Tag Archives: OS X

$ defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

$ defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1
macosxhints.com – See folder content previews in Quick Look in 10.5 and 10.6
(via Ben Ward)

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Make your Dock list view look like this with this quick terminal command: defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock via usingmac.com and davidkaneda

Make your Dock list view look like this with this quick terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock

via usingmac.com and davidkaneda

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Fullscreen Quick Look with Option-Spacebar

Quick Look in Snow Leopard now lets you hit Option + Spacebar to enter a full-screen Quick Look preview of the selected item(s).
Great for large images and documents!

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An accurate progress bar goes a long way

As Mac users, it’s easy to chide our Windows brethren for this, but let’s face it: certain progress bars in Leopard – such as compressing items, or copying from network drives – were far from accurate.
In Snow Leopard, these two progress bars (and others) refrain from the habit of jumping from near-zero to near-100% complete [...]

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