Archive for February, 2010:

How to enable Tab key on OS X modal dialogs

I’m a key accelerator man. I hate taking my hands out of my keyboard just to press Yes or No in a Modal Dialog. Until last week I thought there was no way to tab through the different buttons of a modal dialog.

Luckily I came across an option in System Preferences to enable the tab [...]

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Some little gems on OSX you might want to know

Here are some little things that might speed you up when working on a Mac.
1. View hidden files in Finder
In terminal type:
1defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
To hide them again:
1defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
2. Manage clipboard from command line
To copy the output of a parameter you can use pbcopy:
1pwd | pbcopy
The result from pwd will be [...]

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