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At my work, sometime i need to take screenshot of my desktop to make reports. I was using grab (mac pre installed software). But here my main problem is i have to press lot’s of keys(mouse). After googeling i found that there is another solution:

Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

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Quick Look is a nice feature added in 10.5, I use it often for glancing at the content of various documents and it certainly beats launching an application. If you’re an avid command line user though, you may be browsing through a directories contents and wondering just what is that JPG or DOC file. Wonder no more, because you can easily use Quick Look from the command line:

From the command line, use the following syntax:

qlmanage -p filename.jpg

This will launch a Quick Look window with whatever file is specified as ‘filename.jpg’, the file type can be anything that Quick Look is compatible with (which seems to be just about everything).

The qlmanage command has other abilities, here is the full flag list, courtesy of qlmanage -h:


Usage: qlmanage [OPTIONS] path…
-h Display this help
-r Force reloading Generators list
-p Show a preview of the documents
-t Show thumbnails of the documents
-s size Size for the thumbnail
-f factor Scale factor for the thumbnail
-c contentTypeUTI Force the content type used for the documents
-g generator Force the generator to use

As most of the ISP now following the MAC base network security, some time you may need to change your mac book/iMac’s ethernet cards MAC address. It’s now too simple on mac os x. just open a terminal and paste this command, and don’t forget to change this command with your correct mac address.

sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

That’s it. Now check the magic

As i am a web application developer, lot’s of time i have to work with css. And right now i am using CSSEdit , it’s simple amazing. It’s now giving 100% satisfaction, because here i can work even on live site with it’s own preview option. I can change the little thing and get the preview without any single page refresh. not only that, it also giving me the option to select/change the properties with mouse click. Tomorrow i will make some changes on this theme (right now we are using), of-course i will take help of CSSEdit.

I think it’s the best css editor on mac :). If you are not agree with me, you can also tell your favourite css editors name.

Only bad is , it’s not open source

The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. By holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimization to expose. If you want something truly useless but kind of fun, you can make the slow effect permanent by typing the following command in the Terminal:

Enable Slow Animations:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true
Disable Slow Animations (default):
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
For changes to take effect, you’ll need to reload the Finder either by logging in and out, or by killing the Finder. You can kill the Finder via the command line by typing:
killall Finder

On Sunday, Apple sold its one millionth iPhone 3G, the company announced today. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

WOW, i wish i will also get one very soon.

If you use your Mac on a cross platform network often, you’ve surely run into the obnoxious creation of .DS_Store files. If you’re curious what the file is used for, DS_Store is a hidden file for Mac OS X that stores various bits of data for the Finder to remember, like icon position, making it completely useless for anyone besides you to see. By default, your Mac will create the .DS_Store file’s all over the place including accessed computers that aren’t Macs, creating an annoying mess for network users to find. Thankfully you can easily turn off the creation of DS_Store files on network connections:

Stop .DS_Store file creation on network shares

Launch the Terminal and type the following exactly:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Restart your Mac and you will no longer have those pesky .DS_Store files appearing every time you browse a network share.

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