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OS X Lion Two Finger Double Tap on Dock Icons

Brandon Martinez — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

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

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Resolve a Frozen Finder in OS X Lion

Brandon Martinez — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:34:44 +0000

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

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Disable Local Time Machine Backups

Brandon Martinez — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:07:32 +0000

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

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Enable TRIM on Non-Apple SSDs

Brandon Martinez — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:09:01 +0000

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

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Install QuickTime 7 on OS X Lion

Brandon Martinez — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:34:12 +0000

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

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Unhide Library Folder in OS X 10.7 Lion

Brandon Martinez — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:46 +0000

For some reason, Apple decided to hide the user’s Library folder in the Finder. Here’s a quick tip to keep it visible

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OS X Lion, NAS, and Time Machine

Brandon Martinez — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:00:35 +0000

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

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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Adds TRIM Support

Brandon Martinez — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:56:23 +0000

Apparently, the recent Mac OS X update added TRIM support (at least for stock Apple SSDs in older machines). Very nice and about time

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Ping-Sweep From the Terminal in OS X

Brandon Martinez — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:46:26 +0000

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

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Mac Tip: Navigate Text by Word

Brandon Martinez — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:57:17 +0000

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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Easily Copy or Move Files to Dropbox

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:38:11 +0000

If you’re an avid Dropbox user like myself, you may find that getting files to your Dropbox folder isn’t always the easiest task. If you’re rooted deep into the filesystem, sometimes you want a quick way to send a file to your public folder without having leave your current location. Well, now there is an easy to use solution (Mac OS X only)

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That’ll Be a Cinch!

Brandon Martinez — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:51:17 +0000

When it comes to window-management, Mac OS X wins hands-down. Exposé and Spaces are a great way to manage open windows and applications within your desktop environment. However, I’ll have to admit that there is one Windows 7 feature wish I had on my Mac: AeroSnap. Being able to drag a window to the top of the screen to have it maximized, or to the left or right of a screen to create a split-view is awesome. There was no easy Mac solution to incorporate this amazing UI feature, that is, until now

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Make Google Notifier More “Push”-Like

Brandon Martinez — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:02:52 +0000

I recently installed Prowl on my iPhone to receive push notification from, well, just about everything. One of the things that was excited was that I could setup a faux-Gmail Push System. After setting everything up, I noticed that the Google Notifier was only checking every 15 minutes (sometimes longer it seemed). After doing a little digging, I came across a forum post over at macosxhints. Luckily, it was quite easy to fix:

While holding Command and Option down on the keyboard, select the Google Notifier Gmail icon and select preferences. This will generate a pop-up dialog.
In the dialog box, enter AutocheckInterval as the key, and for the value enter 1 (for number of minutes to check).
Hit set and you’re done!

After applying this fix, it’s just like having push Gmail (as long as my computer is on)! Thank you jonnygozy!

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