If you are like me you have hundreds of Finder windows open. Each window is a different folder which I am working one. I can quickly move between each one. Life at this point is good. But when I have to open or close a file in any application I then have to navigate to this folder and open the folder. But it takes so long to navigate to a folder especially if it is 10 folders deep and not in the recent places list. There must be a quicker way.
This post is a proper hacking post. It is designed to go into the core of the Mac OS X operating system and enable you to change some of the strings that control certain parts of text on your system. For example with this post you will be able to change the new folder name, as well as various other parts of your operating system. Once you get the hang of it you will be able to hack and crack your way to a computer system the way you like it.
Yesterday in my previous post on a Anti-Robber Script I mentioned how you can run your script through email. This post will hopefully teach you the simple way of controlling your Macremotely over the Internet. This is designed so you can quickly tell you computer when you are at work to do specific tasks without the need for logging in via SSH or some complicated method. Although you can only do basic things with this tip, it is simple to perform and doesn’t take long to learn, or much technical know how.
If you are on a Mac a lot and you are writing documents that involve the command, option and control keys for shortcuts, you may be interested in this small work around to automatically display the symbols in your current Word documents. It takes a couple of minutes to set up. But once as you get it all correct you can really improve the quality and output of your documents.
A while ago I mentioned about Gawker, the time lapse movie create which could take inputs from your video cameras or desktop and create them into a Time Lapse movie for you. I found that program really useful and interesting. But what about if you want to do it yourself. For example you have some image files taken from a normal camera and you want to string them into a movie. The answer is very simple and uses Quicktime.
If you are a developer of applications you may want to switch off CPU cores so that you see what happens to them if you are running your apps on a different system. Turning off CPU cores is a very simple but it does take a lot of finding and can be very temperamental, and not work. You may with this hack experience kernel panics and other problems. So your mileage may vary.
