I used to use tab to switch the button in dialog (such as OK, Cancel, etc.) after snow leopard I found this feature is missing. Today I did a search and found a way to enable it.
Here is How,
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Shrotcuts
At the very bottom there will be an option saying about full keyboard access. Check the radio button that says “All Controls”.

from:  http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/10/use-tab-to-switch-between-dialog-buttons.html

is cmd+? (press cmd+shift+[?/])
It opens help->search textbox. Then you type any command in the menu and press enter to execute.

Hooray!

Nobody knows why Canon restricts EOS utility app install only with original CD. Anybody who wanna install such an app owns a Canon camera. But some of them lost their CDs or bought a secondhand camera without CD.

To import Photos from your Canon DSLR, you need either a card reader or this app. Normally Canon only provides an updater of this app online. You have to keep the original CD to run this updater. I occasionally found this post to hack the updater.

First you download the latest updater app from Canon website. Then drag the app to desktop and show its contents. Navigate to Contents > Resources and remove the file “update.plist”. Now you can run this app as a normal installer.

That’s it.

Thanks to the author of this post.

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/install_canon_software.html

I found a compatibility issue of perian playing mkv on QuickTime X. A lot of posts suggested re-installing QT 7. I happened to find this article introducing a very simple way to make quicktime X play MKV.

Here is how.

Edit QuickTime Player.app’s /Contents/info.plist with a plain text editor like textmate or textwrangler. At the end of the file, before </dict></plist>, add the following code

<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
<array>
<string>public.movie</string>
</array>
<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
<string>Matroska Video File</string>
<key>UTTypeIconName</key>
<string>generic</string>
<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.quicktime.mkv</string>
<key>UTTypeReferenceURL</key>
<string>http://www.matroska.org/</string>
<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
<dict>
<key>public.filename-extension</key>
<array>
<string>mkv</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>

Open Terminal.app, run command

sudo touch  /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app

That’s all!
I have tested on my quicktime X on snow leopard.

Tags: QuickTime

此版本的matlab会直接在application目录下装一个app文件,相比原来的安装更符合mac os的设计.
整个安装过程非常简便和快速, 甚至比windows版的还快.
但激活matlab可能有个问题, 会发现activate matlab这个app会crash.
原因是这个激活的app是32bit的,但java默认按照64bit来跑.
解决方法是, 在打开/Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences, 修改默认的java程序运行环境为32bit,等激活后,再改回64bit.

此外, 之前看到了一个matlab加速的方法,是
自己加一个java.opts文件，放在/$Matlab$/bin/maci/目录下，
文件内容是
-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true
让matlab的java程序默认使用tiger的Quartz来render 界面.

但在r2009a里,这个文件自己就在那儿了, 不用自己添加了. matlab界面的速度也非常理想了.

refer

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-8GS5S1.html?product=ML&solution=1-8GS5S1

Tags: MacOS, matlab

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1. 选中要导出的照片
2. 菜单File->Export
3. 选择Put in subfolder： 随便找个地方起个名字
4. 在Post－processing里选择Open in Other Application: 选择iPhoto.
5. 点Export…

等所有的照片export到指定目录后，就会自动打开iphoto，并导入这些照片。

等iPhoto导入完毕后， 请手动的删除导出照片的那个的目录。

Refer:

http://travelgaia.com/wordpress/2009/02/export-lightroom2-photos-to-iphoto-09-how-to/

Tags: iPhoto, Lightroom

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Open a new Finder Window with current Folder

1. Open ScriptEditor.app
2. Paste the following script
3. Save as application (Name it with “duplicateFinder.app”)
4. drag the app onto the toolbar of Finder
5. click it whenever you want to duplicate current Finder window

tell application "Finder"
get the exists of the front Finder window
if the (exists of the front Finder window) is true then
try
set newWindow to target of front window
set oldView to current view of front window
make new Finder window to newWindow
set current view of front window to oldView
end try
else
try
make new Finder window to alias ":"
set the current view of the front Finder window to column view
end try
end if
end tell

From: http://www.fosk.it/how-to-open-a-new-finder-window-from-current-location.html

Tags: finder

为什么这么做?
有些程序在设置了语言设置(比如中文)后,就可以识别这个语言对应的non-unicode编码,比如itunes如果设置了中文后,很多mp3的中文tag信息可以正常显示了.
而其他的应用程序则继续使用系统默认的语言设置(比如英文)
如何修改?
在finder里找到applications目录,里面选中想要修改的app,cmd+I, 在弹出的窗口里找到language(语言)一栏, 勾掉除想要的语言之外的其他语言. 重启这个程序如果它正在运行的话.
另,如果有很多程序想修改, 不妨使用个简单的技巧:
先在system preference里调整语言的优先次序, 把想要的语言设置放在第二, 英文作为第一. 然后在cmd+I里的只需要把英文勾掉就行了.

–
如果你想修改所有的应用程序的设置,就直接在system preference里修改就行了.

整理自:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=75496

update:
最新的snow leopard 不支持在cmd+I里去除语言选择了, 那么,只有来硬的了, 右键点Tiunes.app, show package contents, 在里面找到要去除的语言直接删掉即可..

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One line command type as follows in terminal

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005070300463515

因为现在家有iMac,学校用的是Windows, 一个移动硬盘需要两个系统同时访问. 本来我的方法是用NTFS系统, 在mac上安装macfuse+ntfs-3g, 用的还不错, 可最近每在mac上进行写操作就移动硬盘就出问题了. 出问题的解决办法是, 找台windows在命令行里运行下面命令

chkdsk [Drive No] /x /f

等若干小时(视硬盘大小和逻辑损坏程度定)就好了.

但现在不敢用了. 网上search下, 发现, 另一个solution是, format成mac的hfs文件系统, 然后windows 下用macdrive访问.  有空准备尝试下.