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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 [...]
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 [...]
LittleSnapper to make Websnapshots
LittleSnapper is a very great application to make screenshots and annotations. The usage is very easy and absolutely intuitive. Using core animation technology this app makes also a lot of fun and feel homie on a Mac. The greatest feature I like is to make screenshots of Safari. You can specify a screen resolution and [...]
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 [...]
The secrets of hide and seek
I do really work all the day with my Mac and having tons of applications open at the same time. Some are having only one main window, but most of them are having a couple of child windows. Of course I could use spaces with its multiple desktops, but actually I find it quite exhausting [...]
Beachball and Spin control
As you may know, when an application is not ready and you hover the mouse over it’s window, it shows you the legendary beachball. Having the same colorful icon, the application Spin control from the OS X developer tools, keeps track over all running processes. If any running application goes busy, Spin control counts the [...]
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 [...]
Pathfinder
Managing Files on your Harddrive is one of the most done tasks for people like me. I really got very familar to Finder, because it is quite powerful and I can achieve really almost everything with help of the OS X Automator application. In former Windows times, I was using the Total Commander. It is [...]
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 [...]
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