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Secret Images, Hidden Inside Keynote
Playing around with my Keynote, I realized that when choosing our theme for presentation, there are several images attached to the theme. Out of curiosity, I try to seek for those images.
As expected, I discovered those hidden images, unindexed by Spotlight (with dimension of the image remains uncalculated) right inside my Keynote package contents.
And surprisingly enough, there are more than 30 gorgeous images spotted inside; Some of those can even be used as Desktop wallpapers. Seriously, this is my best finding up to now.
Those hidden images are located inside: Macintosh HD ▸ Applications ▸ iWork'08 ▸ Keynote ▸ Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Themes ▸ Shared. You need to take note that in order to access the contents of Keynote, you need to Control-Click on the Keynote icon and choose Show Package Contents.
For you who don't have Keynote installed, here are several hidden images that can be used as your desktop wallpapers.
History of Lord of the Ring
So, today, 24 July, is the day when the ring comes to Bilbo. How could I know this?
I saw that from calendar of Lord of the Ring. This calendar has been stored inside my Mac. You can also find the calendar here: Macintosh HD ▸ usr ▸ share ▸ calendar. You can use this command line to see the calendar:
cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr
Mac Widget: The Hidden Region
When the first time you bought my Mac, I know you will be really amazed with those Dashboard Widgets, especially the weather widget. In my early days owning a Mac, I even gazed at my Widgets for thirty minutes every half an hour.
Let's make things more interesting, do you know the widget that display weather report of certain region? You can select which region you want to display the weather report, but there is one region that I bet you can't find: Nowhere!
Free Download YouTube Video with Safari
Most of us like to watch YouTube, right? (Hope so). And it's surprisingly simple and easy to download those YouTube videos. Do you want to know? Follow next three steps.
Leopard Coverflow - Secret of Icons
9 funny things of your Leopard icons.
Two Secret Features of Quicksilver
Here are two special secret features of Quicksilver that you should know.
Revealing the Secret
- Invoke Quicksilver using keystrokes Command-Spacebar
- Call up an object, for example AppleScript Utility
- The default action will be Open. Press Control-Return instead of Return
- The object and the action will be combined and became Open AppleScript Utility
- Go to action box again, the two secret features will be revealed, i.e. Run After Delay and Run at Time
No QuickSilver, No Spotlight, Simple Fantastic Searching File
QuickSilver sure rules, Spotlight sure rocks, but this interesting tricks cannot be underestimated when faced up with abundant of files inside a folder. It's Searching plus Quick Jump trick, this trick can be done in three easy steps.
- Let's say a file named Search Me is the target
- Search for the folder that contains it
- Then type from the keyboard that file name, s e a r .. until the highlight is moved to the desired file
After get used to it, this trick will become very useful. Also, this searching trick can be used to find top down option in most of web browsers (except IE), for example searching for country.
It's wonderful, yet amazingly hard to be spotted (I use this everyday but doesn't realize it).
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