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Open all links in Tabs in Safari

ryan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:54:54 +0000

I used to use SafariStand to force all links to open in tabs in Safari on my Mac (it was the only feature in SafariStand that I used). I recently rebuilt my Mac from scratch and noticed this post describing a hidden preference for enabling this in Safari 3.1+. So far, it seems to be working well.

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Force Safari to Open All Links in New Tabs via MacTips.org

Quick Tip – Textmate Tabs for Editing Files Via Transmit

ryan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:21:45 +0000

I was editing a bunch of files on my server via FTP and was a bit annoyed by multiple TextMate windows for every file that I needed to edit. After a quick search, I found this great post that describes how to configure a TextMate project for files opened via Transmit.

Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit by Stuart Colville

Boot Camp Tips

ryan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:26 +0000

I haven’t actually tried Boot Camp for a few reasons:

I like the idea of running Windows and OSX side-by-side* AND
I don’t have enough hard drive space (I run all my VMs off an external drive) AND
I haven’t rebuilt my Mac in a long time to free up enough space

Yes, I am aware VMWare Fusion has the ability to run a VM from the Boot Camp partition and if I ever get around to freeing lots of space from my MacBook or adding a larger capacity hard drive, I might try this option.

With that in mind, I wanted to capture this post of Boot Camp tips from TheAppleBlog for future reference.

Boot Camp: Taking the Sting Out of Your Sin

Quick Tip – Customize Terminal Colors

ryan — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:40:22 +0000

I use the Homebrew theme in Leopard but found that the default blue color was very difficult to read against the dark background. I found this which lets you customize the Terminal colors on a per-profile basis. Very useful.

Quick Tip – Open Folder in TextMate via Quicksilver

ryan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:52:52 +0000

I wanted to be able to quickly open a folder in TextMate (i.e. as a project) using Quicksilver. Even though it is pretty simple, it took me a little while to figure it out so I figured I’d post it here.

Invoke Quicksilver
Browse (see tip 11) to the directory
Tab
Open With…
Tab
TextMate

Done.

Quick Tip – Lock the Screen

ryan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:07:44 +0000

Open Keychain Access and launch the preferences (Command + ,). Check the Show Status in Menu Bar checkbox.

There will be a new padlock icon in the menu bar. Click it and choose Lock Screen from the menu.

Quick Tip – Resolve NetBIOS Names to IP Addresses

ryan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:54:56 +0000

Sometimes I need to know the IP address of a specific Windows computer on my local network. OS X doesn’t appear to automatically resolve a NetBIOS name to an IP address when using the ping command from the Terminal. So, instead, you can use nmblookup.

ryan@Augustus~$ nmblookup vista-mce
querying vista-mce on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.108 vista-mce<00>

In the example above, "vista-mce" is the NetBIOS name of the computer I want the IP address for. There a number of options for nmblookup that you may need depending on your network. Check the man page for more details.