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Viewing long file names in Finder

Posted by on 3 June 2007 2 comments

If you are using Finder in column view, it can be very frustrating when viewing file names that are longer than the column width, usually around 24 characters. But luckily, there is simple solution for this – you can click the vertical column divider and move it until file name becomes completely visible.

Even better, you can double-click on it and the column will stretch just enough to display the longest file name in its full length.

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In this case the folder name User Guides And Information was a little too long, but once double-clicked, the column stretches nicely to display the folder name in full.

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The WOW

Posted by on 6 February 2007 8 comments

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Cool Feet review

Posted by on 3 February 2007 3 comments

One thing I always hated on my MacBook Pro was the absence of any feet that would raise the back of the computer, making it easier to type.

Thankfully Cool Feet (by Bluelounge) come to the rescue. Cool Feet is a set of medium-hard rubber feet that lifts your laptop on the back and the front, allowing for more comfortable, ergonomic position of your keyboard. It also lifts your laptop off the desk, allowing for more air circulation that provides better cooling of your machine.

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Cool Feet are easily attached and held by suction cup, so no glue is needed. The pack includes Read more »

Moving Dock in OS X

Posted by on 21 December 2006 No comments

If you are working in a program that takes lots of screen real estate, and the Dock gets in the way, you come to the point when you wish the dock wasn’t there.

Yes, you can go for Cmnd-Option-D to hide it, but maybe you still need it for some reason. So the other solution is to move it to the right or the left edge of your screen. To do this, you open the System preferences, go to Dock settings and select where you want to position it.

But there is a better way of doing this. As simple as it may be, a few OS X users might have not heard about it before.

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Move your mouse pointer to the Dock divider, next to your trash can. Press Shift key on your keyboard, then click with your mouse on the divider and drag it to the right. Your Dock will nicely move to the right edge of the screen. Or left, if you prefer.

Running OS X and Windows at the same time

Posted by on 3 December 2006 1 comment

Ever wanted to run Internet Explorer on Mac OS X? Or maybe Microsoft Word, Excel, FrontPage? Guess what, you can now. Well, sort of.

The new Parallels desktop lets you use a tool called Coherence, it runs Windows in the background, but lets you use Windows applications in the foreground.

When you start Parallels and bot Windows, click on Coherence tool and it will neatly ‘integrate’ your Windows application into your OS X desktop. One thing that looks ugly is the Windows task bar, sitting just above the dock, but there’s a cure for this, too.

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Jasenko suggested to tell Windows to auto hide the task bar, and move the OS X Dock to the right, this way everything looks better.

The best is, the Parallels Desktop lets you switch between two applications on two different operating systems, just like any two applications on one o/s.

But this is where things get really interesting. You can log into the OS X, open Parallels and then boot the Windows installation from another partition, the one you created with the BootCamp.

This makes running Windows and OS X at the same time one whole step closer, something I have predicted to be a ‘Big secret’ in my earlier article MacWorld San Francisco 2007 prediction.

I know, it’s only virtualisation, but think of it this way; BootCamp loads at the base of the boot process, defines partitions and decides what OS to load. Once OS X has loaded, an application within OS X (Parallels) boots another OS from another partition and lets its application run on host OS desktop.

Apple now has dual core processors in all their computers. All they need to do is; enable BootCamp to control processor, that is – let it assign one core to each operating system, then boot OS X and let it allocate memory and manage devices availability, then boot Windows.

I think we are close to switching between operating systems just like we are switching today between user accounts, or maybe even between applications.

[tags]OS X, BootCamp, Parallels, Windows, MacWorld, IE7 on Mac [/tags]

Say – a cool terminal command

Posted by on 26 November 2006 5 comments

Another jaw-dropping feature of Mac OS X when showing off to your friends – open the Terminal (~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal ) and type say command, followed by any text.

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For example type: say I like silvermac and press return. Your computer promptly does what you asked it do do, it says I like silvermac.

[tags]OSX, terminal, cool, say[/tags]