Saturday, January 2, 2010

Mac Tricks

This post summarizes some useful tips on mac.

1. quick silver.
    start an application.
   option+space.

2. Command+S can save files in almost any application.

3. Command+Option+ESC will bring the force kill box.

4. When Apple Mail hangs with GMail Recovered Mail
     This can happen when you send large messages and something goes wrong.
     The solution is described here
     Delete the hidden directory,    
    ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-@domain.tld@imap.domain.tld/.OfflineCache
    and then delete the 'Recovered Messages' mail folder in Mail.app

5. To hide all windows except for the current window do Command+Alt+H

6. In terminal, open fname will open the fname in the default application. If you want to open with TextEdit do open -a fname.
   

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