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 [...]
Force FileZilla not to annoy file changes
Cyberduck normally is the FTP client of my choice, but I had to work on a server where uploading was not possible and directory listing extremely slow. Trying to change the amount of concurrent connections and active or passive modes did not help me out. To verify it does not depend on my firewall configuration [...]
Chardrive your harddrive
If the space on a harddrive gets smaller and smaller, then it is time to put some files away. Either they can be put on a backup media or deleted forever. The big question is what to kick first? Large files or long time untouched files? A very good helper is the PathFinder application, because [...]
A Cyberduck in the FTP world
Cyberduck is one of the greatest and most powerful FTP (file transfer protocol) application I have ever seen. It is full of features and supports all important and commonly used standards like SFTP, WebDav, MobileMe, S3 Amazon and Mosso Cloud. This easy to use FTP client enables you to manage a huge amount of connections by a bookmark [...]
Developer tools for everyone
Directly with the OS X of your Mac you have a quite big bunch of nice and powerful tools delivered on your installation DVD. They are not put on your Mac automatically, because they are designed to be developer tools. To get them running, just insert your Tiger, Leopard (or in future Snow Leopard) installation [...]
Desktop in file open box
In any file dialog box of the OS X you have all your favourites in left pane. They are really useful to quick access favourite places on your computer. The current things I am working on, are organized on my desktop. So inside a file dialog box, I just click the sidebar and click on [...]
Dropbox
Sharing files is quite cool if it is easy. There are many ways to achive that, for example by a messenger, mail, FTP and so on. But often the average user does simply not get along with these techniques, because the setup can be complicated and the use of them, too. The first complication often [...]
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 [...]
Quicklook Extensions
Quicklook is very useful, because it gives you a quick look of images, PDF, videos, music and more. So you already know it. It is seemlessly integrated into the finder. You also can activate it by clicking a single or multiple icons on the desktop or in finder and just click space. It will open [...]
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