Finer Things in Mac: Archive

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Photo edits made on iOS appear as reversible,... →

Finer Things in iOS: iOS 5 brought some basic editing features to the Photos app. Select any photo, tap Edit, and you have options to rotate, enhance, remove red eyes, and crop. These changes are also reversible, as you can tap back into that photo at a later time and choose “revert to original.” Fortunately, Aperture, Apple’s pro-sumer photo editor and manager for the Mac, also recognizes these...

Feb 8th

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How to follow just the Finer Topics you want

More and more readers are asking for ways to follow just the topics they want on Finer Things sites, and I’m happy to oblige! Bookmark tags One thing you can do is bookmark specific tags, because I try to stay pretty organized and thorough when tagging all posts and reader submissions. If you’re a nut for OS X icons, you can visit Finer Things in Mac, click any post tagged icons,...

Feb 6th

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Feb 3rd

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Collect your favorite apps, files in the Finder,...

OS X’s Finder makes it easy to collect your favorite stuff for easy access. Give these shortcuts a try: ⌘-T will add the currently selected app or file to the sidebar on the left ⌘-⇧-T will add apps to the left side of your Dock, and files to the right side Note: if you don’t see a sidebar or a toolbar at the top of your Finder window, hit ⌘-⌥-T (View > Hide Toolbar) to show...

Jan 23rd

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Jan 19th

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Mobelux: Carousel Extension For Safari and Chrome →

Mobelux has a new browser extension that lets you open Instagram photo links directly in Carousel, its slick Instagram client for Mac. Clever.

Jan 17th

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Jan 17th

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Jan 5th

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Dec 31st

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Watch

Finer Things in Web: The website for Fantastical, a smart menu bar calendar utility for the Mac, uses some clever animation to draw your attention to its interface and features.

Nov 29th

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Nov 29th

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Nice Lion Touch: Swipe for Dock Exposé →

Steve Lyb discovered a handy multi-touch gesture for quickly triggering OS X’s Exposé feature to focus on the open windows of a specific app, instead of all open windows.

Nov 10th

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Nov 9th

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Nov 2nd

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Some of Apple's OS X icons Think Different

The text of “Here’s to the crazy ones” is on the Text Edit icon: Some of it also appears on the new All My Files icon in Lion:

Oct 28th

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Anonymous asked: why do files open that I previously closed when I open applications from the launchpad

Oct 24th

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Anonymous asked: My imac is currently using OS X 10.4.11 as I did not get around to upgrading the operating system. I would like to upgrade it now is this still possible? The next software update seems to be no longer available and it appears I would have to go straight to snow leopard. It is has a 2.16 GHZ intel core 2 duo processor.

Oct 24th

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Pre-order the "Steve Jobs" biography on iBooks and... →

The only biography Steve Jobs ever authorized arrives on Monday. Jobs gave Walter Isaacson unprecedented access to his life, and judging from the teaser snippets they’ve released over the last couple of weeks, it sounds like this will be an incredible look into the life of a famously private genius. If you feel like supporting the Finer Things in Tech, you can pre-order through this...

Oct 21st

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Oct 20th

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Oct 18th

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Quickly open a new browser window and bypass your...

If you’ve closed all windows in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox (but not quit the app itself), you can quickly open a new window without loading your homepage by switching to the browser and hitting Command-L, the default shortcut for placing keyboard focus in the address bar. The new window that opens will default to an about:blank page, waiting for you to get typing. This works at least in...

Oct 17th

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Safari Reading List maintains scroll position when...

If you are in the middle of reading a long article in Safari’s new Reader feature (View > Show Reader) and exit to see the original page, you will resume at the same part of the article upon reentering the Reader view.

Oct 17th

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Oct 13th

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Alfred Extensions & Scripts →

Alfred, a great productivity utility, has an official extension directory that now sports over 100 goodies to do everything from search Evernote, tweet without a Twitter client, and set your Adium status. Note: using these extensions requires a purchase of Alfred’s Powerpack, which is on a pre-1.0 release sale and definitely worth it.

Oct 10th

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Selectively turn off Lion's "Resume" feature when...

Lion introduced a new iOS-like Resume feature that allows apps to reopen with all documents, windows, and settings right where you left them. But if you want to override this setting on an app-by-app basis, simply hold the Shift key when starting an app. It will open to its native ‘clean slate,’ with none of the documents or windows you had open the last time you quit the app.

Oct 7th

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Oct 5th

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Oct 4th

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Sep 28th

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Sep 16th

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When clicking a Quick Look window’s new “Open with Preview” button in its top toolbar, that window morphs into the new Preview window that opens. Classy! The same happens with RTF files and, it seems, just about any files Preview supports.

Sep 14th

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Command-Tab switcher behaves differently under...

Previously, the Command-Tab switcher would keep keep rotating the selection if you kept the keys held down on the keyboard, continuously wrapping it to the left edge after hitting the right. In Lion, the selection stop when it reaches the rightmost icon, waiting for you to lift your finger from the Tab key and pressing it again before wrapping to the left and continuing. This has been done to...

Sep 8th

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Safari restores the buffered state of videos when...

When you accidentally close a tab in Safari and then hit Command-Z to restore it, not only does it restore the browsing history of the tab but it also retains the buffered state of any videos you may have hit Play on before you closed the tab. Here are a couple more pieces of trivia about the undo behaviour in Safari: If you accidentally close a tab, make sure you are not on a page where you...

Aug 31st

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Aug 9th

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Lion displays a Personal Hotspot icon when using...

If you connect to a wifi network created by your iPhone, Mac OS X Lion shows the Personal Hotspot icon (similar to an iPad) in the menu bar, instead of the regular wifi indicator.

Aug 4th

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Aug 4th

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Aug 4th

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Jul 29th

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Jul 29th

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Jul 29th

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iChat lets you scroll back through your recently...

Like many IRC clients and developer utilities, iChat 6.0 in Lion makes it easy to scroll back through the messages you have sent to a buddy and re-send them. With your input focus in the text box, hold the Option key while pressing the up arrow to scroll back chronologically through each message you’ve sent. The messages populates the text box as if you had just finished typing it, allowing...

Jul 28th

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Jul 28th

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Jul 27th

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Jul 25th

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Screen Sharing preserves your scrolling behavior

If you connect (from a machine running Lion) to a non-Lion machine using Screen Sharing, your scrollbar scrolling preferences are preserved. I.e. If you use the new iOS-style scrolling in Lion, scrollbars on the (non-Lion) remote machine use iOS-style scrolling as well.

Jul 24th

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Play iTunes from OS X's album art screensaver

If you use the album artwork screensaver, you can mouse over an album cover and a “play” icon will appear. Click it and a song from that album will play.

Jul 24th

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