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Change Default Application

Common Mistake…

Most of the time, the contextual menu labelled Always Open With will be used in order to open file as default application. And this leads to mistake being made most of the time.

Why…?

When a file is set to always be opened with particular application, the change will only apply to that particular file. Let's say there are hundreds files of the same type, changes will be needed for all of those files, what a waste of time!

Solution: Use Info Pane

If the changes are to be made for every single files with the same type (same extension name), Get Info pane will be required. Here are the full and complete steps:

  1. Select a file
  2. Open Get Info pane of that file (keystrokes: Command-I)
  3. Find section with name Open with: and choose appropriate application to open that type of file
  4. Click on Change All… button
  5. Finish! That application will now be set as current default application

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Tags: Default

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Change Safari Default Search Engine

Nowadays, we depend on search engine to get information from around the web. I myself depend very much on search engine. Currently, Safari is using Google as its default search engine.

But here comes the issue, a setting will never satisfy the mind of several millions people surfing the web. Some of us maybe want to use Google UK as our default search engine, some maybe prefer using Yahoo!

With Inquisitor 3 installed on your Safari, you will be able to change your Safari default search engine easily.

Here are the steps you need to do :

  1. Download Inquisitor and follow the installation instruction
  2. After you've finished installing Inquisitor, relaunch your Safari for the change to take effect
  3. Go to Safari ▸ Preferences
  4. Click on Search section to modify settings for Inquisitor
  5. In the last option box, you should be able to choose your default search engine

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