Blog: dashboard cheat sheets for your favorite mac apps. Dashkards Mac app poll results By Tom on October 29, 2012 Thanks to everyone who took the time to take the poll regarding turning the dashkards widget into a real Mac app! I’ve taken the poll down and have been sorting through the responses. Around 150 Dashkards users took the poll and the average price they were willing to pay (given possible choices of $0, $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, $3.99 or more) is $1.90. Given that most people (me included) don’t bother to take polls, I think that’s quite positive. The main reason for the poll was to see if there was enough interest in a dashkards Mac app to justify spending time and money on it. The results of the poll show that, while there definitely is interest in the app, I don’t think it’s enough to justify spending $3,000 to $5,000 on outsourcing the development, especially since there is a free option available with CheatSheet.
Again, thanks for participating in the poll and all ideas you submitted! Is the dashkards widget dead (or should it be)? Permanently Disable Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion. Dotfiles/.osx at master · mathiasbynens/dotfiles. Drafts - Agile Tortoise. Extend Drafts with ready-to-install Actions from the Action Directory! → News, Tips & Release Notes | Support and Documentation Drafts is a different kind of note taking app. In Drafts, text comes first – open the app and get a new, blank draft.
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Email and Message Actions Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote Actions. FunctionFlip - Software free. Reclaim your Mac's function keys I like the media keys on my MacBook keyboard - just not all of them. Fat-fingered that I am, I regularly skip tracks when I just want to pause or mute. Disabling all of the keys just won't do, because I use the brightness and volume keys every day. FunctionFlip individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa. FunctionFlip is a preference pane; you'll find it in the "Other" category in System Preferences. How To Use FunctionFlip FunctionFlip's purpose is simply to disable the special features — rewind, play, mute, etc. — on the function keys.
To assign a custom shortcuts to your reclaimed keys, use a program like Quicksilver or Keyboard Maestro. FunctionFlip supports all MacBooks and MacBook Pros and most Apple external keyboards, iBooks, and PowerBooks. Reviews Known Bugs Download FunctionFlip Having trouble with FunctionFlip on OS X Yosemite? FunctionFlip is free and open source. RCEnvironment - Pref pane environmen.plist file. RCEnvironment is a preference pane that allows a user to edit their ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file. This file is simply a property list of keys and values that the login system will read and load into the process environment of all applications that are launched when the user logs in.
These variables are the same as environment variables that can be created in a command line shell (eg: sh or csh), but they also can be seen by GUI applications. In this, these environment variables are somewhat similar to Windows' Environment User Variables. What's New Version 1.4: Built with a 64-bit Intel binary to work with the Snow Leopard® System Preferences. Intel/PPC Mac OS X 10.1 or later No similar apps have been recommended yet. RCEnvironment 20-Sep-2009 Pref pane for editing the environment.plist file. Suggest Other Similar Software suggested. Pref Setter Screenshots.
Screen Shot Document Window “Open Domain Quickly” Window Find Panel Get Info Window. Best Chameleon Helper. Champlist, Chameleon Wizard, and Chameleon Prefpane are helper apps designed to offer a graphical user interface (GUI) for the settings of Chameleon bootloader, the program that Hackintoshes use to boot Mac OS X. On some Hackintoshes, the default settings for Chameleon bootloader work perfectly, but most of the time, you have to fiddle with Chameleon's settings to get everything running. You can change the settings for Chameleon bootloader by manually editing preference files within your computer, but if you prefer point-and-click, then you may want to use a helper instead.
In this post, we compare the three most popular Chameleon helpers to see which one offers the most seamless Hackintoshing experience. NOTE: Chameleon helpers also work with Chimera bootloader, which is tonymacx86's version of Chameleon. Compared to its two competitors, Champlist and Chameleon Wizard, Chameleon Prefpane is probably the weakest app out of the three. Winner: Champlist! Switch back to the old Dashboard. Mac OS X Lion included a completely redesigned Dashboard application that, by default, acts as aб═separateб═space (or “desktop,” if you prefer) to the left of all of your other spaces (or desktops). Many OS X Lion users enjoyed this simple, but much needed refresh to Dashboard.
However, there are some upgraders to the new OS from Apple that absolutely hate the new Dashboard and would like it to go back to the way it looked and acted in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (by flying in above all of your open windows).б═ Luckily, Apple included a very simple way to change the Dashboard back to the way it was in Snow Leopard, even if you’re running OS X Lion. Here’s how to do just that: Step 1: Launch Systemб═Preferencesб═(Applications>System Preferences or Apple menu>System Preferences) Step 2: Find the preference pane that is titled “Mission Control” Step 3: Uncheck the check box next to the option that reads “Showб═Dashboardб═as a space” That’s it! Written by Brian. Get Old Exposé Back on mLion.
With OS X Lion, Exposé merged with Spaces and became Mission Control, as a result the behavior of one of many peoples favorite window management features changed; you could no longer see all windows from all apps in a single screen. Instead, app windows were grouped by application and stacked atop one another. That incredibly useful old Expose feature of seeing all windows is back in OS X Mountain Lion though, and you just have to enable it to see everything from a single screen again: Open System Preferences from the Apple menuClick on “Mission Control”Uncheck the box next to “Group windows by application”Do a three-fingered swipe up (or hit F9) to see the traditional Expose-style window manager With Mountain Lion, you can also continue to perform the app-specific Expose style window view by hovering over the apps Dock icon and performing a three-fingered downward swipe. 9 Tips - Mission Control. Change mLion's Notification Center BG.