FINISHED: Apple / MacOS Tip a day for a year !

Monday 9th February
Tip 88 - MacOS [42] - View basic EXIF data on a file without opening it.


Open info on the file by pressing [CMD] + and select “More Info”.
 
Tuesday 10th February
Tip 89 - MacOS [43] - View Photo’s EXIF Metadata.


Whilst previewing a picture in PREVIEW hold [CMD] + and the document info window will appear.

Now click “Details”.
 
Some great tips here, mate - thank you!

BTW, is it possible to make a finder window a certain size by default? I always find myself dragging the window a tad bigger than the standard size...
 
Some great tips here, mate - thank you!

BTW, is it possible to make a finder window a certain size by default? I always find myself dragging the window a tad bigger than the standard size...

I've never even thought about it. Quite possibly there are variables you can set via terminal as with a lot of the current tips but the ones I am giving you are ones that I have come across. I don't have a list of all of them unfortunately !

If I come across a way I will post it as a tip :) make sure you keep coming back. There are only 276 left to go :)
 
Wednesday 11th February
Tip 90 - MacOS [44] - Tagging a file with a colour.


Select a file or files in finder.
hold [CTRL] and press .
Click on the colour of your choice and close the information window.
 
Thursday 12th February
Tip 91 - MacOS [45] - Turn off the annoying data detectors in MAIL.


Run terminal and type the following:

Code:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES

this can be reversed by replacing the “YES” with “NO”.
 
Friday 13th February
Tip 92 - MacOS [46] - Searching for colour tagged files.


[CTRL] + [F] to select the find function and select “Color Label” then click on the colour that you want.
 
Saturday 14th February
Tip 93 - MacOS [47] - Selecting a picture as the finder background.


Right click then view options and under background click on “Picture” and then “Select” to select the picture file.
 
Sunday 15th February
Tip 94 - MacOS [48] - Umlauts.


There are a number of keyboard combinations that create special characters:

[ALT] + then [e] gives you an umlaut above an e for the name Chloë
 
Monday 16th February
Tip 95 - MacOS [49] - Accents.


[ALT] + [e] then [e] gives you an accent above an e for the word résumé.
 
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Tuesday 17th February
Tip 96 - MacOS [50] - Yet another screen shot tip!


Run terminal and type

Code:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <location>

where <location> is the folder location of the screen shot default location.
 
Wednesday 18th February
Tip 97 - MacOS [51] - Convert a DMG file to ISO to read on a PC.


Run Terminal and type:

Code:
hdiutil convert /<path>/image.dmg -format UDTO -o /<path>/image.iso
 
Thursday 19th February
Tip 98 - MacOS [52] - Convert an ISO file to DMG.


Run Terminal and type:

Code:
hdiutil convert /<path>/image.iso -format UDRW -o /<path>/image.dmg
 
Friday 20th February
Tip 99 - MacOS [53] - Tilde.


[ALT] + then [e] gives you a tilde above an e for the character ê.
 
Saturday 21st February
Tip 100 - MacOS [54] - Copyright symbol.


[ALT] + [g] gives you the character ©.
 
Sunday 22nd February
Tip 101 - MacOS [55] - View all the files in a directory.


Or alternatively press [CMD] + [A] then [SPACE] view will appear with all your files available. You can now switch between them using the arrow keys or clicking on the left and right arrows.
 
Monday 23rd February
Tip 102 - MacOS [56] - Finder key combination examples...


Tip 101 was actually two tips...

1) Select ALL files in a directry = [CMD] +[A]
2) Start quick view = [SPACE]

so using "select all" we can do other things like...

[CMD] + [A] then [CMD] + would bring up information on every file in turn

or [CMD] + [A] then [CMD] + [c] would 'copy' all the files to the clipboard

with [CMD] + [v] to paste them at another location.
 
Tuesday 24th February
Tip 103 - Hardware [6] - Faulty iBook touch-pad


This is a LAST RESORT repair and I really do mean this.

If your iBook touch-pad is worn out so that it goes shiny then it becomes very intermittent and it becomes rather difficult to use it as your finger slides across with not enough friction to register. You can tell that you are in this position by licking your finger and using it on the touch-pad if it now works then you have a nearly dead touch-pad.

The normal repair would be to buy a new top and replace it or to buy one from ebay. I have an iBook in just this state! So I bought another top which just cost me $25 from the US....

Now as I had a new top I could experiment without a problem and made this discovery. Get some wet and dry and moisten the touch pad then LIGHTLY rub the touch-pad with the wet and dry till you knock the shine off it and give it a nice matt finish....

Hey presto - I now have two iBook tops :)

USUAL HARDWARE GET OUT CLAUSE HERE : Try this at YOUR OWN RISK on an otherwise dead iBook. It works on this ONE iBook I have and on this ONE occasion and it may work for you.
 
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Wednesday 25th February
Tip 104 – Applications (Image Capture)


This is a really useful application to download your pictures from your iPhone or certain cameras such as the Nikon D1x.

TIP104a.png


Basically run Image Capture from the Applications directory and then the top field is “Download To:”, you can click on this and change the location to another directory.

Automatic Task defaults to “None” but this can be changed to complete certain tasks after the pictures have been downloaded such as resizing, cropping or viewing in Preview.

You will also see the [OPTIONS] button in the bottom left corner, this allows you to complete other actions such as deleting the images afterwards:

TIP104b.png


After being run for the first time with a device Image Capture seems to just automatically run now when I plug my iPhone or D1x into my computer. They also default to the values used the previous time.

D1x

You need to switch your camera to PC mode in order to use image capture.
 
I use this, or, like you say, it uses itself.
I plug in the D80 and image capture downloads my pictures, deletes them from the memory card and opens the pictures folder for me.
Couldn't work without this now, it's such a small detail but so useful.
 
Monday 16th February
Tip 95 - MacOS [49] - Accents.


[ALT] + [e] then [e] gives you an accent above an e for the word résumé.

Very useful info. Do you know how would the following two accents can be achieved: &#367; & š?
 
Thursday 26th February
Tip 105 &#8211; Safari 4 Beta [1] &#8211; Restore blue progress bar


Run Terminal

APPLICATIONS :: Utilities :: Terminal

And type the following into the terminal window:

Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO

more safari 4 tips to come!

ALSO SEE Tip 42
 
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Friday 27th February
Tip 106 &#8211; Safari 4 Beta [2] &#8211; Switch off URL autocomplete


Run Terminal

APPLICATIONS :: Utilities :: Terminal

And type the following into the terminal window:

Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO

more safari 4 tips to come!

ALSO SEE Tip 42
 
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Saturday 28th February
Tip 107 &#8211; Safari 4 Beta [3] &#8211; Move tab bar back !


Run Terminal

APPLICATIONS :: Utilities :: Terminal

And type the following into the terminal window:

Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

more safari 4 tips to come!

ALSO SEE Tip 42
 
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Sunday 1st March
Tip 108 &#8211; Safari 4 [4] &#8211; Zooming in and out


Hold [CMD] and press [+] to zoom in

Hold [CMD] and press [-] to zoom out

This is proper zooming in and out not just changing the font sizes !!

more safari 4 tips to come!
 
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Monday 2nd March
Tip 109 &#8211; Safari 4 [5] &#8211; Top Sites


Open a page and click the [+] in the top corner in order to bring up the "Top Sites" page.

Click [EDIT] in the bottom left corner to enter edit mode.

Click [X] to remove a page from the tops sites page

Click on the pin to force that page to stay in top sites at that location

Click and drag a page from one location to another to move it

Click [small], [medium] or [large] to change the number of pages

To add a page manually to top sites: Open top sites in one safari window then open your new page in another window then click on the speach mark icon at the beginning of the address bar of the site you want to add and holding the mouse button in drag the icon onto the top sites window then drop it.



more safari 4 tips to come!
 
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as just posted in another thread, if you've got one of the new macbooks with the muti touch track pads you can also zoom in/out using the pinch gesture as well !
 
Tuesday 3rd March
Tip 110 &#8211; Safari 4 [6] &#8211; Tab <> Window


If you have more than one Safari window open and wish to make one of the windows into a tab of the other click on the top right of the title tab and drag this onto the tab bar of the other window.

If you want to open a tab in another window click on the top right of the tab title and drag this off the Safari window.


more safari 4 tips to come!
 
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Cowasaki... :thinking: ...

Done this...

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO


But lost the 'Refresh' icon from the top box... :eek: ... any ideas... :shrug:






:p
 
For anyone wanting to revert to normal settings type

defaults delete com.apple.Safari {variable}

into terminal where {variable} equals the name of the key you changed, this will then put it back eg debugSafari4LoadProgressStyle

as for the refresh button! Where did that go? - Just right click and select RELOAD
 
Wednesday 4th March
Tip 111 &#8211; Safari 4 Beta [7] &#8211; Change your search engine!


Right this is a complicated one so grab that teddy bear and hang on tight :)

1) EXIT then Backup your safari application
2) Download a HEX EDITOR such as 0xED from here >>> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/0xed.html
3) Unpack it and run it
4) Goto FILE>>OPEN and select the file "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari"
5) Goto EDIT>>FIND and search for "http://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"

then REPLACE above string with:

yahoo = "http://%@@search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%@&a=0"

google.co.uk = "http://%@.google.co.uk/%@?hl=en&q=%@ " ( note there are 10 spaces after the last '@' )



Just copy the text about using [CMD] & [C] then adding the extra spaces and paste into the hex editor using [CMD] & [V]

YOURS MUST LOOK LIKE THIS !! You MUST NOT change the length of the string you replace it with see screen shot!

IT IS **NOT** THE FIRST INSTANCE THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BUT THE SECOND. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THE OFFSET COLUMN IE THE FIRST COLUMN!!


HackSafari.png


FROM

HackFrom.png


You will note that the last few lines with "new" at the end of the line 2nd from the bottom!!


6) Goto FILE>>SAVE

Thats it you have just HACKED safari v4 and it will now search using www.google.co.uk instead
 
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This is something I've wanted to do for a while. Will it work on Safari 3?
 
This is something I've wanted to do for a while. Will it work on Safari 3?

Yes, just the same but the offset location (1st column will be different) and you need to fill in all the chars from http: through to the 00 zero char.

I have edited the original to make this more obvious, thanks for pointing it out. I have been constantly saying it should be an option then when someone else pointed it out I decided to do something about it.
 
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