Awesome little tip for Mission Control in OS X Lion: if you have a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, double tap on a Dock icon with two fingers. Neat! Continue reading…
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Resolve a Frozen Finder in OS X Lion
Ever since I upgraded to Lion, I’ve found that on occasion the Finder becomes unresponsive. When the Finder freezes, the entire system becomes unstable (anything that accesses the filesystem). Luckily, I came across a possible workaround and solution to this problem. Continue reading…
Disable Local Time Machine Backups
I’ve been meaning to post this for a few weeks, but here’s a neat tip: you can disable local Time Machine backups to save some space if you’re running Mac OS X 10.7. Continue reading…
Enable TRIM on Non-Apple SSDs
While my iMac came with an Apple-branded SSD, and received TRIM support through OS X Lion, Joy’s MacBook Pro does not and did not. This utility enables it: TRIM Enabler. Continue reading…
Install QuickTime 7 on OS X Lion
If you want QuickTime Player 7 on your new Lion install, you can download a working copy from Apple here: QuickTime Player 7.6.6 for Mac OS X v10.6.3. Continue reading…
Unhide Library Folder in OS X 10.7 Lion
For some reason, Apple decided to hide the user’s Library folder in the Finder. Here’s a quick tip to keep it visible. Continue reading…
OS X Lion, NAS, and Time Machine
A few months ago, I purchased a Western Digital My Book Live to use solely for backup purposes. Since receiving it, it has worked great keeping my iMac backed up, and I even planned on switching Joy’s MacBook Pro to using it, too. Well, it doesn’t look like that switch will be happening soon. Continue reading…
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Adds TRIM Support
Apparently, the recent Mac OS X update added TRIM support (at least for stock Apple SSDs in older machines). Very nice and about time! Continue reading…
Ping-Sweep From the Terminal in OS X
I did something stupid: I lost one of the routers on my network. I currently have a dual-router network setup, mainly for the purpose of running a wireless b/g network and a wireless-N network (5 Ghz). Regardless, I couldn’t remember what I set the IP address to for the b/g router. After doing a quick Google-search, I found an easy way to do a ping-sweep in the OS X terminal. Continue reading…
Mac Tip: Navigate Text by Word
If you use a Mac, there are tons of text navigation tools at your disposal. One of the little known is navigating text by word:
- Move your cursor between words: alt + Left or Right Arrow Key. This lets you jump between words in a sentence. This is helpful when you find that you mistyped a word earlier in a sentence, and you don’t want to use your mouse to move your cursor to the right spot.
- Move your cursor between paragraphs: alt + Up or Down Arrow Key. This lets you jump to the beginnings and ends of paragraphs, and is very useful when navigating large amounts of text.
- Delete the previous word: alt+delete. If you want to delete the last word you typed, this combination is handy.
- Delete the next word: alt+forward delete (fn+delete on laptops). Similar to the previous tip, this deletes the word in front of your cursor.
Do you have any other text navigation tips?
Update: Added the paragraph navigation tip.
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