Here is a shortcut to the protocol selection sheet when adding a new email account in Mail in Mavericks.
When adding other email accounts in Mail (in 10.9 Mavericks, I don’t know about earlier versions) hold down the Option key to turn the Create button into a Next button instead. This saves you the trouble of entering a fake email address to get to the sheet where you can select the protocol type.
[crarko adds: This goes back at least as far as Snow Leopard (where the button changed to Continue), but new users may find it helpful information.]
I was attached to InDesign CS3 for a long time but had to install CS5 to test a content management system. The second thing that made me crazy (the first thing being the application frame) was the absence of a progress bar when exporting a PDF.
Okay, might be a feature for most people because you can continue the work on that or any other document while the PDF export is in progress.
But most of time I want to open the PDF in Acrobat or pass the PDF to another application after it’s created. Now you have a zero kB PDF file until InDesign is finished with the export.
The following hint works in CS5, CS5.5, and CS6 as well:
Create a new blank text file with the file name DisableAsyncExports.txt and place that file in the InDesign application package itself (right-click on the application icon and select Show package content). Then go to the sub-directory Contents/MacOS and place the new file there.
The new SMB2 stack deliverd with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) often fails to connect to NAS devices or behaves strangely on server volumes, such as an inability to change file/folder names.
Some possible workarounds are:
First try using cifs:// instead of smb:// to connect to the server volumes.
If that doesn’t help, then there is a way to change all connections that use SMB1 by entering this command in Terminal:
Many are complaining about the recent occurrence of blank, full page windows popping up under the active window in Safari versions 5 and 7 (not sure about version 6) when clicking on a link.
This is due to the Glims update that came out this week. To solve this annoying behavior:
I disabled automatic spring-loaded folders. But wanted to have ability to manually activate it.
As you know if you drag one folder to another you can wait a little or immediately press spacebar. In both cases folder “spring-loads”.
But auto spring-load annoys me more than helps. Because I often need to find folder I want to spring-load. And also I have to control that I am not hovering some other random folder. And sometimes I start dragging folder and in some depth forget to control not hovering any unnecessary folder.
“And boom!” and spring-loads wrong folder.
In Finder Settings (Finder menu -> Settings or CMD+,) you can disable auto opening spring-loaded folders.
But it will also disable manual opening folder via pressing spacebar.
But the hint is to double click spacebar when you hover necessary folder. “And boom!”
Like most preferences, keyboard shortcuts can be set using “defaults write” commands in the Terminal. Useful if you have lots of shortcuts that you want to define, or if you have more than one Mac to set up.
However, the syntax isn’t quite the same as the usual commands for setting a key to a value.
For Application-specific commands, use the following:
defaults write com.developer.app NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add “Menu Item” -string “@$~^k”
The meta-keys are set as @ for Command, $ for Shift, ~ for Alt and ^ for Ctrl. k in this example is the non-meta-key that you want to use.
For system-wide shortcuts, you can use -g instead of the app identifier, e.g.defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add “Menu Item” -string “@$~^k”
Note that you’ll need to relaunch the app before these will take effect. Also you can see if they’ve been successful in System Preferences — which will also need a relaunch to show the changes.
I believe this is new to Mavericks: Here’s an easy way to identify the windows in Safari that are currently using resources.
Open Activity Monitor, and then hover over a Safari Web Content item in the window. That will display the open URL(s) belonging to that instance. This makes it easy to identify the window in Safari that is using up your CPU.
Since Apple hid the user Library folder in Lion, there have been various methods of displaying, revealing or navigating to it. Apple have introduced a new one in 10.9.
There is an option to reveal the user Library in the Finder -> View Options. It only appears when the view options are selected for a window showing the user’s home folder.
Apple changed the behavior of the Power button in 10.9 Mavericks.
Press the button once, and it puts your display to sleep. Press and hold it for a second or two, and the Shutdown / Restart / Sleep dialog appears. Press and hold it for even longer, and your Mac gets completely powered off.
Right mouse click and choose Services > New Terminal at Folder
I’ve tried different apps to be able to open a Terminal shell from a specific folder. Finally in Mavericks you can add a Service to do that. In System Preferences choose Keyboard and then Shortcuts. From the left side nav, choose Services. Then from the main area under Files and Folders, choose New Terminal at Folder and/or New Terminal Tab at Folder. Now you can right mouse click or control click on a folder and choose Services > New Terminal at Folder.
