Of course this a very impotant feature who nobody would ever like to miss again.
Normally you select the text either by keyboard or using the mouse to drag from the start to the end of the text [...]
Clipboard viewer
There are several ways to copy and paste data from source to another target, mostly applications or different windows.
You can use the classic Command+C and Command+V method or the mousy drag and drop.
When you are working with the computer, I am sure you are using this clipboard functionality quite often, because is saves so much [...]
Application icon refresh
Sometimes it may happen when you have a brandnew application and you drop it into the application folder, that the icon is looking like figure 1. The OS X uses a cache to display the icons quickly and it will not be rebuilt on folder change!
You can avoid this by using just a little trick.
Instead [...]
Skitch
Skitch is a wonderful freeware tool from Plasq helping you creating screenshots with annotations or simple image manipulations like rotation or scaling.
As you can see in the picture, I made a snapshot of my DJ homepage and did some simple things like text and shapes.
You can resize just by dragging or make snapshots even from [...]
Pretty, good and private
PGP stands for pretty good privacy and is used for encryption. It helps you to encypt your emails and files, so that only people you want to see the content can view it.
Of course, you can create a ZIP file and use a password, but that is not that secure as PGP supports.
To make that [...]
Rearrange PDF pages
PDF (Portable document format) by Adobe is a very great invention. If you create a PDF file, it can be read on every common computer and operating system – even on most mobile devices. They look and feel all the same.
But creating them with a Mac is no problem, because with OS X you have [...]
Terminal and directories
There are some tasks which are fast and easy to handle within the terminal console. I do not use this quite often, but sometimes when I want to run a self written script.
Because I am as lazy as most people, I do not want to type much. The console helps you out a lot with [...]
Screenshots from Video
Did you ever had a video and wanted to have a screenshot out of it?
The solution is really simple with the Quicktime player. Just pause at the wanted position, size the window as you like and then drag the picture to a document or the desktop.
Voila! When dragging to the desktop the file is named [...]
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