In OS X Leopard (can’t confirm earlier versions), if you have a Finder window spanning multiple physical monitors or multiple virtual Spaces, or extending off the edge of any physical monitor, try dragging a file and dangling it over that Finder window. The Finder window will smoothly slide into the current physical monitor on the [...]
One of OS X Tiger’s most annoying bugs to me was that the zoom functionality was broken for multi-monitor setups. It’d work at first, but when you moved your mouse, it’d go all screwy. It was useless. I’m not sure if it was fixed in OS X Leopard or the 10.5.1 update — but it [...]
My wife and I were having a “yes” … “no” battle, and I was getting tired of saying “no” over and over again. So I typed a bunch of “no’s” into QuickSilver and invoked the “speak text” action. OS X Leopard’s “Alex” voice kicked in with a litany of “no’s.” And then about ten “no’s” [...]
Documents that end in RTFD are of the type Rich Text Format Directory. They’re basically rich text documents that support images.
Because they’re the native format of OS X’s TextEdit, they tend to be used for ReadMe files.
Hence this:
Because of this, and because of the extension’s similarity to RTFM, I always see them as: “Read [...]
When I got my MacBook Pro, I decided that I wasn’t going to bring everything over on my PowerBook, but rather that I would manually transfer things as I needed them. That way, the cruft gets left behind. Here is the list of applications I’ve installed, in the order that I’ve installed them.
Fink [...]
OS X’s Spotlight searching functionality is pretty handy, but I’ve always been annoyed by having to arrow down to select the top hit and launch/open it. I stumbled upon a shortcut by accident. Holding down Cmd will highlight the top hit, and then pressing Return will launch/open it. So, Cmd-Space, type, Cmd-Return. [...]
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.