Summary: We dive behind the microphone and give all of you Apple users a slice of pie you don’t want to pass up on. We talk about making your Mac “Slider” friendly and how to put up ladders and crawl out of Apple’s walled garden. We have quite a slew of interesting tips and tricks on how to run “cross platform” applications, files, filesystems and connections through your favorite Mac. Learn and listen to this episode of the podcast that is filled to the rim with community feedback and contributions and great music by Youtube princess Juless. Shownotes. Why ? How to get started. Remapping your brain and your body. Desktop enhancements. Loginox. PathFinder. iTerm 20 Best command line hacks. TextWrangler QuickSilver Crashplan Make executable scripts on OSX. Cross platform applications. Use Virtualbox in Seamless mode. Web tools. Online Photoshop Pixlr Macports. Cronnix. Dropbox Bittorrent Sync Macfuse Tweak code (Copy and paste in your OSX command line) #make dock appear instantatiously defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock #don’t reopen every file when you reopen your app. #in preview defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false #in quicktime defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false #kill the dashboard defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock #show the path in the finder defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES #disable window animations defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false #enable direct scrolling defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO #no more bouncy windows when scrolling defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0 #set time machine backup to 1800 sudo defaults write/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800 #force expanded save-and-print dialogs defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -boolean true defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -boolean true #no 3d-glassy dock defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes #show hidden files in finder #defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE #killall Finder #3d glassy dock defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean no #make hidden app icons semi transparent defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -boolean yes #create a ‘recent items’ stack defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’ #screen grabs in jpg defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg Music by Juless Feedback by Mr Gadgets and Matt McGraw Join the community on Google+
