Sometimes, the font size in incoming mails is really small. And I don’t get it changed by the Pref settings. But this one seems to work:
defaults write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 18
Very interesting website, where one can search for alternatives for specific software products. Type in ArcGIS, and one gets a full load of alternative software packages.
Interesting solution to a problem… here.
a. Use the Symbol font. It has several parts of curly and straight braces and parentheses, designed to stack upon eachother with zero extra leading (or slightly less, if you want a smaller brace).
b. Put these into an Anchored object, anchored somewhere at an appropriate place, so its frame will always keep the same relative position to its text.
c. Well, it oughta look like this. On the left: a frame with three parts of a curly brace. In the middle: some random math. The top line “contains” the anchored object, as can be seen by the ¥ sign. On the right, the anchored object itself, positioned relatively to its anchor.
Tools for some Finder, iTunes etc. tweaks and fixes. Finder Sidebar, many small things.
Keka is a free file archiver for Mac OS X
Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead …)
Nice tool, as this is not build into iCal, for whatever-reason-but-just-unbelievable…
Update early 2013: Hard to find that tool. So, here is the DMG.
Spell Catcher is a powerful, all-in-one spell checking and writing software solution—a program that’s so much more than a spelling checker, its name only hints at its capabilities. With Spell Catcher, you’ll write better and faster—in virtually any application. Use it to spell check e-mails, letters or documents, instant messages, and more! Spell Catcher can watch for errors as you type, and automatically fix common typos. Shorthand Glossaries let you define your own abbreviations for repetitive phrases—even thousands of characters long! Use the dictionary or thesaurus to look up a word you’ve just typed to check its meaning or search for a more precise alternative.
Need to debug AJAX? Beside some tips I found on the Net, here is one I found particularly useful, at least in my current case. Just use a
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
Or
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/error_log
which displays the latest log entries… which can help to solve some major issues.
Adobe® kuler is an online community where you can explore, create, and share color themes. The color themes in kuler are contributed by its users, many of them designers or in the creative business. You can share with the community your own chromatic ingenuity, too.
Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, Adobe® Photoshop®, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.
BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red, BookBook brings three levels of security to your prized Mac. First, the hardback cover and spine provide solid protection from the rigors of the road. Second, the vintage book design disguises MacBook for superior security. And third, the stylish case protects you from being like everyone else because BookBook is totally original, just like you.
ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color-matching application for your Mac that will help you build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. Use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK), create palettes from photos, search over a million existing color schemes, mix colors, create gradient blends, and much more!
As usual: Everything which comes out of Apple’s Shop looks great. Here is the “Environmental Page”, with great graphics, nice graphs, and lot’s of white space… Bravo!
Nice, very nice, the new Safari 4. But, I prefered a couple of things in the old version, such as the Tabs below the top part of the browser, and the loading status bar. Here are the commands how to bring them back.
Creates a birthday calendar in iCal from the contacts in Address Book. Unlike the built-in birthday calendar in iCal, this action allows you to set an alarm for each birthday. You can also combine this action with other actions to publish your ICS file to a web or file server.
CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
3-2-1 is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable. You can label each countdown (useful if you run more than one at a time), enter your own messages (to appear when a countdown has finished) and choose any sound to play.
Nice little Dashboard Widget, which communicates with the Email ToDo List.
When you open a Finder window and start browsing to a folder, do you lose track of the path to that folder? If you do, the Terminal command below will enable path view in the Finder — this means that you will see the directory path to the current folder you are browsing in the title bar, instead of only seeing the name of the current directory.
To make directory paths visible atop Finder windows, open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/) and type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
