Are you sick of Preview reopening previously-closed windows from the previous time you fired up the app?
You can turn this behaviour off – although only for all apps at once.
It’s in the System Preferences –> General pane, near the bottom, second-to-last checkbox. Uncheck.
Wanna delete duplicates from your iCal?
There are apps for that.
One of them is iCal Dupe Deleter
PS: it initially seemed as if this didn’t work. Except that I realized I still had MobileMe activated on my Lion install. Once I removed the account from the Accounts list in the iCal Preferences, there was no remaining duplication.
Know why Safari won’t activate Transmission the second you click on a .torrent file even if you already told OS X to open .torrent files with Transmission? By default, Safari doesn’t consider .torrent files safe and hence will only download them.
To override this, simply create a plain text file named com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist with the following code inside and put it in ~/Library/Preferences/
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com-PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>LSRiskCategorySafe</key> <dict> <key>LSRiskCategoryExtensions</key> <array> <string>torrent</string> </array> </dict> </dict> </plist>
Ever wanted your TV shows to download THEMSELVES to your Mac?
Here is your automation app alive and well in 2012: TVShows 2 (open source, donationware). Download it from http://tvshowsapp.com/
(hat tip to @Dakota_ONeill on twitter)
Sometimes you want a precise handle on what’s using up your disk space. After several go-arounds, I have two recommendations:
du -h -d 2
Via http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/customize-login-screen-lion.php :-
Before Lion, displaying a message on the login screen was a complicated process that involved entering commands into the Terminal. Luckily, Apple have now added an easy way to set a message using System Preferences. To do this, go to the Security & Privacy preference pane, and under the General tab, tick the checkbox Show a message when the screen is locked then add your message. Only about the first 200 characters you enter will be displayed, so make your message short and sweet.
Personally, I think the “linen” background for logging in to Mac OS X Lion looks cheap and Windows-y.
If you want to change the background, here are the instructions, via http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/customize-login-screen-lion.php
In Lion, the background used for the login screen is located at
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/
The easiest way to get to this folder is to choose Go to Folder in the Go menu while in the Finder. Then just copy and paste in the above line and click Go. The image that is used for the background is NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png. You can replace this with any other image, and as long as you give it exactly the same name, it will be used for the login screen background. Before you make any changes, make sure you make a copy of the original file somewhere safe so you can go back to it if you want.
You’ll notice that the image is only a small 256×256 pixel square — this is because it is automatically tiled across the screen. If you want to use a similar type of texture, any size image is fine. However, if you would like to use a full size image without tiling, you need to make sure the image dimensions exactly match your screen and the resolution is 72 dpi. Either way, it must also be in PNG format like the original. It’s pretty simple to use Preview to adjust any image to the correct size and format.
git located inside /Developer/usr/bin, along with gcc, make and some other goodies.
Mmmmmm mmmm useful.
> mdfind -name combattans
CCCloner will now do encryption under FileVault2 – but it is restricted to Lion-only. Developer notes at http://help.bombich.com/kb/advanced-strategies/the-disk-center#fde .
N.B.: in order for CCCloner to be able to encrypt your backed-up partition, you will need to have originally partitioned the disk using GPT (GUID partition table):
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