Mossberg previews Lenovo's 'Air-killer' X300
The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is real and should have distinct advantages over the MacBook Air, Walt Mossberg says in a preview of the portable. Like its Apple cousin, the X300 will include a 13.3-inch screen and a full-sized keyboard but in a far thinner shape compared to other notebooks in the class through the use of a 1.8-inch hard drive; online st...
published on Wednesday, the 13. February 2008, macintosh-news-network
Quickly open partial Safari downloads
If you're downloading a lot of large audio or video files in Safari, you may want to preview them while downloading. Normally you need to right-click the ".download" file, select "Show Package Contents", then double-click the actual file. But an AppleScript can make things quicker:tell application "Finder" repeat with selected_file in (selection as list) if ((selected_file as text) ends with ".download") then set plist_path to (selected_file as text) & ":Info.plist" if (exists file plist_path) then tell application "System Events" set partial_file_path to value of property list item ¬ "DownloadEntryPath" of contents of ¬ property list file plist_path open partial_file_path end tell end if end if end repeatend tellAssign this to a keyboard command using a utility like Spark or Butler, and call it with the file selected in the Finder.[robg adds: I haven't tested this...
published on Tuesday, the 2. January 2007, macosxhints