Mac OS X

There is a thing in Mac OS X that really annoys me.. If you have different resolutions and then there is a display icon that appears in the upper menu and it shows an old Cinema Display (the plastic version) and I think that screen is really ugly, and why hasn''t Apple changed it I thought? There are new screens and computers since 10.4 Tiger, but I guess the guys over at Cupertino is just lazy =)

For those using Mac OSX and who have just updated to Mac OSX 10.4.3, Safari now passes the "Acid Test".

The Acid2 test was concieved by the Web Standards Project (WaSP) to promote World Wide Web Consortium Web-based content standards.

So what is the Acid Test? This is best explained from the pages of WaSP itself:
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/guide.html

Not long ago Apple launched Front Row, a program which is meant to be your default media viewer on your iMac G5. In this article I'll take you through Front Row and my opinions about it, since I've tested it and in the end we'll have a view on different projects that are free projects that you could use as alternatives to Front row..

Are you tired of the default Google search bar in Safari?

Inquisitor 2.0 is a great cure for the tiresome Google search. Inquisitor allows live search results from within Safari's search bar.

It's like spotlight for the web built in Safari.. Pretty neat tool!

To download it you have to donate what ever value you want to donate, but perhaps you find it worth it..

Download it here: http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

If you want to learn the OS X command line, but find the available books intimidating, bristle at the thought you should read anything for "dummies," or just worry that you may by eaten by a grue while plumbing the depths of /dev/random, Unix for the Beginning Mage may be just what you're looking for. The book, available as a free PDF download, takes a humorous approach to learning some basic features of the unix shell and environment.

Here is a list of all the shortcuts in Mac OS X.. Perhaps useful if you switched to the mac or forgotten certain shortcuts..

It's a pretty long list, but perhaps useful..

Startup

If you are sending out a group email and want to use a group you have made in Address Book, you can just drag over the group icon from Address Book into the Mail address field. An even easier way is to just type the Group Name in the address field. Mail will recognise it as a collection of email addresses. For instance I use a smart group called Dublin to collect all contacts with an address in the city. Simply typing "Dublin" into the address field will address the mail to all the contacts within that group.
Tested under 10.4

Apple-1>9 (Cmd-1>9)

To quickly load the bookmark bar's urls. For example press Apple-2 for the second bookmark on the list. I wish there was a keycombo to open a bookmark in the bookmark bar in a new tab, but until than you can just press Apple-T, Apple-2 consecutively.

For anyone wondering what to use for there font management needs under OS X Linotype have just released a new version of Font Explorer for OS X. Even more interesting is that they have released it as a completely free product.

It seems to be bastard child of iTunes and Suitcase. It has all of the important features of Extensis's $100 product and includes features from iTunes such as smart folders and an integrated online store for browsing and purchasing new fonts.

If you need to take a nice and clean screenshot of a window or especially a Dashboard widget press Apple-Shift-4 and than Space. The cursor will change to a cute little photography apparatus and you will be able to point to out which window or widget you'd like to take a snapshot of. You will get a png file on your desktop. Note the semi transparent shadows and glows that you get around the widgets when you drag the png into Photoshop.