Tag: "osx"
21. July 2014
The power of the power button! (or eject key)
You might wonder what to do with that Eject key on your Mac keyboard, now that drives with ejectable media are gone... or you may not use your power key to its full potential...
Personally, I've been using Ctrl + Eject or Ctrl + Power (depending on… more »
20. July 2014
How to insert Tabs in a textarea (OS X)
Whenever you're on a web page with Safari, Chrome or Firefox and want to type a code snippet (or maybe just align what you type) you might be tempted to use the tab key...
But no, luck it moves the browser focus instead of inserting a tab into your… more »
20. June 2009
How to display Network Shares as Icons on Mac OS X desktop
We had them before, but suddenly in Mac OS X 10.5 they disappeared! However, whenever I want to grab something on the network, my intuitive reflex is to look for the network drive icon on the desktop! :'(I had to dig around quite a while to find teh se… more »
19. June 2009
How to edit your keyboard layout on Mac OS X
One thing I hate about US keyboards is that they don't let me type my French special characters by any memorable strecth -- what's the dead key for the cedilla again? (ç)One thing I hate about French keytboards is that they have all the punctuation key… more »
14. June 2009
Video files in iMovie
I just have to say how much I love the way iMovie '09 handles video files.
When you import video, you can save it to any drive connected to your Mac. It will go to a folder named "iMovie Events" on the selected partition.
Whenever that partition gets… more »