Mac Kindergarten

Everybody uses Finder, the file browsing application of Mac OS X, a lot. Let’s look at some handy shortcuts to speed navigation up a little.

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Previously we looked at all the information Mac OS X provides us in the Get Info window.

As you might have found out, if you have multiple items (files and/or folders) selected, Get Info will open up a separate information window for every item selected. Look at this post on selecting items in Mac OS X.

While it might be handy to have an information window for every item (for side-by-side comparison) it can be a pain in the neck if you want to find out congregated information such as total file size of all items.

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Previously, we looked at how to install custom QuickLook plugins, so we can preview more kinds of file types using this awesome feature of Mac OS X Leopard.

Today we will learn how to automate this process of copying a file into a certain location. So we only need to click the file, select the action and it’s installed.

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In recent posts we talked about QuickLook, which allows you to instantly preview a file, without having to open it in an application.

However, there are file types, that can’t be previewed with the standard installation of Leopard.

Let’s find out how to add more plugins, so we can preview more file types (eg. compressed .zip files, flash video or even folders).

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Previously, we looked at how to create a true, visual web history. Today, we will take things one step further, customizing the history to our needs.We added the Safari history folder to the Finder Sidebar, so we could access our web history in a visual way. While this is great and everything, it can quickly get a bit full in there.

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All these webpages we are visiting, all this information we see in just one day sometimes can be a bit overwhelming. Almost everybody has probably already thought something like “I saw this on a web page, but where…?”.

Then you try to use your browser’s history, trying to find out… quite impossible to say, which page it was, when the only thing you are presented is the title.

Today this is over. We will create a true, visual web history.

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