As great and as easy as the OS X user interface is, sometimes it is quicker or necessary to jump into the deep dark bowels of your system on the command line. OS X ships with the very competent Terminal.app that allows easy access to this, but the default view into your machine is dull and boring. It doesn’t have to be. Here are a few tips to style things up a bit.
Photo Rotate 1.3 has now been approved by Apple and is available.
This update contains UI enhancements. Previously you had to rotate 90 degrees until you were happy. Now, after pressing the desired function you can now quickly select to:
- Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise
- Rotate 90 degrees Anticlockwise
- Rotate 180 degrees
- Mirror horizontally
- Mirror vertically
Due to competitive forces (capitalism at its finest) Photo Rotate is now only US$0.99 (AU$1.19) forever!
Want to know how to use Git under OS X? Hit up my latest article at The Apple Blog to find out.
The most annoying thing with running windows in a Parallels virtual machine, is that the default key mappings for navigating text is different between windows and OS X:
Windows:
- Go to end of line = End
- Go to start of line = Home
- Go to next word = control-right arrow
- Go to previous word = control-left arrow
OS X:
- Go to end of line = command-right arrow
- Go to start of line = comand-left arrow
- Go to next word = option(alt)-right arrow
- Go to previous word = option(alt)-left arrow
Parallels by default remaps the text copy, cut & paste from command-c to control-c, command-v to control-v etc. Why oh Why didn’t it do this for text navigation I bemoaned over and over, frustratingly trying to remember which OS I was using and switching to the right one.
Then, today, I had a moment of clarity. It was so obvious. I felt stupid for not looking for it before. Behold the screen shot below and now I am calm and relaxed with a unified text navigation scheme.
I didn’t think it was possible for any iPhone application to be as ugly as a windows mobile application. I was wrong.
Its so bad it makes my eyes bleed. How did this get past the Apple approvers? My mind boggles.
