Link: 10.5: Move all windows of an application in Spaces
In Spaces view mode (F8), you can move all windows of an application together (from one space) to another space by dragging them with Control key or Shift key held down. This is very useful if you are using a lot of window…
Link: 10.5: Auto remove printer icon from Dock after print
Probably not a major hint, but something interesting I just noticed, as well as how to fix it. During my time with a developer copy of Leopard (about two months), I noticed that the printer icon would remain in dock after …
Link: 10.5: Enable Bonjour Browser in ScreenSharing.app
I came across this today while browsing some plist files. You can enable a “Bonjour Browser,” which allows you to add list of computers you can connect to via the new ScreenSharing application (hiding in /System/Library/CoreS…
Link: MAXroam - global SIM card
David Pogue mentioned this in a NYTimes article a while back. Looks like a very slick approach to an ugly problem. Their FAQ mentions what seems like this is a way to have your local phone number follow you when you roam, too.
Link: *Common Usability Terms, pt. V: Modes*
This is the fifth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [part I | part II | part III | part IV]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts’ Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their…
Link: The Subjectivity of Wine
Jonah Lehrer:
In 2001, Frederic Brochet, of the University of Bordeaux, conducted two separate and very mischievous experiments. In the first test, Brochet invited 57 wine experts and asked them to give their impressions of what looked like two glasses of red and white wine. The wines were actually the same white wine, one of which had been tinted red with food coloring. But that didn’t stop the experts from describing the “red" wine in language typically used to describe red wines. One…
Link: 10.5: Keychain access after 10.5 archive/install
After archive/install upgrading to 10.5, Mail.app, Safari, etc. all complained about my keychain information missing. So I simply copied the file ~/Library > Keychains > login.keychain to ~/Library > Keychains > yourusern…
Link: 10.5: Switch the Finder’s sidebar labels to lowercase
10.5 ships with uppercase menu items in the Finder’s sidebar, similar to recent versions of iTunes. To make things lowercase like they should be, do the following. First, navigate to (or copy and paste the following into the …
Link: Quick Look From the Command Line
Shaun Haber on Leopard’s “qlmanage" command-line tool.
Link: 10.5: Add Quick Look support for certain file formats
I have a lot of files that contains data in plain text format with different extensions — things like .cfg, .dat and .tex. However, those files are not recognized by the Quick Look viewer. It is possible to make these other …