Get colored sidebar icons back in Mac OS X 10.7 Finder
I’m not one to rail against every change in UI to the point that I revert Lion to look exactly like Snow Leopard, but the monochromatic sidebar was a major issue of usability to me. I am happy to make this change as I no longer have to read folder names.
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Twitter for Mac adds a new contextual menu item when you select text in Safari. If you’re a web dev like me, you often want the final item to be “Inspect Element”.
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Files & Folders to disable the “Tweet” service. I also disabled the “Open URL in Safari” service.
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As if I needed another reason not to upgrade to iTunes 10, now they add a stupid Ping button. Get rid of it.
“The mindset that Hackers have is optimized for discovery. The way that Hackers interact with the rest of the world, and figure out what is possible, is what you need for invention—it’s what you need for innovation.”
A family friend of mine, Pablos Holman, speaks on some of the amazing projects he works on at Intellectual Ventures, including:
The embedded video is 36 minutes total but becomes very interesting by the halfway mark.
Dave Shea has the skinny on smaller PNGs. It involves saving 32bit PNGs from Photoshop, then optimizing in Fireworks. Read his post for the full details.
Via 2105.
If you’re making a custom home screen icon for a web site or web app, make the icon 129 pixels square. This will make the icon look good on both the iPhone and iPad screen. (Thanks to Dan Rubin for this.)
Also, instead of “apple-touch-icon,” you can use “apple-touch-icon-precomposed” and the ugly gloss won’t be added to the icon.
I can type pretty fast on the iPad, but the thing that slows me down most is the lack an apostrophe on the first level keyboard. However, if you hold down the comma/exclamation key, you get an apostrophe option. Nice!
Spoiler alert: involves a quick System Pref install, but works like a charm. Totally worth it.
The new MCE OptiBay Hard Drive was created for users who want as much hard drive space as possible … The MCE OptiBay Hard Drive replaces your machine’s internal SuperDrive with a high performance SATA hard drive …
Seriously considering replacing my MacBook Pro’s SuperDrive with an SSD. Read why.
It’s been a while since I’ve used this and it appears to have it’s bugs worked out. By the Quicksilver folks.
