Archive for the 'OS X' Category

Witch is a System Preferences utility for Mac OS X, allowing you to customize the process of cycling between windows, which is traditionally accomplished with “Command + Tab” (“Alt + Tab” on Windows).

The traditional approach has a few drawbacks, specifically on Mac OS X:

You are limited to cycling only between open applications, as opposed to […]

Most Mac OS X files are actually bundles. If you try copying and pasting bundles outside of OS X, they will copy in segments, ie: each piece of the bundle. This can cause unexpected behavior when uploading or emailing files that are actually bundles.

Testing websites and web applications that are optimized for iPhone is not possible everywhere unless the remote web resource thinks the client is an iPhone. Web-based and OS X applications exist to test iPhone compatibility, but this tutorial describes how to set Firefox up to fake the iPhone user agent.

Adobe came to Minneapolis for their Summer 2007 On AIR bus tour, where they introduced the new AIR runtime environment built to deploy internet applications to the desktop.

Over the holiday break, you are probably taking a lot of photos, all of which will eventually get imported to your computer. While picture taking is fun, importing is sometimes a laborious task, because not every picture is a “keeper.” You have to manually sift through each photo, and decide to keep it or trash it.

On Mac OS X, there are some tools that allow you to streamline this process more easily. So rather than spending New Year’s Day sifting through all of your photos, you can enjoy your holiday.

PictureSync is an application that lets users easily annotate and upload their photos to various photo sharing services, or move annotated photos to another folder (FTP them to a remote site). Annotating a photo means to add descriptive information to the photo (metadata), such as a title, description, keyword, or geographic location (latitude and longitude). This data is different from the EXIF data that your digital camera records and embeds into the output file.

CoverFlow is a beautiful application that lets you browse your music collection by album cover. The interface is intentionally kept simple, allowing users to simply scroll through albums and make selections (that’s it). So what makes CoverFlow so great?

Here’s a quick tip on how to customize the view options for Finder windows in Mac OS X.

Most Mac users already know that every Finder window (in the current version of OS X) can be viewed in three different ways: Icons, List, or Columns.

But did you know you can fully customize each view for specific folders?

While in the Finder, go to View > Show View Options.

The Camino Browser is a alternate browser for OS X built on the same technology as Firefox, however it uses the native OS X interface and has attractive icons and menus, to really give it an “OS X feel.” The idea is to take the stability and performance of Firefox, but capture the attractiveness of Safari and other native OS X applications.

Album artwork comes with every purchase from the iTunes Music Store. If you don’t purchase directly from the iTunes Music Store, but still import your CD’s into iTunes, you’ll need a “quick” way to insert the album artwork, for each song.

It’s too cumbersome to scan in artwork from the actual liner notes, or even to get the artwork from Amazon.com, every time you import a new CD.

Clutter takes care of all of this, for us.