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Mac OS X Keyboard tricks Did you kow that ⌥+backspace = delete last word, and…

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:39:00 +0200

Mac OS X Keyboard tricks

Did you kow that
⌥+backspace = delete last word, and
⌘+backspace = delete line
in 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,…

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:50:00 +0200

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 one!

If you right click on the toolbar, there is an option to customize it. However, there is no icon/button available for the Zoom to Fit function, only for Zoom In/Out, and Actual Size. How come that one of the most useful feature is not available here? The key is to create a keyboard shortcut for it and then the icon for it will “magically” appear in the customize menu.

How to add real time effects for system audio on Mac Sometimes you might want to put…

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:08:00 +0200

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 more sophisticated sound processing capabilities at your hands, or you want to put effects on the sound of other applications, like web browsers? We have tons of great (free) VST/AU plugins around, why not running our system sound through them? This short guide is trying to show you how to do that for free.

Change OS X font smoothing in one application

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:21:00 +0100