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Recently Used Files and Folders in Finder

danielgerber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:44:08 +0000

Have you every heard of the Mac OS X feature called Smart Folder? That’s the feature we are going to use for creating a folder which displays the recently used files and folders in the Finder sidebar. All you need to do is the following:

Make sure your are in the directory you want to create the Smart Folder for (the Smart Folder is applied to this and all subfolders)
Go to Finder and click on File -> New Smart Folder
Then click on the little plus (+) button on the top right
In the first drop down box go to Other and checkmark Used dates, Click OK
Select the something like: Used dates is within last X days (according to your favor)
Now hold down the Alt key ⌥ (the +-button should become a …-button) and click it
Now make sure that Any is selected in the new filter criteria (not All/None)
And create two new sub criteria one for Kind is Document and one for Kind is Folder
Click the Save button and name it as you wish, drag it at the desired place in the sidebar
Enjoy!

Of course you can adjust this as you wish to only show PDFs which are greater than 12MB and are labeled yellow, contain the word “stupid” and are located in the Document directory. I think you get the drift. Also, you can always rearrange the filter criteria by right-clicking on the folder and selecting Show Search Criteria. The same goes for renaming the folder.

Re-Download Mac OS X Lion

danielgerber — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:17:13 +0000

Since there is no simple download button on the Apple website and there are no install DVDs available, reinstalling Lion might seem tricky. But you can re-download it from the Mac App Store.

Open the Mac App Store
Press Option Key (alt/⌥) and keep it pressed for some seconds
While clicking on Purchased

You might also want to have a look at how to create a bootable USB drive here.

A very cute whale

danielgerber — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:58:03 +0000

Image from http://christianflores.tumblr.com/post/10131002203

Semantic Web Stencils for OmniGraffle

danielgerber — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:18:00 +0000

As a total fan of Omnigraffle I was happy to see that there are indeed semantic web related stencils available. One targeting the RDF and W3C Semantic Web logos and one for creating RDF graphs. So go ahead and download them and improve your presentations and papers.

Semantic Web Icons and Logos

Semantic Web RDF Graph Symbols

Recover lost files on your mac … for free

danielgerber — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:20:02 +0000

I have recently been to the Zoo and took a lot of pictures. As lazy as I am, I didn’t immediatly copied the files to my laptop after getting home. As a friend of mine wanted to rent the SD-card after some time, I decided to take a _quick_ look on the pictures but I couldn’t find any picture not yet imported to the library. And so it happened, i formatted my SD-Card containing all my cute little animals. I tried some demo-commercial software to recover the files with success, but recovered pictures with the company logo was not what I was looking for. I finally stumble upon PhotoRec a free and open source tool for virtually any operation system. You can get a copy here. It’s a very simple command line tool with a step-by-step tutorial. It recovered all my files within minutes. So please give it a try!

Change iCal and Address Book skin

danielgerber — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:25:12 +0000

Lion brings a new look to the Address Book and iCal. Since I’m not a real fan of the new skin, I was glad to hear that a little tool from 16-year old developer Fredrik W. called Lion Tweaks, is able to change it to the regular Apple Aluminum look. You can grab a copy here or download it directly from here. There are a lot more tweaks inside this tool, so see please check it out!

Using Eclipse in Fullscreen Mode under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

danielgerber — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:16:48 +0000

Since the recent OS update enabled fullscreen applications, all I wanted to do was using Eclipse in Fullscreen mode. But since the most recent eclipse release does not support this feature it seemed impossible. But now Alex Blewitt came to the rescue. In his recent blog post he describes what is necessary to make eclipse fullscreen compatible. So go ahead and read it here or open Eclipse > Install New Software > Add “http://github.bandlem.com/” and install the extension. Thanks Alex!

via http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/07/full-screen-support-for-eclipse-on-osx.html

via http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Eclipse-im-Fullscreen-Modus-von-Mac-OS-X-Lion-1284824.html

Analyze your music (listening habits) in iTunes

danielgerber — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:04:54 +0000

I stumble upon a great tool to analyze your iTunes library. It’s called SuperAnalyzer by the guys of nosleep.net. It’s written in Java and therefore platform independent (Mac OS X & Windows) and even open source under a GPL license, so you can add your own statistics there. Go get it! Here are some if its features:

show the growth rate of your library
how much songs are rated
# of songs per genre/year
listening times
quality
most played artists/genres/albums/songs
all sorts of play counts
most frequent song title names
export statistics to pdf or html
many more!!

FM Belfast – Don’t Want to Sleep

danielgerber — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:43:58 +0000

The new FM Belfast album is out, since today. So go and get it here: http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/dont-want-to-sleep/id424007744

Tabs for Mac OS X Mail

danielgerber — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:37:31 +0000

Check out the free beta at http://simplicity.fm/mailtabs