Finder Rotate Images 0.1

After looking for a while on the net, I couldn't find a way to easily rotate images in finder. So I wrote this script that allows to rotate one or more images straight from the finder window, using a keystroke shortcut or what's nicer, the multitouch trackpad of new macbooks. Just need to select the images and run the script. In order to launch the script I use Spark (http://www.shadowlab.org), where I assign it a keyboard shortcut. And to be able to run the script with the trackpad I use MultiClutch (http://wcrawford.org) and tell finder.app to use the same shortcut in Spark. This is my first script. I don't have much programming knowledge, so I accept suggestions on how to improve it. Please contact me at ezetibaldo (at) gmail (dot) com.

published on Sunday, the 28. June 2009, scriptbuilders

Screenshots detail Snow Leopard interface tweaks

Designer and photographer Michael 'Flux' Chang has posted a wide range of Snow Leopard screenshots on his blog. The images detail a number a number of interface tweaks, including changes to the stacks in grid view, symbol substitutions, keyboard shortcuts and the voiceover utility. Apple has also provided new options in the MIDI setup, while enhancing the controls for movie playback....

published on Thursday, the 11. June 2009, macintosh-news-network

KB Covers premieres line of application keyboards

KB Covers has introduced its KB Keyboards, a new line of application keyboards based on Appleís aluminum designs. The series displays shortcut keys for Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pro Tools and Media Composer. A special Midnight Keyboard utilizes black keys, and is meant to resemble the new MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards. With the exception of the Midnight model, each keyboard combines icons and ...

published on Friday, the 1. May 2009, macintosh-news-network

HyperTranscribe 1.5 adds support, enhancements

ResearchWare has released HyperTranscribe 1.5, an update to its application for transcribing audio and video files. The software can load most popular audio and video formats, and provides both graphical and keyboard controls for running, pausing and looping playback. Version 1.5 adds support for more flexible shortcuts, enabling users to insert text with a single keystroke. Also new is enhanced ...

published on Friday, the 24. April 2009, macintosh-news-network

Keyboard shortcuts to various System Preferences

Using my MacBook Air (first gen), I mistakenly hit option-F11 (instead of fn-F11 to disperse all windows), and found I got taken to the Sound System Preferences panel. I tried this for the other Fn-keys and sure enough, I can access Displays, Exposé & Spaces, and Keyboard System Preferences by just adding the Option key to the Fn key.It's easier than right-clicking on the desktop to then access Change Desktop Background, which is not much faster than mousing to the Apple menu.[robg adds: We've covered some of these shortcuts before, at least in passing, for older OS releases and older keyboards, but I don't think we've covered this particular implementation ... my apologies if this is a duplicate, however.]

published on Monday, the 20. April 2009, macosxhints

A possible fix for non-functioning function key shortcuts

I've had a few occasions where most Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts suddenly stopped working (e.g., F9 for Exposé, F12 for Dashboard). Strangely, Copy, Paste, and Cut continued to work. The only solution seemed to be a reboot.I discovered the cause yesterday: Dashboard. There must be some circumstance where it must not properly release the keyboard grab. Fortunately, I also discovered that explicitly invoking Dashboard (by double-clicking on Dashboard in Applications) cures the problem.[robg adds: I haven't experienced this problem myself, but I'd be curious to know if others have, and if this fix works.]

published on Friday, the 10. April 2009, macosxhints

Apps: Evernote, SizzlingKeys, MLB Schedule

Evernote 1.4 (free) lets a user capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform is available. This information is then accessible and search able at anytime. The software can be used for creating notes that handle both text and audio and finding printed and handwritten text within images. Version 1.4 includes several new search keyboard shortcuts and a global new note shor...

published on Tuesday, the 7. April 2009, macintosh-news-network

A better way to handle HTML image downloads in Mail

I am annoyed with the limitations in the way Mail displays the HTML images in messages: you can either enable or disable the display of HTML images, but that's it. If you enable the display of images, well, you are vulnerable to all the malicious spam out there ... but if you turn them off, you have to always go to the Load Images button for those messages whose images you do want to see. Add in that there's no keyboard shortcut for this button, and this becomes a major annoyance. There's also no way to turn on the display of HTML images only for known email addresses.If you feel the same way, I have come with a sort of solution using Little Snitch:Turn on "Display Remote Images in HTML Messages" in Mail.In Little Snitch, remove the option to access by default port 80 for the Mail application.Now each time there's a remote image to load in a Mail message, Little Snitch will ask you ...

published on Tuesday, the 7. April 2009, macosxhints

Quick history browsing in Safari 4 beta

I just accidentally discovered how to rapidly access the new 'Cover Flow' view mode for browsing history in Safari 4 beta.I have my windows set to open with the 'Top Sites' view. From here, hitting Tab will take the input from the URL entry box to the Google Search box. If you hit Tab again (i.e. twice in succession in a new window), the whole window will be replaced with the Cover Flow view of your browsing history.[robg adds: The reason this trick works is that the Top Sites page contains a search box at the lower right for history; it's two Tab presses away from the URL entry bar. Note that this only works if you've got the "Full keyboard access" setting (on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel) set to "Text boxes and lists only." If it's set to "All controls," the second Tab will move from the Google box to the URL bar. I also noticed that the history search box doesn't recognize Shift-Tab to move backwards out of...

published on Monday, the 6. April 2009, macosxhints

Software sleuths unearth details on recent iLife updates

As usual, last week's iLife updates gave little information about the fixes included. Thanks to our friends at TidBITS and TUAW, however, we have some details on the what the updates bring to iMovie an iPhoto. Jeff Carlson, author of iMovie '09 & iDVD Visual QuickStart Guide, dug through the iMovie 8.0.1 update and found four new changes. A new keyboard shortcut has been added for the Split Clip command, an interlacing bug when exporting 1080i footage has been quashed, map locations can now be added via GPS coordinates, and a new 720p HD option has been added to the export presets. Click here to read the rest of this article

published on Monday, the 30. March 2009, ars-technica