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Santa Rosa MacBook LED backlight
Update March 1, 2008: More on LED backlighting on the MacBook Pro 15.4″ Probably the nicest feature introduced on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro’s is the LED backlit screens. The reason? Instant brightness adjustment (which Leopard now fades in for that ultra smooth user experience…). When waking up a dozing Santa Rosa the screen (in…
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Quick Look shortcut: Space Bar
It couldn’t be more simple (a bit too simple).ย Want to quick look a file, any file? Single click the item or arrow over to it and hit Space Bar.ย This toggles up the item for viewing in Quick Look.ย Hit Space Bar again to un-quick look it. Update: April 24, 2013: To open up…
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Focus to Menu Bar Not Working
Here’s a bizarre problem: All of a sudden I couldn’t hit the Ctrl F2 keyboard shortcut to set focus to the menu bar. It wasn’t because the shortcut was disabled through Ctrl F1 (by default the functions for keys F2 to F6 are disabled by default), it was due to some bizarre problem with Quicksilver…
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Dual Boot OS X Leopard Tiger (10.5 10.4) Installation
The following is a summary of how I created a dual boot setup of OS X Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4) on a MacBook Pro, keeping the original Tiger installation intact and available through alt/option booting during system startup. Always Always Always make a backup before you try any shenanigans like I do below. The…
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Get OS X Leopard Setup for Ruby on Rails Development
After doing a clean install of Leopard (on a blank partition) and importing user settings / home directory, this is what I needed to do to install the Ruby on Rails development environment on Leopard OS X 10.5. TextMate TextMate transferred OK as an application during the import phase after the install of Leopard. The…
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