March 2011
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Target Disk Mode gets Thunderbolt icon, picky
A new MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt running in Target Disk Mode will display a new Thunderbolt icon along with the traditional FireWire icon. Once you plug in a cable for either connection, the other icon will disappear. Unplug the cable and the icon returns.
Photo courtesy of Patrick Scott
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OS X Lion Interface Tweaks - UsabilityPost →
Dmitry Fadeyev found some of the more subtle changes Apple has made so far.
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PSA: RSS turbulence, please check your feed reader
A good number of you recent readers are following Finer Things in Mac in your favorite feed reader at feeds.feedburner.com/FinerThingsMac. To you, I say: thank you very much for reading, and you are always welcome to submit your own handy tips and appreciated polish for your favorite Mac apps.
Due to a technical quirk over the last couple of months, however, I also must announce that we’ve...
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Get a file's icon as an image
In the Finder, select any file, and choose Edit > Copy (⌘C). Open Preview.app and select File > New from Clipboard (⌘N). The file’s .icns images are imported immediately as high-res graphics, one page for each icon size that is included in the file’s bundle.