Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

Fixed: Finder Preview Column Icon Always Closed by Default

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

I don't know if anyone else run into this but for me the problem is that the large icon view in Finder's Preview Column would always be closed by default. Whenever I select a file in Finder, the Preview Column ...

Email News Item from NetNewsWire with Mail.app [Updated Jan/17/2008]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

One the the feature that's missing from NetNewsWire (as of v3.1b38) is the ability to email someone an article. The following Applescript does just that: tell application "NetNewsWire" set articleTitle to (title of selectedHeadline) as string ...

A Fix for the Annoying iTunes Window when Auto-Syncing iPhone/iPod

Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

The problem for me was that if I don't have auto-sync turned on, I would always forget to sync my iPhone; But if I do have auto-sync turned on, every time I dock my iPhone(which could be after answering a ...

View PDF, Full Resolution Photo, and More on the iPhone

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

One of the feature I really like to have on my iPhone is the ability to ready any PDF documents without network connection(Edge/Wifi whatsoever), as well as view full resolution photos. Since the built-in Safari on the iPhone is already ...

Applescript to Sync iPhone/iPod

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

Unless I am mistaken but I don't think iTunes would automatic perform "Sync" operation while the iPhone/iPod is docked. It would perform a sync operation the moment a iPhone/iPod is docked, but if one changes a entry in the address ...

Applescript to Restart Finder and Dock

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

Just a little script to restart the Finder and Dock ... do shell script "killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app" tell application "Dock" to quit