random musings from a twisted mind
Posts tagged macos
recent applications window
Feb 7th
This little snippet will give you a new little window for all those recent applications you launch – I seem to have picked up a habit for closing applications down when I stop working with them for an hour or two (pages etc.)
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add \
'{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
killall Dock
rss browsing on macos
Jan 11th
Hmm, so far in the last month or so I’ve been slowly running into issues with Mail.App just deciding not to download/refresh RSS feeds until I explicitly tell it to (which is annoying to say the least). So first had a play with Endo which is pretty good – apart from the annoyance that I have enough busy RSS feeds (blogs.sun.com and java.sun.com for instance) that the only real way to keep on top is to use Apple + 9 to only show unread posts.
The does have the little drawback that I then lose sight of the ones I’ve tagged – and it is a global option across all groups – yuck. So having just exported my feed list into OPML and then imported into NetNewsWire and it just worked (also looks a lot more like a mail client which i prefer)
Will have to see how it goes . . .
the leopard has it’s cafine!
Jan 10th
Hopefully I wont get into trouble from apple for even mentioning that they posted a new preview for java 6 on http://developer.apple.com/ on 18th Dec 2007
I’ll have to install and see how well it runs!
has the leopard got new spots
Oct 30th
Well I was such a little fanboi that I’ve got leopard installed, things that I’m interested in:-
* RSS reader in mail
* spaces
* calendar App showing todays date
Things they didn’t mention which i think are good:-
* Tabbed terminal windows! Apple+T for a new one, Apple+}|{ to move between tabs
Aside from that, the coverflow-esque viewer to finder is quite nice – and pretty quick too. Admittedly, zfs is there – but no zpool create yet 
Think i’ll have to get the developer kit for that one.