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Mar 19
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Hi,
just a little update: I have finally finished my master’s thesis and will soon continue to work on BetterTouchTool, BTT Remote, BetterSnapTool, and maybe even Secondbar
Cheers,
Andreas
Hi, just a little update: I have finally finished my master’s thesis and will soon continue to work on BetterTouchTool, BTT Remote, BetterSnapTool, and maybe even Secondbar Cheers, Andreas
I just replaced my complete Mac setup from an iMac + Macbook Air to a Retina Macbook Pro + a Thunderbolt Display, which is a reallllly great combination. Unfortunately there are some apps that don’t support the retina mode yet. Eclipse is one of them. If you have a retina Macbook Pro and want to use Eclipse or any Eclipse based application it will look quite ugly with current versions. A workaround (at least for the pixelated fonts) is to open the eclipse.app bundle and add this key to the Contents/Info.plist: NSHighResolutionCapable and set it to YES. (Easiest to do with a plist editor like the one included in Apples developer tools) Because Mac OS seems to cache the info.plists you may have to logout and login again, or alternatively copy the app bundle and insert it again at the same location. Then delete the old app bundle. This may also work for other applications where the “Open in Low Resolution” checkbox is greyed out if you right-click on an app and select “get info”. After adding this key to the info.plist of the app, the “Open in Low Resolution” checkbox will be accessible.
I always hated this behavior of Preview: If I double-click a picture in Finder the picture will open in Preview. But I ALWAYS double-click the wrong one and then I just want to cycle through the pictures of the folder in Preview in order to find the one I wanted… which unfortunately is not possible. (As far as I know) So I just wrote a very little tool. It’s completely faceless and doesn’t do much, but I hope it’ll save me some frustration. This little tool has only one purpose, if you open a jpg or png file with it, it’ll open all the other jpg and png files in the current folder with Preview too. The one you double-clicked will be the selected one in Preview. I don’t know if I’m the only one who doesn’t like the standard Preview behavior here, but you can download my little tool here (Lion only) if you want. In order to use it, just rightclick a jpg/png file, click on “get info” and change the “Open With:” to PreviewOpenAll (see http://d.pr/acBA ) then click “Change All”
//edit, uploaded a new version, improved the ordering of the files in preview a bit.
So Apple finally announced that all App Store Apps must implement a technology called Sandboxing starting from March 2012. Sandboxing is a technology which forces Apps to run in a box with a lot of restrictions. It’s a bit like on iOS where every App only has access to its own data. Apple claims it’s for security reasons… So what? This means the App Store will be even more crippled than it currently is. Many Apps which are currently in the Store will cease to exist. Here a few types of applications that won’t be allowed to the App Store anymore:
This means, BetterSnapTool won’t be allowed in the App Store anymore starting from March 2012. But don’t worry, I’ll continue releasing updates for all existing customers here if Apple really enforces Sandboxing. Also in my opinion Sandboxing causes a big security problem. If developers won’t be able to release security /bugfix updates for their existing applications anymore, all remaining bugs will stay there forever without any possibility to contact existing customers and warn them. Sure you may say “ok, so distribute not over the App Store”. But this will become more and more complicated because most users like the App Store and Apple invests in marketing the App Store as “the only secure way to obtain software”. Also new technologies like iCloud are only allowed to be used for App Store apps. Many, many developers don’t want Sandboxing and I hope Apple will listen to them and at least make it an optional technology.
I just found Totalfinder by Antonin Hildebrand : http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ you should definitely try this. It finally allows me to have a finder that orders folders on top. Unfortunately it requires SIMBL and is alpha but I installed it and didn’t encounter problems yet. One thing: it doesn’t harmony with the window moving features of BetterTouchTool (it works but only if you have enabled the “window under cursor” and then hover the top of the Finder window while moving the window). Antonin already said he’ll fix it I like having the folder on top sooo much
A friend of mine (Christian Ziegler) just released a neat little tool called Core Renamer Core-Renamer is a free and easy to use, lightweight filerenamer for Mac OS 10.5+. It supports basic renaming operations like delete, replace, insert on an arbitrary amount of files.
I encountered many freezes since I upgraded to Snow Leopard. (Beachball appeared for about 20 seconds and the GUI didn’t respond) Yesterday I found the problem. So if you have those freezes too, and you have installed Growl (maybe it came with Adium or something), deactivate Growl in your System Preferences or install one of the Growl betas. //Update: Growl seems to be not the only problem. When using Safari freezes occur sometimes too… in /etc/log/System.log something like “INSERT-HANG-DETECTED” shows up. Hope they fix those freezing issues soon. Some people reported booting in 64bit mode solves the problems… //Update: booting to 64Bit solved the freezing issues for me. (Hold 6 and 4 while your mac starts up, you can release the keys if the spinning wheel appears) //See newer update at the end of this post! For booting in 64bit permanently you have to edit If you have efi64 you can make it permanently boot in 64Bit:
//update: a few days after booting in 64bit the freezes came back… but I think this finally did the trick : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 Since I did this SMC Reset on my Macbook Pro 13″ (current generation) everything seems to work perfect (even Safari!!) //update: in the meantime apple released the so called “performance update” which seems to care about the freezes too. If the last steps didn’t help you don’t bother installing it. |