Being a blogger, I’m totally into finding new tools that allow me to save time. But who knew that the solution this time lied in Mac OS itself?
Today I’d like to talk about these new “apps” I’ve created thanks to AppleScripts.
Enjoy! ;)
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How To: Save Time with Dropbox and AppleScripts Launchers
How To Get the Black Grid Back in iTunes 9
iTunes has recently gone under a major update with the release of the 9.0 (and 9.0.1) which introduced several new features: a new store, new social networks integration, iTunes LPs and much more.
From a UI standpoint, the most discussed change is without doubt the new white background of the Applications and Music folders.
Now, I want to show you how to get back the much loved black grid.
How To Perfectly Blog With Your Mac: My Setup
Blogging is an art a very few people really master. Besides, finding the perfect blogging workflow is very difficult nowadays, as we’ve got hundreds of apps designed and created with bloggers in mind.
I collected the apps I use most everyday in this post, hoping to give you an helpful glimpse of my blogging workflow.
Enjoy! ;)
How To: Use Google Wave from your iPhone.
Yesterday Google sent out the first 100.000 invites of Google Wave preview.
Which is different from the “Sandbox Developer Preview” that launched months ago: this is a first official beta.
Anyway, if you’re in the lucky ones who get full access to Mountain View’s new communication tool, here’s a tip for you: you can use Wave from your iPhone.
How To: Load GreaseKit Scripts on Snow Leopard
If you spend a lot of time working with your browser, it’s very likely that you’ve heard of Userscripts. As the name suggests, user scripts are small code snippets meant to enhance your browsing experience. Scripts simply edit some aspects of your favourite web pages thanks to some css and / or javascript.
There are scripts that works with google.com, Facebook, Twitter…every famous website out there, mostly. These scripts are usually loaded with a browser extension: on Firefox we have Greasemonkey and on Safari its less known brother, GreaseKit.
How To: Edit .nib Files in Snow Leopard
Following my previous tutorial about How To Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4, you may have wondered how I succesfully managed to edit the browser’s .nib file using Interface Builder.
With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple decided to make it more difficult for advanced users to edit .nib files: that’s part of how they built SL to have a smaller footprint. Indeed, if you try to edit Safari’ Browser.nib file, Interface Builder will say that it cannot open complied .nib files.
As always, there’s a workaround for that.
How To: Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4 [10.6]
Ever wanted to give Safari 4 a fresh new feel? Or, have you ever wanted to use vertical tabs instead of horizontal tabs?
As MacStories readers, you should probably know how much I’m in love with Mozilla Firefox. Most of all, I absolutely love that addon called Tree Style Tabs, which allows you to display all your open tabs as a “tree” in a sidebar.
Finally, I’ve managed to get a similar result on Safari 4, under Mac OS 10.6.1 (but it should work fine on 10.6 as well). Well, it’s a sort of a workaround, but it definitely works.
How To: Replace your Leopard default login background
Have you ever wanted to replace your default login background image?
If yes, here’s the solution: you can either do it manually, via apps or with terminal commands.
Search Wolfram Alpha from Firefox with Ubiquity
Have you tried Wolfram Alpha? Do you think it’s absolutely amazing, but you want to search without going to the website everytime?
Here’s a small tip to search Wolfram Alpha without having to open http://www.wolframalpha.com/ nor going to Firefox search bar:
create a Ubiquity command.
For those who don’t know what Mozilla Ubiquity is, see my article here.