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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Getting Java client apps to run the way you want</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I sometimes find the Java setup on my various Apple devices to be a mystery.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recently, I was trying to get a Java applet to run in the same way on 2 iMacs and my MacBook Air. The applet is a simple vpn client from Juniper that lets me access a Citrix Desktop from any Mac that I can install the Citrix receiver client on so I can work on 'Company stuff' from a large screen iMac when I'm sat at home or from my MacBook when I'm on the road (it works fine over 3/4G).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The first thing is that you have to do &lt;a href=&quot;http://lamejournal.com/2014/01/23/junos-pulse-collaboration-client-osx-mavericks/&quot;&gt;some configuring&lt;/a&gt; of both Java and Safari to get the applet to run at all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Once that was all done, I could log in from all my Macs, fire up the applet and establish a secure connection.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On two of the Macs, as soon as I fired up the Citrix app, the Java vpn window would show 'error'. The console showed a Java crash. But on the third Mac, everything worked fi ...</description>
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<title>10.8: Open a specific browser based on the URL</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Usually I want to open Gmail in Chrome and URLs pointing to my development server in Firefox. For everything else I use Safari.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is this nifty free app called &lt;a href=&quot;http://onflapp.wordpress.com/lincastor/&quot;&gt;LinCastor&lt;/a&gt; that enables you to register your own handler for an URL. Although it had beed designed to register your own non-standard URL schemes, it can intercept standard http and https as well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In LinCastor (which you need to double-click twice to fully open for editing):&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Add a new URL scheme&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Choose AppleScript handler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Paste the following code in, (replacing the stub code at the bottom):&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;on handle_url(args)  if (|URL| of args starts with &quot;https://mail.google.&quot;) then    tell application &quot;Google Chrome&quot;      open location |URL| of args   ...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>Mousecape – Customize Cursors on OS X</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Mousecape is a new open source Mac App which is available &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape&quot;&gt;on GitHub&lt;/a&gt; to finally allow you to create and use your own mouse cursors, or 'capes' as the app calls them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Once you download the app, there is a remastered version of the Svanslös cursor set created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://maxrudberg.com&quot;&gt;Max Rudberg&lt;/a&gt; which is retina-screen ready.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mousecape is as non-instrusive as possible, never asking you for your password for anything. It works by using private APIs created by Apple to register system cursors so it has no performance hit at all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Capes, or cursor sets, are applied for as long as display state doesn't change, meaning until you change resolution, monitors, sleep your computer, reboot or logout. However, inside of the application is a helper application that will detect when the cape is reset and will apply it again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mousecape is available for free, open source and with no obligations.  ...</description>
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<title>Make iWork 09 the default and avoid update nagging</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140712032947258</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Many people continue to use iWork 09 apps, because they contain features missing in the newer versions. However, having the older apps on your system mean a constant nagging from Apple to update to the newer versions. If you do download the newer versions, then it is impossible to make the older apps the default for your documents. The old &lt;i&gt;Get Info &amp;raquo; Change All&lt;/i&gt; trick doesn't work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here's what to do to remedy that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, make a backup. Then install the latest iWork apps. Your older versions get moved to a subfolder called &lt;i&gt;iWork 09&lt;/i&gt;. That's why you have the backup.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Next, move the NEW apps to an external disk or other partition. You can then restore the 09 apps to the &lt;i&gt;/Applications&lt;/i&gt; folder. Or leave them in the subfolder if you prefer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Having the apps on different volume from the system disk lowers their priority, so the 09 apps in your &lt;i&gt;/Applications&lt;/i&gt; folder remain the defaults for your documents. What is more, any fu ...</description>
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<title>Name Faces in iPhoto efficiently</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I've become somewhat obsessed with the faces feature in iPhoto. Currently, I have about 7000 unidentified faces in my library. I knock out a few hundred here and there. It's oddly satisfying, but I go to a lot of large events - events where a lot of people look familiar because they are regulars, but I don't know them. This makes finding faces rather cumbersome, especially since the method of ignoring faces requires the mouse. Everything else can be done with the keyboard. Plus, doesn't track repeatedly ignored faces, so the same faces keep showing up. Well, I've discovered a way to work around these cumbersome limitations.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Doing everything with the keyboard makes things go a lot faster. If you're using the Find Faces feature and skip faces you don't know (because you don't want to pause to use the mouse), the next time you click on Find Faces, you'll be presented with those same unknown faces over and over again. They build up and always get presented in the same order, s ...</description>
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<title>10.9: Terminal text shortcuts still work in Safari</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I should have stumbled on this one years ago but I have just realised typing in Safari's address bar and unconsciously doing &lt;i&gt;Ctrl+a&lt;/i&gt; to go to the start of my query, that it works.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We recall these life saving Unix text editing shortcuts:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;'Ctrl+a' : go to start of the line&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;'Ctrl+e' : go to the eol&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;'Ctrl+k' : delete all chars to the right of the cursor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I have tested those with success in various standard Dialog Boxes, TextEdit windows andin Safari's address bar; it seems to be a relatively system wide standard. Of course no luck with MS apps, they use their non-standard &lt;i&gt;Alt+arrows&lt;/i&gt; (when most other Mac apps use the widely known &lt;i&gt;Ctrl+arrows&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First my sincerest apologies to all those who knew and if there ever was a similar hint since 2003 in the DB. [&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; At the time this hint was originally submitted the site's search function was not working.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ever watchful of posting eti ...</description>
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<title>Bypass Chromes SSL/certificate blockades</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>There's something with Chrome (and Firefox as well) that has driven me crazy for some years: when browsing the web via a proxy server while at work I can't access some pages via the HTTPS-protocol. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chrome and Firefox are showing error messages like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apfel-z.net/bilder/0086/sslfehler.png&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apfel-z.net/bilder/0086/firefox-sslfehler2.png&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (sorry, both are in German). Safari just shows a blank page and I'm not able to open that specific web site although I'm sure that this site is not going to harm my computer or myself. For example this problem appears when I try to access my router at home or some other sites having problematic certificates - but they play fine when I'm at home.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Finally I found a solution for the problem.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Unfortunately there's neither a visible setting to set Chrome to warn me but allow the warning to be ignored, nor is that one in &lt;i&gt;about:flags&lt;/i&gt;. But you can start Chr ...</description>
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<title>Add Multiple URLs to a Calendar Event</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I frequently want to add multiple URLs to Calendar events. Of course, you can put them in the Notes section, but given that there's a URL field, it seems a little kludgey. This solution is kludgey too, but perhaps a bit less so.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drag the additional link(s) to the Finder to create a &lt;i&gt;.webloc&lt;/i&gt; file; then drag that file to the attachment field for the event.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can double-click the file to open the link, which is better than the link being non-clickable in the Notes field, where you would have to highlight and right-click (Control+click). The URL won't appear in the body of an email when you send an event to someone, but it will be in the attached &lt;i&gt;.ics&lt;/i&gt; file.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one.]
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<title>Create very unique signatures in Preview</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>You can make signatures in Preview that are pen and ink style drawings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know if this has been posted yet, or if it is generally known, but I stumbled upon a neat feature of signatures in Preview.app. When you create a signature, if you you don't hold up a piece of paper with a signature on it, and simply smile for a mug shot, Preview will create a signature that is a neat pen and ink style image of yourself, or whatever is in front of the camera. I've created several, that for the right client, can be used as a humorous alternative to an actual signature. I also used a screen capture of the signature on a document and made the image into a Facebook Profile picture.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; Well I didn't know about it. Most folks use Photo Booth to do things like this, I'd guess, but I always appreciate a creative use of a program.]
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<title>Custom margins in TextEdit</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140330121905819</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>There is already &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040428213001127&quot;&gt;an old hint&lt;/a&gt; about this topic, but it doesn't really explain it very clearly, only in the comments.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here's how you can change the margins in TextEdit to your favourite size, so that you can use, for example, the whole space on a sheet of paper when printing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, save your document first as a Rich Text file (.rtf), if you have not already done this. To see the effect directly in your document, open it and enable under the &lt;i&gt;Format&lt;/i&gt; menu the setting &lt;i&gt;Wrap to Page&lt;/i&gt; for your document.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Next open up the TextEdit preferences, switch to the tab &lt;i&gt;Open and Save&lt;/i&gt; and check on the option &lt;i&gt;Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Open the document again and you will see the raw code that defines how the document look like. You want to look in the 4th row, where it says:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;margl1440margr1440&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This define ...</description>
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<title>Paste an address and Contacts will parse it</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but if you copy an address, say from a web site, and paste it into the first address field (street) in Contacts, Contacts will parse appropriately.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For example, try:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1234 Easy St&lt;br&gt;Pleasantville, CA 43402&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When pasted into Contacts it will correctly place the City, State and Zip into the appropriate fields.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; OK, I'll admit I don't know when this was introduced either because I'd long ago stopped looking for it. Nice to know data detectors keeps being improved.]
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<title>10.9: Add an Automator action to Calendar</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Apple removed the option to add an action to Maverick's Calendar app but you can use Automator to accomplish this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I found that if you use Automator to add an action an &lt;i&gt;Automator&lt;/i&gt; calendar will appear over in the Calendar side bar. Then just select the Automator calendar for the item you are adding.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I had to play around a bit in Automator to figure out what to do here, but it looks like creating a Calendar Alarm action will do the trick.]
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<title>10.9: Encrypt/Password-Protect a PDF in Preview</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>With the latest versions of Preview.app (since OS X v10.8, I believe) which save versions of files rather than the old standard &lt;i&gt;Save&lt;/i&gt; dialogues, it took me a while to figure out how to &lt;i&gt;Save As...&lt;/i&gt; and encrypt a PDF file with a password.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While clicking on the &lt;i&gt;File&lt;/i&gt; menu, press the &lt;i&gt;Option&lt;/i&gt; key, which causes the &lt;i&gt;Duplicate&lt;/i&gt; menu item to become &lt;i&gt;Save As...&lt;/i&gt; instead. Then you'll see the familiar &lt;i&gt;Save As..&lt;/i&gt; sheet with the &lt;i&gt;Encrypt&lt;/i&gt; checkbox. Enabling this allows you to set a password for the PDF file.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it works as described. This may be common knowledge, but serves as another example of why it's often helpful to explore the modifier keys in an application before getting too frustrated.]
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<title>Export vector drawings from Keynote to a PNG with transparency</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Instead of buying expensive vector drawing software, Keynote can be used as a simple but great vector drawing tool. The problem is you can only export entire slides as images from the File menu and there will be a white background. There is no obvious way of exporting just the vector art to an image file. Fortunately there is a solution. Use the following method to extract just your vector art creation to a &lt;i&gt;.png&lt;/i&gt; file with alpha transparency.&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Create a vector-based drawing.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Drag and select the entire vector drawing you are going to export.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Choose &lt;i&gt;Edit &amp;raquo; Copy&lt;/i&gt; from the menus.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Open Preview.app.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;In Preview choose &lt;i&gt;File &amp;raquo; New from Clipboard&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;The vector drawing will then appear with a transparent background, ready to be exported as a PNG.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; It seems like a quick, cheap way to go the job. Probably not for all situations.]
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<title>Display iTunes artwork in Growl notifications</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>OS X and Growl notifications are AppleScriptable and great for displaying user-defined text, but not so hot for user-defined images. OS X can only display the sending application's icon, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-support.php&quot;&gt;Growl&lt;/a&gt; no longer accepts raw iTunes artwork image data or regular image files.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Growl's iTunes limitation can be overcome by &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/nfagerlund/growl-current-itunes-track/blob/master/Growl%20current%20iTunes%20track.applescript&quot;&gt;converting&lt;/a&gt; an iTunes track's raw artwork image data into a TIFF file that can be read and passed to Growl: &lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;tell application &quot;iTunes&quot; to set _rawData to raw data of artwork 1 of current trackset _startupDisk to (path to startup disk as text)set _tempTiffFile to (open for access file (_star ...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>Put image/video inside secure notes in Keychain</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I'm not sure if this is documented already. When you create a secure note from Keychain, it will accept an image or movie just as easily as it will accept text. I was able to put an image in one note and a movie in another. You can also play the movie while it's secured inside the note.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Create a secure note from the menu bar, then copy and paste the image into the note. That's it, the image is saved inside a secure note. You're done.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To put a movie inside a secure note, go to the file location on the Finder to locate the movie. Drag the movie to the body of the secure note.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I'm not sure if it's documented either. This is a fairly old submission in the queue, so things may have changed recently.]
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<title>Keyboard shortcuts for conflicting menu items</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>When assigning a keyboard shortcut to a program's menus in System Preferences, you can run into a problem if more than one menu item in the program has the same name.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you describe the full 'menu path' using '-&gt;' as a delimiter between items (no spaces), then OS X will follow that path and select the correct menu item.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For instance:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:320px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;Font-&gt;Edit-&gt;Increase&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The '-&gt;' symbol seems to be used from Mountain Lion and later. Earlier systems use '&gt;' on its own.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't claim to have discovered this idea myself, but the hint doesn't seem to be very well-known, so I thought it should be posted here, if it hasn't already.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Credit goes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://discussions.apple.com/message/20380162#20380162&quot;&gt;this discussion thread&lt;/a&gt; on the Apple forums.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko a ...&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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<title>10.9: View arbitrary number of days in Calendar</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140105062537996</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>The behavior of &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040206171342513&quot;&gt;this hint&lt;/a&gt; has changed slightly with Mavericks Calendar app from the older iCal method.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now you first need to go to day view (e.g., by pressing &lt;i&gt;Command+1&lt;/i&gt;) and then you can use &lt;i&gt;Command+Option+(2-6)&lt;/i&gt; to view 2 to 6 days in the week view.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It would be nice if something like this was also available for month view (2-4 weeks) and year view (2-11 months).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; Not much for me to add here.]
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<title>10.9: Messages: retype last message</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140124230433179</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I don't know how long this has existed (or what to call it), but in 10.9.1, just as one is able to quickly retype previous commands in Terminal by pressing the up arrow key, it is possible to retrieve a copy of entire, previously typed messages in Messages.app with a similar key command.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just press &lt;i&gt;Option+Up arrow&lt;/i&gt; while the cursor is in the message-typing box. How many previous entries it will resurrect appears to depend on how much of the message history is currently in memory. If you scroll further up to load more of the message history, those additional messages become available to the key command.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I believe we called it the command buffer in Terminal.]
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<title>Change background and font size of Notes.app</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131224090922678</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I don't like paper-like background of OS X Notes.app, and the fact that, usually after syncing with its iOS counterpart, the application doesn't remember the larger font size which I've set. Here's how I fixed it to my satisfaction.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, navigate to &lt;i&gt;/Applications&lt;/i&gt; and Control+click on the Notes.app icon. In contextual menu, select the &lt;i&gt;Show Package Contents&lt;/i&gt; item. Then, browse the content of the app's package to &lt;i&gt;Resources&lt;/i&gt;, and inside that find these two files: &lt;i&gt;pad.css&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;paper.tiff&lt;/i&gt;. Make a backup copy of these files in a safe place in case you want to revert back to them sometime; otherwise you'd have to reinstall OS X to do so.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Copy the former into a folder you have write permission for, and open it with any text editor. Just replace the &lt;code&gt;@[FONT_SIZE]&lt;/code&gt; on fifteenth line with whatever font size suits you. I've bad eyes and have choosen 18px. Save the file and replace the original with this modified version.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Th ...</description>
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