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Command-Tab and friends on Mac

Jan 2

Posted by Tom in Mac, Reminders | 1 Comment

Most people who work with a Mac know Command-Tab to cycle through currently running applications, but few know of Command-~ (tilde): it allows you to cycle through all the windows of the current application. No more mucking around with F10.

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How to resize iTunes on OSX

Jun 24

Posted by Tom in Mac, Reminders | 3 Comments

I’ve updated to a smaller macbook – unfortunately iTunes remembered its previous size. Usually you can go to the Window > Zoom menu bar option and resize a wayward mac application, but iTunes just turns itself into a little application – not quite what I wanted. However, if you hold Alt/Option key while you click on Window > Zoom in the menu bar, iTunes will resize itself to fit the available screen area. Weird.

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S3DropBox 1.2 is now released

May 16

Posted by Tom in Mac, My Code | 2 Comments

I love feedback … including bugs (thanks Cam). The S3DropBox will now only permit the creation of a bucket when Amazon S3 returns a HTTP 404 status code in response to a HTTP HEAD request for the bucket prior to creation. The new version can now be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/s3dropbox/.

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