Comments by user "mojo2012"
Registered since: September 27, 2008
Macbook: Lowest brightness level (black screen) is a bit misleading
I often just set the display brightness to the lowest value. Though I've additionally turned on the screensaver (black screen and the password protection.
If I come back to my MBP and hit a key, the password box shows up and the display is automatically set to the second last value.
This behavior is new in Snow Leopard, afaik. In Leopard the screen stayed black.
Apple! Stop stereotyping PCs!
To be honest, I find this quite refreshing ;-)
Btw, some other icons, eg Keynote, have such "eastereggs" as well.
But you're right, if they want to use such icons, then they'll have to add special icons for linux as well, eg a Monitor showing X11 errors on the console ;-)
Pages: Enable copy for selected text of a given style
What happens if you press cmd-c after you clicked the menu entry?
There is no native support for read/write NTFS in OS X
Snow Leopard includes NTFS write support, but it is disabled by default.
I enabled it and tried it out. Writing and deleting worked so far. But unmounting the drive is not possible - gives me a "grey screen of death".
Here is a guide, if you want to try it out: http://www.tool-box.info/blog/archives/1193-On-...t-in-Snow-Leopard.html
QuickLook of a .pps file in SnowLeopard is not as sleek as it is in Leopard
Yep that's true. I constantly try to use the arrow key to move slides up or down and end up seeing a different file ...
Stacks: show an icon for each kind of stack
This is finally is solved in snow leopard, though it's done with overlay icons. Instead the folder icon is shown.
Now there are two options, show as "stack" or as "folder". In Leopard, showing as folder was possible, but then the stack acted as link to the folder. Now it works correctly.
Feature Request: Java 1.6 for Leopard 32bit
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"Different" shutdown menu in the new Snow Leopard (10.6)
Are you sure. I'm running snow leopard atm, and if is press the power button om my macbook pro or use the key combo ctrl-eject, it works as in leopard: restart is selected and shut down is blue/grey. So I can use space bar to restart and return to shut down.
Edit: I found the solution. You have to enable "keyboard controll" in the keyboard prefpane on the second tab. If this is enabled, you can tab through all widgets.
Mail: three pane view
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Sound Up and Down in MBP
First, this is not a help forum or anything like this. Aquataskforce is about user input to improve the Mac OS X experience.
I realy doubt, that this is a fault of Mac OS, maybe the VCD has some errors ... (are/were there any "legal"/buyable VCDs? ...)
Better mouse acceleration curve / Better "mousing feeling"
iMouseFix doesn't "fix" the mouse! What it does is to completely disable the acceleration - at least in newer OS versions. I tried it and it doesn't make anything better ...
USB overdrive really solves the problem, I'm currently using it with my mightymouse bluetooth (what a crappy mouse ...) and it works perfectly.
Nonetheless, I think this is worth to integrate an option for those who feel uncomfortable with the mouse acceleration curve.
Finder: NEW small symbols list view
That's exactly what I want too.
@carlosfonseca: I know that some guys here always vote negative, if they don't need a feature. That someone else needs/would like to have a feature is unimportant!
As I understand this platform, we should vote if something would enhance the platform, if something is better than the current situation. I personally, vote + if I someone suggests something that sounds good to me - I don't care if I need this or not. But most of the mac gurus are not so open minded ...
Finder: use the searchbox for filtering of folder contents
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Multimonitor: autodetection fails after unplugging second monitor
Using two screens makes no sense in my setup, because I cannot put the two devices side by side. And turning my head 90 degrees to the left would do more hurt than it would help ... The size difference is to big as well.
I don't want to put the machine to sleep just because I want to disconnect the monitor. Btw, this sometimes causes problems too with the login box shown on the disconnected second monitor.
The solution is not to circumenvent the symptom but to cure the reason (fix the bug).
Finder: select files with keyboard (Part 2)
Wrote on March 31, 2010, 7:22am
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