Glimmer

David Green

Things that I am thinking about or learning (either through reading or by school of hard knocks). These are my personal thoughts and not necessarily the positions or thoughts of any organization I am associated with.

Snow Leopard’s Preview Updates upon regaining focus

September 13, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Preview.app (the PDF and graphic viewer) will update itself to changes in the underlying file when it gains focus. That makes it more valuable for applicatio...

Snow Leopard Make Symbolic Links

September 13, 2009 less than 1 minute read

The old approach is no longer but valid but there is a new release which uses the service model. I always use symbolic links over aliases as it works at the ...

The four-finger swipe

September 12, 2009 less than 1 minute read

Last post for today. On suitably new portable Mac’s, one can do a 4-finger swipe which seems to be the equivalent of the Windows ALT+TAB (and the Mac CMD+TAB...

Snow Leopard - smooth install

September 12, 2009 3 minute read

I have now installed Snow Leopard on 3 machines (1 more to go plus a server).

Snow Leopard - Mail.app

September 12, 2009 1 minute read

I have been using Apple’s Mail.app as my client to talk to the University’s Exchange 2007 server. I really don’t like the monster database file that Microsof...