Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Strange results on live search

A friend of mine and I were messing around with live search, and we noticed some dubious sponsored links associated with certain keywords.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Easily edit Cocoa KeyBindings files

Want to add some new keyboard shortcuts to all cocoa programs? Use a key bindings file.

This free program will help you edit them:

http://www.cocoabits.com/KeyBindingsEditor/

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Set default application for file types

Use the RCDefaultApp preference pane.

Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network drives

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores 1

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Show hidden files in Finder

Ever want to be able to access files that begin with '.' via the Finder? It's simple, open up Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

Then to apply the setting immediately:

killall Finder

blog why

This blog is primarily to help me remember different tweaks I've made on my mac, so that when I need to set up another mac in the future, I have all the information easily accessible.