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Easily delete files that won’t get trashed in OS X

Isn’t it annoying when sometimes files won’t just get flushed along with everything else when you’re emptying the trash in OS X? It says that they are in use, even if you’re sure nothing is using it? One solution is to log out and then try again, but a quicker one is:

Launch Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
Type rm -r ~/.Trash/<filename>

TIP: use the tab key when you need to type the file name, as it will auto-complete the command for you. You can even start typing the first characters of the name and then press tab.

NB: Be careful with that command. If carelessly used can be harmful to the system.

Posted 1 year ago

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If your SuperDrive is not working anymore in Lion...

I was already preparing myself to go the closest Apple Center for repairing. Here are the step to fix the issue yourself:

Open System Preferences > CDs and DVDs
Change all the options and revert them back.
Now your drive should work fine.

Nice Lion Touch: Swipe for Dock Exposé

finermac:

Steve Lyb discovered a handy multi-touch gesture for quickly triggering OS X’s Exposé feature to focus on the open windows of a specific app, instead of all open windows.

Simply swipe down on the docked apps.

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Here’s to the crazy ones.
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Here’s to the crazy ones.

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Sumatra PDF

I was sick of Adobe Reader so I searched for a better alternative on alternativeto.net
This one is definitely worth it: blazing fast, super simple.

EDIT: Nevertheless, I had to do this using #C0C0C0 as -bgcolor.

March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux

“Linux and the Internet have together changed human civilization more than any other pair of inventions.”

Eben Moglen

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Focusing is about saying no.

Also, check out this epic follow-up to the question: youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

Reblogged 1 year ago from seldo

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Steve Jobs’ Patents

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Icon Ambulance (by Vic Gundotra)

One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was attending religious services when my cell phone vibrated. As discreetly as possible, I checked the phone and noticed that my phone said “Caller ID unknown”. I choose to ignore.

After services, as I was walking to my car with my family, I checked my cell phone messages. The message left was from Steve Jobs. “Vic, can you call me at home? I have something urgent to discuss” it said.