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By: preor

preor — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:43:23 +0000

Thanks for the tips and tricks!

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SOS Media Web Design — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:53:55 +0000

Thanks for the tips and tricks!

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:37:09 +0000

Hi Elliott,

Thanks for your answer. Are there any tutorial sites/examples out there on setting your work station. I need things like PHP, Apache, MySql. I have already setup most of this here and there. Now I can’t PHP to work. When I go to local/mysite/default.php…nothing happens…page will not display.

Thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Michael

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:13:23 +0000

Pascal: Any recent multi-touch trackpad will do it. The best part is, Apple have been quietly releasing multi-touch trackpads for a while. I bought my macbook pro in about February, and it works perfectly.

By: Pascal

Pascal — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:24:34 +0000

Fantastic Elliott, really appreciated. Didn’t know about dragging widgets but now I come to try the magic doesn’t happen for me. Do you have something else running/enabled to allow this to work. I was also really interested in Multiclutch, would I be right in thinking this only works with the new trackpads??

By: Chris Mowforth

Chris Mowforth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:56 +0000

If any rubyists are hankering for a solution to #2, I just wrote the quickshare gem to do the job. As an added bonus it broadcasts the presence of the service over bonjour to save you having to remember hostnames, ports, etc.

By: Matthew Heidenreich

Matthew Heidenreich — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:24:22 +0000

Great list! Knew of most of these, but a few I did not. Will be checking out some of your other articles :)

By: Steve Bissonnette

Steve Bissonnette — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:58:29 +0000

Quick addition to #5:

I think you must have your dashboard set to DEV mode for this to work:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050422172929402

“Open the Terminal and type defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES and press Return. Then logout and log back in again (or restart your dock). Now debugging mode is activated.”

Cheers

By: radionowhere

radionowhere — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:56:03 +0000

Elliott, thanks for the excellent post – love the multi-clutch tip.

Tim, your un-minimize thing is a killer! Anything that leads to fewer mouse clicks is a plus, and this is an especially good one.

Thanks to both of you.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:44:30 +0000

Awesome stuff Elliott. That Exposé / Spaces combo is brutal.

By: Etienne Segonzac

Etienne Segonzac — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:51:40 +0000

I just love #1, it’s like POWER directly in my term !

BTW, if you want to pimp your Terminal.app just a bit more :
This
helps you change the default ANSI colors of the terminal.

Mine looks just like the TextMate theme “Blackboard” now ;)

Cheers !

By: George Hickman

George Hickman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:01:25 +0000

Great post, thanks for the tips.

My terminal looks so shiny now!

By: OS X Tips and Tricks

OS X Tips and Tricks — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:21:08 +0000

[...] Here’s a nice post by Elliot at Carsonified. He lists some of his favorite setups/shortcuts/commands for getting work done in OS X. I recognized a few of these, but there were some others that caught my eye: [...]

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:02:26 +0000

Dave and Michael, your best bet is to use MAMP. I used MAMP Pro for quite a while, and it provides an easy way to set up Apache and MySQL. If you don’t need or want to tinker with Apache, it’s a good piece of starting kit. However, later if you do need to edit the config files, you’ll find it quite tricky. At that point, you may want to consider moving to the built-in Apache. Long story short, it’ll do for now.

Tim: That’s awesome! I didn’t know that one – I’ll be using it.

Jamie: That’s a good point too – you can use Spark, or a cron job, to run any script you like.

By: Dave Marr

Dave Marr — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:52:53 +0000

I am also interested in Michael’s comment — where to save things on a Mac. The ~/Sites folder seems like a logical place, but may require some customization. I work with Flash, PHP, and other languages so things get a bit cluttered.

By: Tim Fletcher

Tim Fletcher — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:02:31 +0000

Great post. Much better than your average OS X tips post.

Once of my personal favourite tips is to un-minimise a window using only the keyboard. If you Cmd-Tab to an open but minimised app, it won’t un-minimise. BUT, if you continue to hold Cmd and press Opt before then releasing Cmd, the window pops up.

Sounds tricky but it’s second nature once you get used to it.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:38:05 +0000

Hi Elliott,

Great OSX tips. I was wondering…would it be possible to setup a tutorial on how to work on Webpages using a Mac. Things like setting up PHP, Virtual Host, where to save your sites…etc. I would love to desgin my sites locally and test locally with out any missing images, then have no problem posting them to the server.

I see that you store all your sites in /Sites/. I would like to preview my page on a local URL. Any thoughts/suggestions?

Thank you,
Michael

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:53:26 +0000

Awesome tips! One useful keyboard shortcut I always set up in FastScripts (an alternative to Spark – which I didn’t know about before) is to show the home folder from *anywhere*. That way, you can navigate your file system very rapidly.. just hit your key combo and bam, another Finder window is open and ready to go. Couple that with Spotlight to launch apps and I haven’t used the dock in months.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:18 +0000

Hey Frank, I’m not exactly sure – but I think it’s \[\033[01;34m\] – from what I recall, the 01 in the 01:34m means it’s light, as opposed to dark. which is 0:34m.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Hey Frank, I’m not exactly sure – but I think it’s [33[01;34m] – from what I recall, the 01 in the 01:34m means it’s light, as opposed to dark. which is 0:34m.

By: Frank Manno

Frank Manno — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:49:33 +0000

Nice list of tips! Definitely some to take away.

Curious… what’s the code for the purple-like colour from your screenshot (the “~/Sites/truvay” text)? I haven’t had any luck finding the ANSI code for it.

By: Jamie Rumbelow

Jamie Rumbelow — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:18:23 +0000

Some awesome tips! I’m constantly blown away by the power of OS X.

A little tip of my own – you can write scripts to do stuff in whatever language you like (*cough* Ruby) and then execute them on a shortcut key – giving you an infinite amount of power.

By: Melissa Leon

Melissa Leon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:10:17 +0000

Elliott I understand very little in this post but its good to see you on the Carsonified blog.

By: Sulcalibur

Sulcalibur — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:18 +0000

As someone that’s still quite new to Mac’s this is a brilliant post. Thanks very much Elliot.