Create New Folder in List View 1.0
Finder, when in list view, will create a new folder at the root of the view. This script will create a new folder within the scope of your current selection. -if you select/highlight a file it will create a new folder as a sibling to the file. -if you select/highlight a folder it will create a new folder as a child of the selected folder. You'll probably want to use it via Spark or Quicksilver with a keyboard shortcut.
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, scriptbuilders
10.5: Safer sleep during networked Time Machine backups
The problem: You have Time Machine set up using a sparsebundle on a network drive, such as a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme-connected hard drive. Most of the time, everything works great. Consider this reproducible scenario, however:You are working away at home and a hourly backup starts. Time machine automagically mounts the sparsebundle.You need to leave and put your laptop to sleep, not paying attention to the fact that time machine is working.You move your laptop to work/school and wake it up.The sparsebundle is still mounted, but obviously does not work. Finder and Spotlight grow increasing stuck until you have to reboot your machine. It occurs to you that the image back home was not closed properly and that eventually, this will corrupt your backups!Solution:Install SleepWatcher (I ...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macosxhints
Use Quicksilver for Finder cut and paste
For those of us who miss being able to cut and paste in the Finder, I just found a pretty functional way to do it through Quicksilver triggers. Here's how: Invoke Quicksilver (probably by pressing Control-Space) Press Command-, to open its preferences Go to Preferences » Application, and make sure 'Enable advanced features' is checked Go to Catalog » Quicksilver and make sure 'Proxy objects' is checked Go to Triggers and click the plus sign to add a new trigger and select Hotkey Start typing Current Selection, and when the item pops up, press Tab Start typing Move to... and then press Tab In the last box, press Command-X clear the field. It must be completely empty for this to work -- no text, nothing Click Save Click the 'i' at the bottom right of the screen to show the trigger options Under hot key, choose your preferred ke...
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macosxhints
10.5: A simple fix for a vanishing boot disk icon
Under some unknown circumstances (I haven't been able to consistently duplicate the issue), it happens that the system's disk icon vanishes in Leopard. Toggling the Show Hard Disks setting in Finder's preferences has no effect, and the various repairing tricks do not solve the issue.What happens is that the system disk (by default, named Macintosh HD) becomes marked as a hidden (invisible) file. Why? Who knows. But fortunately, it can be reverted to visibility with a simple Terminal command:sudo chflags hidden "/Volumes/NameOfTheVolume"To make this work, change NameOfTheVolume to the actual name of your system disk. Note that the chflags can be useful for hiding/unhiding regular files and folders, too:$ chflags hidden "/path/to/file"$ chflags nohidden "/path/to/file"
published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macosxhints
DealNN: SD memory, WiFi finder, Philips LCD HDTV
Today's DealNN deals include a variety of products ranging from flash cards to LCD HDTVs. Starting at $9 is the Transcend 2GB SD memory card from Abt.com. The Kensington WiFi finder plus is priced at $14 at NothingButSoftware.com. Buy.com is offering the PolkAudio miDock Portfolio iPod speaker system for $37. The James Bond ultimate collectors set on DVD is available at Amazon.com for $89. La...
published on Friday, the 14. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apps: A Better Finder Attributes, Password Repository
A Better Finder Attributes 4.8 ($15) gives users access to attributes that are not regularly available from the Finder. Users can edit the files modification and creation date and time, allowing users to set pictures dates and times to those of when the picture was taken. Version 4.8 now allows the removal of file create and modification dates so that they display as "--" in the Finder. The new ve...
published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
Developer / Product Page: CocoaTech Price: $40 ($20 upgrade from prior versions; free demo available)This week's Pick of the Week is a two-time repeat winner...though its first win was actually many years ago, and under a different name. It was, in fact, the third-ever Pick of the Week, way back in March of 2002. At the time, the program was called SNAX, and it was a replacement for the Finder. Then, in December 2006, version 4.5 won again. Now, just under two years later, I feel the need to reward it again. Why again, you may ask? Because Path Finder 5 is a great upgrade from version 4, and has finally become my full-time Finder replacement. I've used the prior versions off and on o...
published on Monday, the 10. November 2008, macosxhints
Make iTunes play louder...
Given the title, you might think that this either isn't a hint, or it's a "give-me-a-break-mike" hint at that. But hang with me.I've always been frustrated that my wife's iBook way outshined my MacBook when I played iTunes -- even with iTunes and internal volumes set to max. Then Leopard comes, and I did a Quick Look on a music file in the Finder (select the file and hit the Space Bar). I noticed that the Finder played the song much louder than did iTunes.Eventually, I figured out that if in iTunes you enable the equalizer (Window » Equalizer then click the On button), and set the Preamp to its max, the volume now matches the volume of Quick Look in the Finder, less any adjusting on the equalizer. I already had the equalizer on, but the Preamp was set to 0.
published on Tuesday, the 4. November 2008, macosxhints
Apps: iTunes Dupe Barrier, A Better Finder Rename
iTunes Dupe Barrier 1.2.3 ($10) allows users to search through their iTunes and iPod song databases to find duplicate songs. The update has fixed several bugs including incompatibilities with iTunes 8. [Download - 2.1MB]...
published on Monday, the 3. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Quickly zoom photos in iPhoto's browse mode
When viewing photos in the grid layout of iPhoto '08 running on Leopard, simply press the spacebar to zoom the selected image to full size of image browsing part of the window. Press the Space Bar again to return to the grid view, or use the Left and Right Arrow keys to scroll through your images.Of course, this seems intuitive if you use QuickLook in the Finder a lot or use the this hint for a similar effect in the Media Browser, but it's not documented anywhere so I hadn't tried it.It's a huge help to use this function to quickly look more closely at a few images while still taking advantage of the normal grid view to quickly browser through the rest of the image library. No more switching to full-screen mode or zooming in and out just to examine a few images.[robg adds: I don't think this is exclusive to iPhoto '08 or Leopard; I recall it working in older versions of iPhoto...
published on Thursday, the 30. October 2008, macosxhints