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Category Archives: OS X

Shortcut to "Paste: Unformatted text" In Word

18-Apr-08

I hate copying something, say, from web, and trying to paste it in Word (or TextEdit, shudders.. more of that later). Web text always comes with weird web formatting. And I wanted just text. To get the text, and not the formatting, I have to click through Edit -> Paste Special -> Unformatted text -> [...]

Cron & Leopard: Leopard Killed Cron, Use Lingon Instead of Cronnix

18-Apr-08

I've been a happy user of both OS X 10.5 Leopard, and cron (via Cronnix). Up until now. The console said, each time the cron was supposed to be initiated: 14.4.2008 14.4. 22:45:00 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10e220.cron[41090]) Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access Apparently, in Leopard cron is being replaced with launchd, [...]

Tab Completion for ssh hosts

25-Mar-08

Put the following line in .bash_profile in ~. complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh (via macosxhints.com)

Send SMS's From Dashboard via Your Phone

12-Mar-08

There seems to be several "free" and non-free dashboard widget alternatives for sending text messages via internet in Apple's email & messaging downloads page, but none of those free ones covered Finland, and the ones that cost something were more expensive than my current deal. So I tried the two widgets that use your phone instead. emitSMS's number search is faster than [...]

Switch Your Windows Like a Maniac

11-Mar-08

Mac OS X has a Windows like feature to change applications. However, in Windows (ctrl+tab) you change, well, windows - but in OS X (cmd+tab) you change applications. So, if you have a dozen Word documents open and you want to switch to some document other than the latest one, you're out of luck. But [...]