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Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

April 8th, 2008 · Comments

One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.
Instead, Safari makes you use CMD+Shift+L which is a "twister" of a keyboard shortcut — not very ergonomic. 
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Fantastic collection of contextual menu items for Mac

March 23rd, 2008 · Comments

Ever wanted to change the desktop picture in Mac OS X by selecting the file in the Finder, right clicking and selecting "set as Desktop Picture" from a context menu?Or perhaps select some files, then "move files to a new folder", "create folder enclosing these files" or "make new folder for files"? (It's about time [...]

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The campaign to convince Apple to fix its annoying Apple Mail URL breakage bug

April 6th, 2007 · Comments

Apple Mail has an excruciatingly annoying bug related to URLs pasted in emails: in every other mail client, they're broken and unclickable.

Apparently this is because Apple Mail uses a relatively new email standard, the "delsp" parameter, which supposedly instructs other mail clients to remove spaces inserted in URLs so they can recombine the parts [...]

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Tags: Apple