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Tagged: osx.
Tagged: osx
Import/export Reminders to and from Mountain Lion and Google Calendar
The best addition they could have made in Mac OS X Mountain Lion is the Reminders app, which the public seems to have loved — even me, using it daily.
When Mail.app is slow
Macedonas.gr on compacting Lion/Mountain Lion Mail databases with a script, after backing up ~/Library/Mail.
Hidden shortcut at startup lets your Mac become an iPad
Apple is known for this kind of move: hiding capabilities on its computers. Capabilities that are usually enabled with some hidden shortcut.
Right Zoom for a proper maximize
Right Zoom makes the green traffic-light button fill the screen on Mac windows.
iPhone as a motion-sensitive game controller
TiltPad turned an iPhone into a Wi-Fi tilt controller for Mac games; it needed OS X 10.6.6 or newer and a Mac App Store download.
iOS/Lion-style scroll on your Mac
Scroll Reverser flips Mac scrolling to match iOS and Lion. Needs 10.5+.
Images in base64 encoding
CSS Image Encoder is a handy little tool that encodes images on your pages as a base64 string so they appear extra fast.
Export MP3 from YouTube videos
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter for Mac OS X 10.5+, with AAC and original-audio options.
Instapaper app (standalone) is what we need
Lately a lot of people use a service that starts “free” and offers an easy way to keep articles, pages, and anything interesting aside to look at later.
Mass-edit Address Book with Automator
One of the few drawbacks of Address Book on Mac OS X is that you cannot change contacts in bulk. A few lines in Automator can change that.
Load the Mac OS X desktop before the log-in screen
So you can walk away from the computer while it loads the desktop (without the insecure automatic login), this script loads OS X before letting you in.
MacBook Air 11.6 Invisible Film Keyboard Protection
After selling an iPad for an 11.6-inch MacBook Air, a thin eBay keyboard film went on in about 15 minutes, with spare keys in the pack.
Free Greek spell-check installer for Office 2011
A Mac installer for Greek proofing tools in Office 2011, via Suicico and Ma(c)geiremata.
A very good list of OS X shortcuts
Suicico points at Dan Rodney’s thorough Mac OS X shortcut list.
Keyboard shortcuts for special characters (€, ®, ©, ½…)
Use Show Keyboard Viewer, then Option or Command, to see special characters. Via Evripidis.
Renaming files with Automator’s help
Evripidis from Macedonas.gr builds an Automator Service that batch-renames Finder items to Mass Rename_001, Mass Rename_002, and so on.
The Macintosh celebrates its 27th birthday
On 24 January 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh; 27 years later, a short history from System 1.0 to the iMac era.
Free Remote Desktop on Snow Leopard
There are thousands of reasons to control your computer from afar over the internet. That process is called remote desktop, and there are several ways to do it.
Greek and English spellcheck together
Republication from Macalla.
Dropbox v1.0 is out. Be careful though!
Installing the Dropbox 1.0.0 release candidate trashed a working client; the lesson is not to touch what already works.
A new file format from WWF
WWF’s unprintable .wwf format, like PDF, Mac-only at first. saveaswwf.com
Back to the Mac event on 20/10
Yes, after years Apple decided to hold an event that is not about iDevices. The invitations went out and recipients faced the image you see.
VPN tutorial for Pandora
Historical 2010 note: friends used Hotspot Shield so Pandora and some US video sites would stream from Greece; screenshots show OS X VPN setup.
Every Get a Mac video in one place
The Mac vs PC ads total 1980 seconds; AdFreak and Milaraki collected them.
9 things you can do with VLC (and maybe did not know)
Besides being a very good video player for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, VLC has many other features new users may not know.
New Mac mini!
Apple quietly posted a thinner unibody Mac mini with HDMI, GeForce 320M, a faster CPU, and the power supply inside the case.
Options to read/write Mac disks from Boot Camp
Boot Camp still beat VMs for Windows on Mac, but HFS+/NTFS needed MacDrive, Paragon, SL-NTFS, Tuxera, or NTFS-3G for two-way files.
Safari 5 Extensions
Safari 5’s extensions were a reason to leave Chrome; Reload Button and Invisible Status Bar went in first, managed from Preferences.
[Mac] First Aid
A Mac first-aid list from macephemera.gr: reboot, disk space, permissions, fsck, caches, updates, haxies, new user, Safe Boot, diagnostics, reinstall.
Outlook Importer from iSquare
iSquare’s OutlookImporter turned Windows Outlook .pst files into Mail, iCal, and Address Book data, with Greek manuals also appearing on their downloads.
Apple HTML5 Showcase
Apple posted a special section on its site showing the HTML5 standard and what it can do.
Greek Mac OS X 10.6.3 is out (at last)
Greek Mac OS X 10.6.3 …just as we were falling asleep. Today the second wave of Greek Mac OS X appeared, with translations for version 10.6.3.
My New Apple Remote
Unboxing the aluminium Apple Remote MC377ZM/A for Mac, iPod, and iPhone, with photos — “it rocks” compared with other remotes.
uTorrent for Mac, now in beta
First OS X beta of uTorrent after the alpha builds. Worth a try even if you like Transmission.
Urgent: new job
SomniusX joins iSquare’s Greek localisation team; the site may redirect.
Greek on 10.6.2 (from Apple!!?)
There were quite a few rumors, and talks of a full OS translation, since I can now even edit compiled nibs.
Hide Tweetie Mac Dock icon
Hide the Tweetie Mac Dock icon and more. A large number of Mac owners have caught the Twitter bug.
Phone Disk Mount Your iPhone On Your Mac
Repost from Milaraki.com: Phone Disk from the iPhone Explorer makers mounted an iPhone or iPod touch like a USB stick, free until September then $10.
Greek translation of Tweetie 1.2.4
About 96% Greek localization of Tweetie 1.2.4 for Mac.
Greek localization of VisualHub 1.34a
About 99% Greek localization of VisualHub 1.34a for Mac.
Greek translation of Movist 0.6.7
About 99% Greek localization of Movist 0.6.7 for Mac.
GeekTool guide and Geeklets
The following article is a republication of the related post on Macedonas.gr with permission of the author and publisher.
Greek translation of CoRD 0.5.2
About 98% Greek localization of the CoRD RDP client for Mac.
Greek translation of coconutIdentityCard 2.4
About 99% Greek localization of coconutIdentityCard 2.4.
Greek translation of Chicken of the VNC 2.0b4
Full Greek localization of Chicken of the VNC 2.0b4 for Mac.
Greek translation of Gmail Notifr 0.5.0
Full Greek localization of Gmail Notifr 0.5.0 for Mac.
Something long-awaited is coming
Teaser: a localization that never shipped in the official app is coming to HellasProject.
The next FolderTeint will be Greek, with 10.6.3
FolderTeint’s next version, timed with Mac OS X 10.6.3, would ship fully in Greek.
Official Mac translations
The Official Mac Translations section is ready, including Snow Leopard Greek support.
How-to: clone your system
Pointer to a system-clone guide first posted on a Greek OS X forum.
Project: Gnoty – check your Gmail inbox
Xcode experiment announced: Gnoty, a Gmail inbox notifier. Details on the project page.
How-to: run Windows apps on a Mac
WineBottler wrappers for single-exe Windows programs; see the WinBox-on-Mac guide.
HellasProject.com news
Site additions: OS X submenu and files, plus RSS, email, and Twitter feeds.