Couple of useful OS X Tricks
I just stumbled upon 30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks To Get The Most From Your Mac and I thought I’d write down a couple of tricks I found useful.
Recent Items Stack
Type this in terminal window to show a stack of your ‘recent applications’.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
Show Hidden Files
The following command will show all hidden files in your Finder.
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YESSimilarly, change the last bit to ‘NO’ to re-hide the files.
Enable Safari Inspector
I didn’t know that Safari had an Inspector that looks like the one in Google Chrome. As a web developer, I can say that this is music to my ears. Enable it in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
Better Screen Sharing
When I first saw Screen Sharing on a Mac, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Apparently, there are more nifty Screen Sharing features that are hidden by default. This includes a number of options for adjusting quality and allowed input on each side of the screen share. To turn them on, type this in your Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \ 'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \ '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'
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