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Easily Copy Selected Text to a Text File using a Custom Automator Service on the Mac

October 30, 2011

My primary method of collecting research information while browsing the Internet on my Mac is to clip them as rich text or save links and URLs to Evernote. There are times however, when I just want a quick way to copy and paste whatever information I select as pure text into a simple text file. [...]

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Safari 5.1 – Find or Search a Partial Word or Text Substring

October 30, 2011

The new, default Safari 5.1 behavior for finding text on a webpage (keyboard shortcut command+f) is “Starts With”, and not “Contains” like it was in older versions. This means that if you’re looking for the word “Expression”, you’d have to begin by typing “Exp”. Entering a portion of the word by starting somewhere in the [...]

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Show the sidebar in Preview

October 30, 2011

In Mac OS X Lion, when you open a single PDF document in Preview, you won’t see the sidebar. This is the default behavior in Lion, unlike in older versions of Mac OS X where the sidebar is visible, showing the table of contents or thumbnail images representing the individual pages of the document. To [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts to Move Files in Finder

August 18, 2011

Since switching from Windows to the Mac in late 2007, I’d always wanted a way to cut and paste files from one folder (or directory, in Windows parlance) using keyboard shortcuts. In Windows: You first select one or more files. Press Ctrl+X to “cut” those files. Navigate to the destination directory. Press Ctrl+V to “paste” [...]

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Safari Web Content Process (Safari 5.1, Mac OS X Lion)

July 23, 2011

Launch Activity Monitor, show All Processes, filter on “saf”, and you’ll notice that Safari 5.1 now has a new running process named Safari Web Content. [Click for a larger image] The reason for this is described well in this article titled “Major overhaul makes OS X Lion king of security“: With virtually all browser exploits [...]

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Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Combo Update and Update for Early 2011 MacBook Pro

March 22, 2011

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.7. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X. A [...]

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Snow Leopard 10.6.5 Combo Update

November 11, 2010

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.5. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X. See [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Combo Update

November 1, 2010

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.4. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X.

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Managing multiple monitors, secondary screens and the command menu on the Mac

October 14, 2010

“noexpectations” made the following comment on AppleInsider: MAC OS X is a pain for concurrent, multiple monitors. I move my app to the secondary screen but the command menu is stuck on top of the first screen. Is there a fix for this? “DocNo42″ proposed the two solutions, as well as a vs. comparison to [...]

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