SCO0202 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 08 [Extra Members]
Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I include a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac! A fairly mixed bag included this week, with some simple and some more complex hints and tips.
| Photo Location Information
Updates: Apple have introduced some
handy new features to help you assign
location information from photos taken with
the iPhone across to photos taken with a
normal "Non-GPS" enabled camera. This tip
shows you what is involved and also takes a
look at a simpler way to move a locations pin
to provide more accurate placement on your
iPhoto maps.!
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| Spurious Zooming on
MacBooks: Whilst I love the
multi-touch gestures on the new unibody
MacBooks, there is one that drives me to
distraction, and that's zooming in Safari and
Mail. This only seems to affect those of us
used to the older MacBooks with the single
button, where we used one hand for clicking
the button and the other for moving the
mouse. It's really hard to relearn not to use
button finger and on the new MacBooks, this
leads to inadvertent zooming in Safari and
Mail. Very annoying. Well as Apple don't
provide a way to turn this off, one
enterprising coder decided to create an
InputManager to disable this function. This
tip shows you how to install this
InputManager and retain your sanity!
Links: Original Instructions |
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| Creating Symbolic Links with
Automator: I've looked at this
technique before of using DropBox to
syncronise application data using symbolic
links. One of my favourite applications has
now been enabled to use this technique, and
that's TextExpander. Rather than show you the
typicalway of implementing this, I stumbled
upon some third party Automator actions that
remove the need for typing long commands into
terminal to set this up.
Links: Automator Actions Manual Instructions |
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| Monitoring Disk Usage:
This segment features two of my favourite
utilities for seeing just where all that
precious disk space has gone -
GrandPerspective and OmniDiskSweeper. Both
utilities do the same job of showing you
which files and folders are taking up the
most space on your drive, but each has a
different approach on how the data is
presented. I take you through both utilities
and describe how I use each one.
GrandPerspective OmniDiskSweeper |
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