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MAY
13

Firstly, thanks to Hong Kiat, he recommend me this tip. Let me share a bit about QuickLook plugins for your finder extensibility. I believe most of us have already known that there are many useful QuickLook plugins out there. And according to me, these three QuickLook plugins are used the most :

Folder List

With this plugin, you can see what's inside a folder, reveal hidden items and even the exact time of the items' creation and modification can be shown.

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MAY
12

There are 2 ways to export Safari Bookmarks plist file into HTML file, the first one is the geeky way and the other is using third party application. Let's see how it can be done.

The Geeky Way

Open your Terminal and execute this command line, which will add Debug menu to Safari :

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MAY
11

Top 8 Mac Screensavers

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Hyperspace and Helios

The screensaver is nice, giving you the image of ultra high speed. However, They are quite heavy to be processed. They can be downloaded here for Hyperspace and here for Helios.

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MAY
10

Finder - Plain List View

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Activate Plain Finder

If you dislike the blue and white stripes on your Finder list view, you can use following line of Terminal command to make the background display plain white. 

defaults write com.apple.finder FXListViewStripes -bool FALSE
killall Finder
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MAY
09

Spotlight - Indexing

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Prevent Spotlight Indexing

Sometimes you don't want your Spotlight to index some parts of your Mac, e.g. your backup drive. If that's the case, you can set up your Spotlight to prevent searching in several locations. This setting can be performed under System Preferences ▸ Spotlight ▸ Privacy. Adding that particular folder into the pane provided will result in Spotlight stop indexing that folder.

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MAY
04

When you want to check the size of a single file, highlighting the file followed by pressing I (Get Info) is enough to extract out the file size.

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MAY
02

Finder - Icons on Toolbar

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Do you want to use your Finder's toolbar as your additional Dock?

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APR
30

I found this tutorial from Google really useful when you want to create new Gmail account for your Apple Mail application.

Step 1. Mail ▸ Preferences...

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APR
29

Usually, what will you do when you want to start new search with Google search bar on the top-right corner of your web browser? There are three ways to do that.

Type 1. Google Homepage

This is the least advanced way. However, most of my friends still use this way. First, you open new tab (shortcut : T), followed by typing in the url address "www.google.com", filling in the search term and Google will return you the result.

The advantage of using this way is that you can see Google homepage which in special occasion, the logo is changed.

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APR
28

It's quite surprising that when I open my MacBook today, I saw a globe instead of Apple logo. Anyone knows why?

Safari Private Browsing

Ok. Let's talk about Private Browsing of Safari. We all know that with private browsing, whatever we browse won't come out at the History section of our Safari browser. It's quite a nice feature that Safari has.

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