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Mac OS X Keyboard tricks Did you kow that⌥+backspace = delete last word, and⌘+backspace = delete linein Mac OS X standard text editors (TextEdit, Xcode etc)?

Zoom to Fit button on Preview Toolbar When reading documents with Mac OS X’s Preview, one of my first move is to set the zooming to fit the window width, however, Preview doesn’t have neither a shortcut nor a button on its toolbar for this function. Let’s make …

Recursively unpack zip files in subdirectories Recursively unpack zip files in their respective directories: find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -qq -d "`dirname "$filename"`" "$filename"; done; Clean up the zip files: find . -name "*.zip" | while read …

How to add real time effects for system audio on Mac Sometimes you might want to put some effects onto the audio signal that comes out of your Mac. If you listen to music via iTunes, you can play around with the EQ settings, but that’s not too much. What if you want some …

Compiler bug I’m not sure if my frustration or the feeling of relief is bigger after a several hour long, insane debugging session, eventually realizing that the bug was in fact in the compiler, and not in my code. Dang it, Apple LLVM 3.0! :)