Download Files from URLs
Saturday, 5th March at 09:54pm
Sometimes when you get sent a link to an mp3 file or something similar, you just want to download it. Usually you’d have to open it in your browser, wait for it to load and then save it. Here’s what you could do instead:
Open Automator and create a new service, follow the steps in the image below and save it. Then open System Preferences and go to the Keyboard pane, locate the service you created as per the second image, then double click in the circled region to set a keyboard shortcut (I chose ⌃⌥⌘D).
Now I just select the url of the content I want to download, press ⌃⌥⌘D and boom.
0Rethinking the Inspector
Sunday, 31st October at 08:12am
This is a really great idea from Keith Lang, co-founder of Skitch. It’s actually quite an old post now, but I thought it was worth bringing up again because the new generation of small-screened, ultra-portable notebooks will need this kind of behaviour more and more.
Via UI&us
0Zoom During Quick Look
Tuesday, 20th July at 08:30am
Hold down the Option key while your mouse is hovered over the image, and it will change to a magnifying glass. Once you’ve zoomed in, drag the cursor, use the scroll wheel, or two fingers on a trackpad to move around the image. Press Option-Shift, and then click on the picture to zoom out.
Via TUAW
0The ‘Stand Up’ Dock
Tuesday, 22nd September at 07:53pm
An interesting proposal for a neat little change to the Dock in Mac OS X
[Source] via Daring Fireball
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