200+ Keyboard Shortcuts
Usingmac.com – Mac OS X Leopard: 200+ Productivity Booster Keyboard Shortcuts
A *massive* list of keyboard shortcuts.
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Below are posts from November 2007
Does your Macbook skip the first letter when typing?
I thought I might be going crazy, but it appears this is a known issue that has been going on for quite some time, as seen in this thread on the Apple Discussion boards.
Essentially what happens is that if you begin to type in a new text field (and it can be anything from a password prompt to a web form to a search field in Spotlight), the first character you type is ignored.
If you have had this happen to you also, let us know, and do as is suggested in the thread above: visit Apples feedback form …
Create a ‘Recent Stuff’ Stack in your Dock
More and more handy little tidbits are being discovered about Stacks in Leopard. One of the particularly good ones involves adding a dynamic Stack that lists your recently used Applications, Documents, Servers or even Favorites.
To add this feature to your Dock, use the following command in Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal):
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }
Then type KillAll Dock
The Dock will restart, and on the far right you will …
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iPhone convergence continues – iLevel
Ok, NOW we’re getting somewhere!
Sure, the iPhone has a phone, iPod, camera, email, calendar, internet access, youtube, and a myriad of other things. But let’s be honest…sometimes you get tired of carrying around a damned level.
Well, thankfully, an enterprising young genius (the same guys that did the excellent iPhone ‘SysInfo‘) has come to your rescue. Enter iLevel.
FireFox beta 3 now available
A beta build of FireFox version 3 is now available for Mac (and other platforms) users.
Check it out here.
So far, so good. It seems stable and even a little faster. Of note are the new theme and new Preferences…and it appears to be Acid 2.0 compliant now (hooray!).
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One Laptop per Child – ‘Give one, get one’ project
Nov 18, 2007 | Discuss 
While not exactly a Mac topic, I wanted to pass along a link that is pretty important for those of us who love us some technology. http://laptopgiving.org/ 
Until November 26th, the Laptop.org Foundation is offering the XO laptop to members of the general public (in the US and Canada). When you purchase one of the laptops, another will be donated to a child living in the third world who is part of the growing cause to provide technology to those who desire to learn it.
The cost is $399, which is pretty good for two …
How to charge your iPod using…an onion.
The line between genius and insanity is a thin one, my friends.
How To Charge An IPod Using Electrolytes And An Onion – video powered by Metacafe- Original Story (yes, this is probably fake).
Paragon releases NTFS for OSX
Nov 15, 2007 | Discuss
Paragon Software has released NTFS for OSX, which allows Mac users to seamlessly write data to NTFS formatted drives, which can be of great use to BootCamp users with partitions in that format.
Primary advantage for most users: the ability to write files larger than 4gb to a Windows partition.
* Natively read and write your data to any Windows NTFS partition.
* Easily transfer data between Windows and Mac computers using external or thumb drives with NTFS partitions.
* Access NTFS partitions without having any complex translation applications or file …
Use a network mounted drive with Time Machine
Disappointed when Leopard arrived and you couldn’t back up to a shared network drive using Time Machine? Well put away that razor blade, Sally. We’ve got a trick for you.
Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) and enter the following (on one line, as one command), then hit Enter:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Open Time Machine preferences and enjoy the benefits of network storage.
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