When you’re moving files around in Leopard, there’s no real consistent way that the files get moved. When moving files locally, they seem to move on when dragged around. When putting files onto a remote location, they seem to get copied by default. Here’s two ways to override those defaults.
Copy
While you’re dragging something, hold down [...]
How to Move, Copy in Leopard with Drag and Drop
November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: Mac
Disable Bonjour in Cyberduck
November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Every time I load up Cyberduck, I get flooded with Bonjour Growl notifications. Since I never use Bonjour with Cyberduck, I figured it’s acceptable to disable it. It’s a simple Terminal command, like so many other things are in the Mac world. To disable Bonjour, fire up Terminal and execute this command:
defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck rendezvous.enable [...]
VMware Fusion VMs as Apps
October 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
Mac OS X: Last week I showed how to create VirtualBox VMs as applications. This week, I’m trying out VMware Fusion to see if it’s better or worse than VirtualBox. I’m trying to shoot for the same experience as the VirtualBox machines, so I needed to figure out how to create an App using AppleScript [...]
VirtualBox Icons for Ubuntu, Windows
October 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
After creating my VirtualBox applications and slapping them on the Dock, I decided that I didn’t like the default VirtualBox icon for those apps. The problem was exacerbated when I put them next to each other, making them indistinguishable at a quick glance. I figured out how to change the icons for those virtual machines, [...]
Create VirtualBox VMs as Apps
October 13th, 2008 · Comments Off
Mac OS X: If you want to launch a VirtualBox machine directly as an application, you’ll need to know some basic AppleScript. Open Script Editor and enter the following:
do shell script “vboxmanage startvm Ubuntu”
Substitute Ubuntu for the name of your virtual machine. If you’ve got a machine with a space in the name, you’ll have [...]
Tags: Mac
Creating a Fluid-Based Google Reader App
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off
For Mac OS X: I’ve been looking for a solution to feed my addiction to Google Reader without having to go the the website every time. There’s an AIR application called ReadAIR, but I didn’t like it very much. I really like the usability of the Reader interface, so I would be hard-pressed to use [...]
New iPod Nano Design
August 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
iPod rumor season is in full swing. According to some accounts, we are mere weeks away from this year’s iterations of the iPod and Macbook lines. Most rumors I’ve heard about the iPod Nanos are that they’re reverting to the form factor of the second generation. I actually prefer the tall, skinny Nano to the [...]
iPod Rumor Season
July 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
It’s my favorite time of the year. Baseball season is in full swing, it’s nice and warm outside, and the days are plenty long. Oh, and it’s also iPod rumor season: the time of year when anything goes and anyone could be right. iPod season generally exhibits traits such as rampant speculation, [...]
Tags: Computers & Tech · Rumor
Ubuntu-based Mac Theme
July 29th, 2008 · Comments Off
I’m pretty intrigued by the new Macs simply because of the looks of the OS. I’m not willing, however, to fork over all the money that comes with owning a bona-fide Macintosh. So instead, I skinned Ubuntu to look like Mac OSX. I found the tutorial over at Make Tech Easier, and [...]
