I use a few apps where I would like to synchronise preferences between 2 MacBooks. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to do this automatically, but a manual workaround is to export the plist to a folder that can sync over Dropbox/iCloud, etc., then import it on the 2nd Mac. As an example to […]
I don’t use panes in iTerm often enough and whenever I do I seem to have forgotten the keyboard commands to split and navigate them, so… ⌘D – Split vertically ⌘⇧D – Split horizontally ⌘⌥↑ (or ↓, ← or →) – Navigate between panes ⌘⇧↩ – Maximise pane toggle
I use Macs for most things but have one Windows PC. To match the Mac mouse scrolling directions on a Windows machine: Run Powershell as an administrator. Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 } Thanks to Richard
Lion introduces some new gestures which unfortunately breaks some gestures I am used to such as a three finger swipe to move back in Chrome. Easily fixed by opening System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures and changing swipe between full screen apps to use four fingers and swipe between pages to use three.
Every now and again I get an error when opening finder: ‘the application finder can’t be opened’ Whilst I am sure a restart would fix it, I normally don’t want to restart as I am in the middle of something. The solution is to run the following in terminal: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & (don’t forget the &) […]
I am currently developing on a Mac, running Visual Studio on a Windows 7 VM courtesy of Parallels. There are a number of issues to resolve the first of which is the key mappings. I am using the Mac bluetooth keyboard and a few keys are mapped incorrectly: Pressing this key Results in this output […]