Multiple RSS feed in one view

Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts

Make sure your free space is really free heh

Creating smart folder

Always show up to date contents.

Where do the Library folder go?

Hold option key when viewing the Finder's Go menu.

Get album cover in iTunes

Accurate search with search tokens!

Narrow down and fine grain your search with search tokens.

Change images type with Automator

It's amazing how Automator can save your time!

Import option in Aperture :-)

Show file found by Spotlight without opening them

Command + click on the found file

Different Wallpapers on Multiple Desktops

Create more than one iPhoto Library

Use option key + click on the iPhoto and you can have more than one iPhoto Library separately.

View hierarchical location in Finder

Command + click on the Finder's window title.

Resize Safari view while in full-screen mode

Migrate Lion partition to overwrite Snow Leopard

maybe you have previously installed lion on different partition, make a lot of changes, app installation, and later you decided to stick with it. here is how to avoid re-installation over writing your old snow leopard:

1. install lion on external disk and boot it
2. do image scan with disk utility on your lion partition
3. use the image to restore and overwrite the snow leopard partition
4. change the name of the old lion partition

5. boot the new lion. when power up, hold option key
6. once in, use disk utility to remove the old lion partion and resize your new lion

I Love Shortcuts!

All Caps - CTRL+SHIFT+A
Annotation - ALT+CTRL+M
Auto Format - ALT+CTRL+K
Auto Text - F3 or ALT+CTRL+V
Bold - CTRL+B or CTRL+SHIFT+B
Bookmark - CTRL+SHIFT+F5
Copy - CTRL+C or CTRL+INSERT
Copy Format - CTRL+SHIFT+C
Copy Text - SHIFT+F2
Create Auto Text - ALT+F3
Date Field - ALT+SHIFT+D
Delete Back Word - CTRL+BACKSPACE
Delete Word - CTRL+DELETE
Dictionary - ALT+SHIFT+F7
Do Field Click - ALT+SHIFT+F9
Doc Maximize - CTRL+F10
Doc Move - CTRL+F7
Doc Restore - CTRL+F5
Doc Size - CTRL+F8
Grow Font - CTRL+SHIFT+.
Grow Font One Point - CTRL+]
Hanging Indent - CTRL+T
Header Footer Link - ALT+SHIFT+R
Help - F1
Hidden - CTRL+SHIFT+H
Hyperlink - CTRL+K
Indent - CTRL+M
Italic - CTRL+I or CTRL+SHIFT+I
Justify Para - CTRL+J
Left Para - CTRL+L
Line Up Extend - SHIFT+UP
List Num Field - ALT+CTRL+L
Outline - ALT+CTRL+O
Outline Collapse - ALT+SHIFT+- or ALT+SHIFT+NUM -
Outline Demote - ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT
Outline Expand - ALT+SHIFT+=
Outline Expand - ALT+SHIFT+NUM +
Outline Move Down - ALT+SHIFT+DOWN
Outline Move Up - ALT+SHIFT+UP
Outline Promote - ALT+SHIFT+LEFT
Outline Show First Line - ALT+SHIFT+L
Lock Fields - CTRL+3 or CTRL+F11
Web Go Back - ALT+LEFT
Web Go Forward - ALT+RIGHT
Word Left - CTRL+LEFT
Word Left Extend - CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT
Word Right - CTRL+RIGHT

Aperture: A tiny thing that saves a lot of time.

Just for expressing an excitement. A new thing I just discovered and love about Aperture.

I have a lot of pictures and my last trip to Langkawi produced more than 1700 shots - and my mother wants them ALL! So as I started to export hundreds of pictures, I went through one by one to reject bad photos - even the exporting is still running (right now). Suddenly I came to a photo that attracts me. After a simple edit, I decided to upload it to Flickr and this is the good part. I don't have to wait for the earlier exporting process to complete before exporting a new picture. It really saves my time.

What a good software design in customer point of view!

Leopard Re Installation: Part 2

I reformat using the same filesystem my external hard drive uses. Then set UID to 1000 in the System Preferences > Accounts > Advanced Options (right click on username). After that chown whole home directory.

Leopard Re Installation: Backup & Restore Issue

I wanted to replace my OS X Server because of lack of Internet Sharing feature. So I do both Time Machine backup and manual backup before making a fresh OS X installation. These are the issue that I faced.

Restoring using Time Machine right after Leopard Installation is not as I expected. There will be folders like 'System (from old mac)', 'Applications (from old mac)'. For me, this is not neat.

Your OSX filesystem must have the same format as your Time Machine backup filesystem. I'm using HFS Journaled with Case Sensitive, but my external hard disk is using HFS Journaled NOT with Case Sensitive. I have to reformat either my OS X partition, or my external hard disk.

Restoring files from Time Machine is strict because of UID. My user uses 501 as UID but my last Server system was using 1000 as UID. So restoring could get complicated.

Right now I'm going to change my UID and reboot and see what will happen.

Unresponsive Dock and Finder

I can't access Dock just now. No respond. And I'm unable to go through Finder too, so I can't get a touch on Terminal. I forced quit some applications, but there's only TextEdit which I left because there's work which wasn't saved yet. Then how do I rescue this without force quitting the TextEdit which I'm not even sure if it is the cause of all this? But I'm pretty sure that it was about the hung Dock. I really wanted to avoid logging out or reboot.

But user fast switch is enabled. I logged in as administrator and used terminal to kill other's Dock process.

PS=`ps aux | awk '{if($1="amanyus") print}' | grep -i dock`; kill $PS

PS is temporary shell variable to hold a value. This value is coming from a ps command after few filtering with awk and grep. Awk only print lines that match the first column with user amanyus, which result in all amanyus' processes. Next with grep, only match insensitive case dock rather that all processes under user amanyus because we only want to find Dock process and put in the PS variable. Up to this point, PS variable will hold the process number of amanyus' Dock. After the semicolon, the process will be killed.

Silly is you just can simply use ps aux | grep amanyus | grep Dock and kill the Dock's process without bothering with awk command =p

p/s: Hey, I forgot about spotlight at the first time to search Terminal, but not sure if it would work.