[tech junkie]

Enabling click-to-dial on Snow Leopard

As a follow up on my Dialectic article, I thought it may be necessary to post some information on how to enable click-to-dial in Snow Leopard. The problem is that Mac OS X 10.6 no longer supports contextual menu plug-ins, so any plug-ins that you had will stop working after you upgrade to Snow Leopard. Replacing this functionality is a much improved Services support and this can be used to dial selected phone numbers from most applications. After installing Dialectic you can do the foll...

Tweak Quick Look to See What Files Are Inside a Folder

At first I thought this might be very gimmicky, like many of the OS X window manager tweaks that are out there in the wild. This one I however found very useful. I'll state up front that if you don't often use quicklook, then feel free to ignore the rest of this article. So what does X-ray mode do for Quick Look? Instead of just seeing the regular folder icon in Quick Look, the folder icon will be semi-transparent, with previews of the folder's contents visible in the Quick Look window. What'...

Old recipients in Apple Mail annoying you ?

I've had this issue myself before and was recently asked by someone else how you can remove old recipients from the auto-complete drop down list that shows up when you start typing an address in Apple Mail. I never really bothered to sort the problem out and rather just worked around it. Now that I've figured out how simple it is to clean up this list, it's probably something I'll do a little more often... Two simple steps: 1 - Click on "Window" on the tool bar (while Mail is your active a...

Automate getting your RSS fix

Over time I've messed around with a number of OS X applications that automate the finding and downloading of content that I subscribe to with RSS. Some of the applications that I have been using have not been updated in a long time and they have begun to become more and more unreliable. Fortunately I recently came across "Automatic": Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if i...