Quicksilver Quick Print Tip

Written on July 23, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

I’ve been a bit light on Quicksilver love lately, and for the fans out there, I apologize. (Though from some of the comments I’ve seen, there are those who appreciate this, so there ya go.) But this morning there’s a great tip that Merlin points out, coming from the Mac Law Students Blog.
If [...]

Quick Tip: Window Title Bar Icon

Written on July 20, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 17 people have commented

Yeah, sorry, I don’t really know how to title this little trick. Let me see if I can set this up so it’s clear what you’ll be looking at, before you actually look. (Or you can skip me stumbling over myself and just watch it anyway…)
When you’ve got a window open - be [...]

Five Lesser-Known Tips on Being an Apple Fanboy

Written on July 06, 2007 by Louis Gray and 24 people have commented

Obsessing over all things Apple used to be a lonely place. Through the 1990s, in the “No Steve Era”, there was a seemingly small group that would discuss the benefits of CyberDog and OpenDoc, run Kaleidoscope themes to show the futuristic Copland interface, engage in live IRC chats during Apple earnings calls, boot the BeOS [...]

Quick Tip: Selecting “Don’t Save” From the Keyboard

Written on June 28, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 4 people have commented

Undoubtedly, everyone’s closed a file that hadn’t yet been saved, and gotten the dialog box asking if you’d like to save the file before closing and losing its contents. In most cases this is probably a nice reminder, but there are enough occasions where I was using a text file or an image file [...]

Quick Tip: Keeping Earbuds Un-Tangled

Written on June 27, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 13 people have commented

Any iPod owner knows that the earbuds cable gets tangled very easily. I can’t claim ownership of this great tip, but don’t recall where I first heard it long ago. Anyhow, it’s very simple to do, essentially giving the “Rock on!” hand gesture, and looping the cord figure-8 wise around your extended fingers. [...]

Reader Tip: Easily Relaunch Quicksilver

Written on June 25, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 10 people have commented

Regular reader/commenter/fellow Quicksilver guru Jono emailed this great tip for Quicksilver. If you’re a regular user of Quicksilver - especially with the advanced features enabled - you know it can act up from time to time. And while Quicksilver can be used to Force Quit or Relaunch other applications, it’s like trying to [...]

Tagging Practices

Written on February 09, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 5 people have commented

My man Raz asked some questions about how to tag your files for use with Spotlight. I don’t believe there’s truly a right or wrong way to do it. (Except for the way I do it. That way being the right one of course…) Here are some ideas that hopefully will [...]

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