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Markus Zeller — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:28:50 +0000

Jumpcut to manage your clipboard

Markus Zeller — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:19:46 +0000

When writing articles or doing any text processing it often helps to use copy and paste. Not to steal texts, but copying long URLs, complicated names or just to refer to something.

And when you have copied something once to the clipboard it would be nice to get it back later on or to use it more often and not to have searching it again in written texts before.

Jumpcut

The helper tools for managing that kind of task is called a clipboard manager. There are plenty of them available, but most are quite expensive.

I found a simple and nice one which keeps only text in mind and not images, what I do really prefer. That program is named Jumpcut and freeware.

In the menu bar is a small scissors and clicking on it shows all previous cuts. Just select one to paste it back anywhere in a textbox. Even with a specialized and customizable shortcut you can scroll through them with a head up display.

Short or long URLs?

Markus Zeller — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:32:13 +0000

Long URL Firefox add on

In the internet nothing will work without URLs. Everybody has at least heard once about the “http://” – thing and is often called just a link.

It links to a special recource like HTTP, FTP or local installed applications using a internet connection for example

Skype (callto://dj_n4cer)

Edkonkey (ed2k://%7Cfile%7CSUSE.LiNUX.10.0-retail-boxed-dvd-duallayer.part1.Nhipcau.net.rar%7C4030000000%7CAA6 1774DDD0E6B233BBBA46923C0DF04%7C/)

URL is a short term for Uniform Recource Locator. They are following a standardized formatting rule so that they will work everywhere at anytime.

But URLs can get very long, because it directs the server to a special path if a slash is following. If there are more slashes, then it goes into a deeper level, i. e.

http://www.server.com/userblog/blog/archive/articles/2008/12/01/this-is-an-article-about-long-and-short-urls.

This is convinient to read, but not convinient to type, especially on a mobile device. For that reason there are numerous services providing you short URLs like

http://kurl.de/abc342

which is definitely easier and faster to hack into a phone keyboard. In real, if you open this URL, it redirects you to the original one.

It is often used at Twitter, where you have a limited available amount of characters. Some free suppliers are:

But the big disadvantage is, that you do not know where it leads to before you open it.

If want to know the truth in time you may use the Firefox Plugin Long URL please.

Restart, Sleep and Shutdown

Markus Zeller — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:00:01 +0000

The mac can be restarted, shut down or sent to sleep. To achive that there are several ways.

If you own a MacBook or MacBook Pro you just can close the lid to make it sleep. But on a iMac or MacPro you would like to make it sleep, too.

All methods can be chosen by using the Menu bar clicking on the apple.

Restart options menu

The other geeky way is to use the keyboard. Hold down control and eject. Then you will get a dialog where you can easily select one option from.

CTRL+Eject

Restart Dialog

You can either use a direct shortcut to activate each function without a dialog:

Control-Command-Eject: Restart with asking for closing documents.
Control-Option-Command-Eject: Shut down with asking for closing documents.
Command-Option-Eject: Sleep

Quicklook Extensions

Markus Zeller — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:30:19 +0000

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 a transparent Quicklook.

But did you ever tried that with an archive or a folder? That’s not good. You just see a big icon and it does not make much sense. You can easily extend Quicklook with plugins, then it looks like this showing the content:

Folder contents within Quicklook

Just download the Extension for Archives and for Folders. Then unzip them and copy the containing qlgenerator files into ~/Library/Quicklook (the MacintoshHD, not user directory!). To let Finder know about that you can “relaunch” it by holding Option and left click the finder icon.