Most all web developers, most certainly those who work with Firefox, are familiar with Firebug. This tools nevers ceases to amaze me, the ability to change information (for example style attributes) on a webpage as your are viewing the page, is amazingly useful. Version 3.x of Safari now includes the option to enable a Firebug like debugging tool called Web Inspector…
You won’t find access to Web Inspector in your default installation of Safari. However, making the necessary configuration changes is as easy as running the following command from a Terminal:
If you prefer, you can use the Property List Editor to set the WebKitDeveloperExtras property in the Safari property file, which is located here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safai.plist (use Finder to locate the file and double click to open). You’ll need to restart Safari after making the changes to enable Web Inspector.
To open the Web Inspector, right click and choose Inspect Element as shown in the figure below:
We all know that installing 4gb of RAM will speed up a Macbook and make the whole experience that little bit more smoother and quicker - but what can you do NOW for FREE that will help speed your bundle of joy along and keep it’s user happier? I will tell you 6 things that will help.
1. Remove files from the desktop
Each time that OS X loads it has to index the contents of the desktop, create thumbnail icons for each file and catalog the contents of each folder there.
Do yourself a favor and move those files to the relevant folders they belong in. This will increase the speed at which your desktop loads and therefore make your Macbook faster.
2. Remove unwanted start up applications
Go into System Preferences and User Accounts. View the list of applications that have been set to start against your user name and remove (untick) any that you don’t need any longer.
It’s great to have iChat start automatically - but not essential.
You can view a list of applications running in the background by using the top command from the Terminal window or by using the Activity Monitor application.
Dictionary - With Dictionary as a part of Mac OS X (10.4) there is a feature that not too many Mac users know about.
When in any of the Cocoa (Mac native) applications you can hover your mouse above the word and press Ctrl-Cmd-D on your keyboard. You will get the Dictionary description for that word. Just move your mouse over to any other word and the Dictionary description for that word is displayed instantly.
And no, you don’t need to have Dictionary open at all.
A few examples of applications where this works are; Safari, Mail.app, MacJournal, TextEdit, Text Wrangler, Comic Life, iWeb. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with any of the Mozilla applications, including Firefox, Camino and Flock.
Invert screen
Another function that not too many Mac users know is “Invert screen”. Just press Ctrl-Option-Cmd-8 on your keyboard and see your Mac invert its colours.
This would be funny if you go to the Apple shop and do it so you can watch the salesperson freak out.
I wanted to get a TV show from my Comcast DVR and burn it onto a DVD that I could play at a later time… I know most of you are thinking, “Wait… why wouldn’t you just hook up a DVD recorder to your cable box via firewire and hit record?”
Well, I suppose I wanted a challenge. Anyway, I thought I would pass it along for your general consumption. This is written by a video newbie, for a newbie… This is educational only. Don’t steal stuff… don’t break copyrights, etc. I did this as an adventure into video formats… I hope you find it enlightening. I am not a video professional. I am a casual consumer mac user… I know you are probably smarter than me. If you have useful comments, please leave them.
Perhaps some one else has figured this out already… but if not, I’ll share how I got it working.
First things first. I have Comcast Digital Cable (in Denver, CO) with a motorola DCT-3412 DVR. I am running Tiger on an original 500Mhz Titanium powerbook. (I know…. a real screamer - but the good news is, your mac is probably better than mine, and therefore it should do all of this…. just faster!)
Why spend more during times of economic hardships. You may very well spend them on refurb Apple products that come at a cheaper price compared to the newer ones.
Some more info from username ‘Picolsigns’ who posted the video above: “History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.
Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this movie on my website
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history
or on the PICOL-Project site where you can download a pre-release of the icons.
http://blog.picol.org/
Credits for subtitles:
(The correctness of the subtiles depends on the people listed down here)
English: Stefan Badragan | youtube.com/StevXtreme
Italian: Stefan Badragan
German: me
French: Arnaud ‘dehy’ DE MOUHY
Bulgarian: Andrian Georgiev
Chinese: Terry Lee
Portuguese (Brazilian): Guilherme Euler
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