macfidelity

Aliase sind sehr nà�tzlich im Alltag. Ich verwende dies meist fà�r hà�ufig frequentierte Netzwerklaufwerke, die ich mir nicht permanent mounten will.

Mac OS X bietet einen Weg an dies ohne den nervigen Alias-Zusatz im Namen zu erstellen, im Kern ist es aber ein Alias wie jeder andere.

Wie geht das ?

• Im Finder zur Quelle des zu erstellenden Alias navigieren
• Option & Command Keys gedrà�ckt halten und die Alias-Quelle vom Finder-Fenster auf den Desktop ziehen

Manchmal sagt ein Bild mehr wie tausend Worte….

Die offizielle Beschreibung aus dem Hause Apple:

TinkerTool is now available in Version 3.9.

Changelog:

• Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to display UNIX paths in window titles.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to omit the striped background in list views.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to use the spring-loading feature of the Finder also for Dock tiles.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to highlight the current selection when working with stacks in grid view.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to display a stack for recent items.
• Added general preference setting for Tiger and Leopard to set expanded Save dialogs as default when using new applications.
• Added general preference settings for Leopard to set expanded Print dialogs as default when using new applications.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to include entries from the Dictionary application into Spotlight search results.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to use the calculator feature of Spotlight.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to keep the Help Viewer window always in the foreground.
• Added preference setting for Spaces not to wrap around when switching from the last or first space.
• Added preference setting for Time Machine not to ask for backup disks when connecting new drives.
• Added Leopard preference setting to include all system user groups in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
• Added preference setting to enable the full feature set in the toolbar of the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
• Added preference setting to display the computer browser when opening the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
• The feature to reorder and temporarily disable login items has been reinstated for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 or later.
• Added preference setting for Safari 3 not to show a warning when closing unsubmitted forms.
• Added preference setting for Safari 3.1 to redirect all links opening new windows into foreground tabs.
• Improved compatibility with Safari 3.0 and Safari 3.1.
• By user request, an additional explanation dialog was added when users switch off the Desktop background of the Finder.
• In order to avoid unintentional selection of options by mouse clicks resulting from window reordering bugs in Leopard, the empty spaces behind option texts have been made unsensitive to clicks when using certain languages.
• The documentation has been revised.
• The language packages for Swedish, and Traditional Chinese have been removed. They may be reinstated later.

Links:

• TinkerTool

Just found 2 great apps to customize the contextual menu in Mac OS X

• NuFile
• DocumentPalette

About NuFile:

NuFile(pronounced new-file (Nu is a greek letter)) is a contextual menu plugin. It adds a new file menu when you right click at a folder(ie: desktop or Finder background); just like what you can do in Windows. With this menu, you can create an empty file of your favourite type with just two clicks(“it’s just one click if you hold the button down ;)”–Endian). It’s a time saver especially if you have a two-button mouse (ex: Apple’s sleeky mighty mouse) or if you use RazzFazz’s iScroll2. If you like this program, and want to see its improvement please consider making a donation.

About DocumentPalette:

Create new documents directly in open folders

Document Palette runs in the background and allows you to create new documents in the current folder. With a folder active in Finder, press Control+Option+Command+N to make the palette appear, then select the document type you wish to create.

Using the palette

From an active folder, press the key combination below.

After the palette pops up, select a document type and you’re done.

Customizing the palette

You can add any type of document to the palette. Simply create a blank document using an editor, then drag it to the document list in Document Palette’s Preferences window.

Not just empty files

Add files with content to create document types that work like stationery pads or templates.

I am searching right now a solution to create custom contextual menu items for my finder and stumbled upon this document from apple about:

Clearing Finders open-with contextual menu

Quote:

Ever wondered how to “clear” the Finder’s Open With… contextual menu choices of any extraneous or older applications? (This is the menu that appears when you control-click or “right-click” a document icon.)

If your Open With… menu is filled with too many choices to easily scroll through, you can remove the less-commonly used choices. These steps will clear the list except for the most current applications that can open your document.

1. From the Finder Go menu, choose Home.
2. Open the Library folder in the Home window.
3. Open the Preferences folder.
4. Find com.apple.LaunchServices.plist.
5. Rename “com.apple.LaunchServices”, such as to “com.apple.LaunchServices.old”, or move it to the Trash.

The next time you use the Open With…. contextual menu in the Finder, only current applications will be listed. Some items may return if the application that controls them adds itself back to the list.

If you ever need a SVN solution for your Mac OS X, check out SCPlugin.

Developers recently published version 0.7.1 - see the related article about more informations in this version.

Best news first, it is Leopard compatible.

Quote:

I've just put up release 0.7.1 of SCPlugin, in our "Documents & files"
area as usual.

This release includes three significant new features:

  â �� � Fix of a bug that caused us to lose user name and password that
had been entered into the check out dialog,
	unless you tabbed about before hitting (Checkout)
  â �� � Inclusion of Subversion version 1.4.6
  â �� � PGP signature for the image, for your protection

The astute reader will notice that this release does *not* (as earlier
promised) include Subversion 1.5.  That's because Subversion 1.5 has
been somewhat delayed.  Never fear: SCPlugin will provide you with
Subversion 1.5 as soon as it's available.  In the mean time, you can
look over the SVN 1.4.6 bug fixes at

   http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.4.6/CHANGES

This update is recommended for all SCPlugin users.  This installer and
product will work on 10.3 (Panther), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.5 (Leopard),
both PowerPC and Intel, 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Found an interesting hint on theappleblog.com

Basicly the hint is based on the following hint

About:

Take, for example, the Finderâ �� ��s â ��œOpen Withâ �� �â �� � contextual menu item. If you right click on a file, â ��œOpen Withâ �� �â �� � gives you the option to open the document with something other than its default associated application. Thing is, oftentimes youâ �� ��ll see apps in there that have long been excised from your computer. What gives?

Sounds good ? check the links above and read one of those articles. Both cover the topic somehow similar.

OSXDaily posted something interesting here

The geekier amongst us and those familiar with Unix should really like this trick. You can have Mac OS X 10.5 display the full directory path in the Finder window title bar by issuing a simple command from the Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

Then youâ �� ��ll want to kill the Finder for changes to take effect:

killall Finder

and the result looks like this:

To disable the full path title bars and revert back to the default, simply repeat the command with NO instead of YES as the operator:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO

killall Finder

One of the new features in Finder is the option to show a Path Bar at the bottom.

• Select a finder window
• Select View in Menu Bar
• Select: Show Path Bar

A really � useful function.

Leopard (10.5) offers a new “View-mode” in Finder called Coverflow. Many iTunes-users might know that expression already

I like the new view-mode especially for images & movies but after the clean installation of 10.5 many of my movies were NOT displayed correctly in Finders CoverFlow.

First guess….missing Quicktime-Codes. I queried my blog and found my old perian-entry.

After installing the prefs-panel in 10.5 almost all videos work.

Short & quick solution.

Thats a really basic task after installing OSX:

Enable the View File Extensions Switch

To do that:

• Finder
• Preferences
• Advanced
• Show all file extensions