That’s a fun ride!

Access Folders from Finder Windows with a Custom Toolbar

This is a neat trick I accidentally discovered: you can drag folders into any Mac OS X Finder window toolbar and it will stick allowing for easy access.

Additionally, if you drag some of your core ~/ directories into the toolbar they’ll stay in place with custom icons like you can see in the screenshot above: music note for your ~/Music, a camera for ~/Pictures, and a movie reel for ~/Movies.

If you don’t want folders in the Finder window toolbar anymore, just drag them off while holding the Command key.

Add a Recent Items Menu to the Dock

From http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/15/add-recent-items-menu-mac-dock/

You can add a Recent Items menu to the Mac OS X Dock by using a defaults write command. The default is set to “Recent Applications” but once the Dock item exists you can adjust it to feature other recent items too.

Launch the terminal and enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ 'tile-data' = { 'list-type' = 1; }; 'tile-type' = 'recents-tile'; }'

That needs to all be on a single line, so if you copy and paste it make sure the command is one string.

You will then need to kill the Dock:

killall Dock

Now right-click on the newly appeared Recent Applications Dock item and you can change it to be Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Favorite Volumes, or Favorite Items.





If you want to remove the Recent Items menu, just drag it out of your Dock.

Kindle for Christmas

Yes, it's history now, but I am VERY impressed. First song loaded, appropriately for Christmas, was A Fairytale of New York.

Photos disappearing from HTC Desire HD Phone

Panic! It was there in Gallery yesterday, and now it's not!

Some searching revealed that photos are stored in sdcard/DCIM/100Media

Downloading an app from Market called SDRescan made it viewable on phone too.

Panic over.

Capturing streaming audio in OS X

From https://destefano.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/audio-in-osx/


How to grab and record “what you hear” audio on a Mac with open-source tools, using Audacity, Soundflower, and Sunflowerbed.

1. Download and install the Soundflower open-source audio routing system (which now includes Soundflowerbed application).
2. Download and install the Audacity open-source audio editing application.
3. Start the Sunflowerbed application: /Applications/Sunflowerbed.app
4. If not presented with a Sunflowerbed welcome or initial configuration screen, click the flower icon in the task bar, and beneath Soundflower (2 ch), click Built-in Output.
   

   Soundflowerbed output settings for Sunflower
5. In your system audio preferences ( -> System Preferences, Sound -> Output), select Soundflower (2ch).
   

   Sound preferences in OS X 10.6
6. Start Audacity, and in its Preferences, in the Audio I/O tab, under Recording, change the Device to Core Audio: Soundflower (2ch).
   

   Audacity Audio I/O settings
7. Now, anything you can listen to or stream to your system can be recorded, including Internet audio, DRM-protected content (which you’ve obviously bought but were unable to transfer to other formats), etc.
8. When you’ve finished recording, you may want to switch your Sound output setting back to Internal Speakers.

Mac: Resize .dmg image

1. Mount the image
2. Delete the files you don't need.
3. Dismount image.
4. From the terminal : hdiutil resize -size xx{m or g} /PATH/TO/DISKIMAGE.dmg
xx= the size you want the image to be.
Use either M for MG or G for GB

i.e. hdiutil resize -size 25g ~/Desktop/mystuff.dmg

From http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=65446