Screen Capturing on Mac – Shortcut
Command-Shift-3 = Captures the entire screen. Command-Shift-4 = Freezes screen, allowing you to select a portion to capture. Command-Shift-4 then press Spacebar = Allows you to capture a specific menu or window. Just move the camera cursor to the object you want to capture.
Instability after memory upgrade on MacBook Pro
If you happen found instability after upgrading memory on your MacBook Pro, I hope this trick will save you from a lot of frustations and data loss like I did. Simple, try to changing the slot. After switching with 4 GB a piece RAM, random lock up was haunting me at worst 10 times a [...]
New package manager on the block for os x, homebrew
I was using combination of macports and porticus UI to get open source application such as wget and such. To day I tried homebrew, a package manager like macports based on Ruby. Quite simple and nice. In 15 minutes, I decided to remove all my ports and go live with homebrew insteadĀ even though the package [...]
Compress files individually in Mac
To compress selected files individually instead of 1 zip files, we need to setup script to handle this. Luckily we do have the “Automator” to seamlessly integrate to finder. These are the Steps for Automator 2.1, should be similar for minor version: 1. Open Automator 2. Choose Service 3. Service receives selected = files or [...]
The Vista Effect
At first I was thrilled to hear that Microsoft about to use Vista for windows successor. Such a nice name but Microsoft sure gave it a very bad name. When users with high expectation teased by “heavenly” words and advertisings and then got smacked with awful product, that is what I called “The Vista Effect.” [...]
Creative Ads
Among many ads, Apple’s Get a Mac campaign ads are among my favorites. It’s simple, Mac style clean white background. Lately they just launch new ad titled “Bean Counter”, it told us about how “PC” spend the money for ads and fixing Vista bugs. The ending is hilarious. You got to watch this on Get [...]