Trying to sort full-screen apps in Lion? Here’s how System Preferences Mission Control Check “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use This allows you to organize your full-screen apps by alt-tabbing through them (yeah not the greatest). Bonus: I’m still trying to get used to the three-finger swipes and accidentally alt-tab once in a [...]
Category Archives: OS
Full Screen Terminal Keyboard Command on a Mac
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough. In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal. Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes. Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f. [...]
Synergy (running in the background on a Mac 10.5+)
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Synergy is an application that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse between several different computers (Windows, Linux, and OS X). Unfortunately, running synergy in the background on a mac doesn’t work so well. Here’s one of the work-arounds I’ve found on the Internet. This involves running the app through launchctl a replacement for [...]
Move Podcast track from Podcast to Music in iTunes
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Once in a while there’s a song in the Stereo gum mp3 feed that I actually want to keep. Here’s how I do it. Select the podcasts you wish to convert to normal audio files. Right click and select “Convert ID3 tags”. Change the ID3 tags to version 1.0 Drag the podcast tracks out to [...]
Catching System output from Perl
Monday, November 3, 2008
I’m too lazy to install a perl module, on a local computer, for a quick whois on a few domains. Catching the shell’s output is more convenient in this case. Instead of first writing and then reading from a file, it makes more sense to use a pipe. Here’s a quick example: #!/usr/bin/perl open (WHOIS, [...]
Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X
Monday, November 3, 2008
I use this to lock and unlock my Mac, at work, based on the bluetooth connection between my phone and computer. Once my Mac detects that the phone is unavailable it locks itself. What you’ll need: Proximity 1.0 a free download from Apple. A compiled version of notify.c #include int main(int argc, char ** argv) [...]
Find current user with in an Applescript
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I’m in the middle of testing this, but it should work: set MyName to do shell script “whoami”
Custom Ringtones and SMS alerts for hacked iPhones
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
This is really here for me to keep track of. Life in 0 and 1 has a nice little tutorial on how to change SMS alerts on a hacked iPhone. This is for hacked iPhones only. You can pick up quickpwn here
Dissable Spotlight in OS 10.5
Thursday, September 4, 2008
This is really here for me to find later, hope this helps others: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892
Officejet J5780 All-in-One Mac OS X w Intel
Saturday, July 19, 2008
I couldn’t find this driver on HP’s site directly so I’m posting this here as a reminder to myself. The install HP links to directly seems to stall out. I’ll update this and let everyone know how well this actually works. Install Update: Scanning works like a champ on an Intel Mac. Installs a bunch [...]