Ultimate Apple

I just got a .mac account, use GnuPG, and want Apple’s Backup to store my keyring on my iDisk regularly in a custom Backup plan. However, he keyring is by default located at /Users/myuser/.gnupg, which is a hidden folder in the Finder, and that makes Backup’s standard folder and file browser not see it.

However, it is possible to do this with drag and drop. But it works differently for files than for folders. For both types of hidden items, one has to open the hidden folder in a Finder window (eg. Command-Shift-G and then insert the above folder path). The files one wants can now be selected, dragged, and dropped into the list of the opened custom Backup Plan.

If one wants to back up the whole folder instead, one can’t just do it this way. From the Finder window of the open .gnupg folder, one has to open the Information window (eg. Command-I), and then click the triangle to open the Preview row of the Information window. This ico…

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After ‘Leopardizing’ my machines, I couldn’t get my wife’s MacBook to share the two USB printers that I have hooked up to my G4 iMac. I had noticed this new firewall in 10.5, and thought it would be a good idea to “Block some connections” — not really knowing which ones it would block.

Well, it turns out that this setting was blocking the MacBook from trying to connect to the shared printers. Once I set the firewall back to “Allow all connections,” the wife was happy again.

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To print any series of pages from Preview, open the sidebar and select the pages while holding down the Command key to select non-contiguous pages. (Hold down the Shift key to select contiguous pages.)

Once you have your pages selected, press Command-P to print. Note that you have to select more than one page in order to do this — selecting a single page reverts back to printing an entire document.

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When you copy or drag and drop emails into folders or to the desktop, you can view them with Quick Look, just as you are used to with PDFs or pictures. Just hit the Space Bar once you select the file and it will appear.

[robg adds: You can Quick Look your email directly in the Finder by navigating to your user's Library » Mail folder. There you'll find a number of folders that will vary based on your Mail setup. Check inside folders named POP-, IMAP-, and Mailboxes for sub-folders named Messages. Within those folders, you'll find a number of .emlx files; each one is an email message that you could then use Quick Look to view.]

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This hint pointed out that this older hint for running Automator workflows from AppleScript was broken.

But if you saved your Automator workflow as an application rather than a workflow, then used AppleScript to open it, it would run. Although I did not see this as a real hint as opposed to an obvious behavior, it was the only way to get Automator workflows to run via AppleScript — until now. Coming back to this on a whim, it seems the 10.5.1 update has fixed this problem, and the older hint now works correctly. For example…

tell application "Automator Launcher" to open "Macintosh HD:Users:userNmae:Desktop:foo.workflow"

…works as expected under 10.5.1.

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This is the same computer I have and I must say, it is a phenomenal machine. At this price (exactly the same as the Stanford employee discount) I can safely say that you will not be dissatisfied. Keep in mind though, this is probably an indicator that Apple is about to come out with a new model. But for the people who don’t HAVE to have that multitouch trackpad, this is a killer deal. I recommend you jump on it ASAP.

Note: This site has mixed reviews on reseller’s ratings so proceed with caution

Product Page [Onsale.com ] [image via Apple.com]

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It used to be that in order to look at files from the trash, you would have to drag everything out and open each file. It took Apple 4 iterations of OS X to get it right but they’ve finally fixed this glaring issue. As the title suggests, you can use Quick Look to look at files that are in the trash. Just highlight the file and hit the Space Bar.

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One of the most useful features I’ve found in Coda which I’ve been using a lot recently is validating XHTML code in it. With one or two simple clicks, you can get Coda to check over all your code and tell you if it has any errors with validation. It finds where you might have forgotten to close any tags, as well as various other things about your code.

There are three ways to turn on code validation. You can enter Option-Command-V, click on the triangle with an exclamation point in it near the bottom of the window, or select View from the menu bar and then choose “Show Validation Errors.”

Once you have turned on code validation, there are a couple ways of taking advantage of it. One way is to look on the left side of the code, where you will now see line numbers. Wherever you have a validation error, Coda will place a small yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it to warn you of the error. Alternatively, you can click on the two errors beside the validation icon at the bottom of the window to scroll through errors.

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This is for those of you (like me) who tend to scratch disc media. To do this, you need a copy of Leopard, an external hard drive or old iPod (more than 6.4 GB) and Disk Utility (you have this, don’t worry).

First, insert the Leopard install DVD. Then open Disk utility. Click “Mac OS X Install DVD” from the box on the left. Then click “New Image” and let it do its thing (this could take a few hours).

In the end, you should have a file that looks like this:

Next, take your Hard Drive/iPod, and format it with Disk Utility. To do this, click on the hard drive, then go to the Erase tab and select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” if it is not already preselected. Then all you need to do is click Erase and confirm you wish to do so

Afterwards, make sure you have your external drive highlighted and then click the Restore tab. Then for “Source” drag in “Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg” and make sure that the destination is still the external hard drive. When all this is confirmed, hit Restore.

Now you’re essentially done if all you wanted to do was back up your copy of Leopard. If you wish to install Leopard, open System Preferences -> Startup Disk, and select the drive you just restored Leopard onto. Then just restart your computer, and follow the installer’s instructions.

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After a period of hiatus I’m trying Flock once again, and I’m loving it. Before there weren’t many (or any at all) Firefox extensions working on Flock but now every single one that I use is on Flock.

One small thing that bothered me at first that I changed was the default search being Yahoo, and I use Google with conviction, to change this go to the about:config url, and change two settings: browser.search.defaultenginename to Google and browser.search.defaulturl to http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

But other then that there’s is a lot to like, the integration with social sites is awesome; Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and so on all come together nicely. Another thing is blog posting, in fact I’m writing this post in Flock’s built-in blog posting feature. It also is able to use 1Password so that’s a plus. Other than that there’s some other stuff such as: Media Streams, a fairly nice RSS reader for a browser but it’s not going to take me away from NetNewsWire, and there’s a lot more.

The Circle Six blog  also  created a post on some extensions that are working, profile management, keywords, and multi-bookmarks which is here. You can download it here.

Tags: flock, webrowsers, netnewswire, firefox

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