January 2012
12 posts
Hard-to-see scroll bars
Have you perchance been viewing the Python documentation in Safari on Lion, and been frustrated that the overlay scroll bars can barely be seen?
I promise the scroll bar is there; I can see it viewing this page on my iPhone 4.
This CSS, applied with Kridsada Thanabulpong’s User CSS extension, should remedy the situation.
body {
background-color: white !important;
}
There is no...
Safari history in Spotlight
For some reason, there isn’t an option to not show Safari history in Spotlight results. (Bookmarks can be turned off.) I worked around this by adding ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/ to the exclusion list in the Privacy tab of Spotlight preferences.
iBook author for mathematical expressions →
Apple Support Communities
I’m not the only one thinking about the lacking support for mathematical expressions in iBooks Author. It works with MathType (as does Pages ’09), but this isn’t enough.
iBooks could do more than just display expressions. I’d find it very useful to be able to get more information about symbols: what is it defined as and where else is it used?
Maybe mathematical...
Spotlight preferences
I was using my Mac, and wanted to access the Spotlight preferences without taking my hands off the keyboard. I thought it would be cool if I could summon Spotlight then press ⌘-comma but this does not work.
The arrows keys move up and down through results, and there is a “Spotlight Preferences…” option at the bottom of every results list. I found these ways to navigate quickly:
Use command...
Different Levels →
by Dov Frankel on For No One
The iPhone has two different volume levels: your ringer volume, and your audio playback volume. When audio is playing, or when an audio-centric app is open, the hardware volume buttons change the volume of the audio.
In Settings > Sounds, there is an option called “Change with Buttons”. The situation described above is when this option is on. When this option...
Bring
An “evil magic stone” in “Rave Master”? I think reading any more would spoil this.
5by6
Now I know why we’re still on iWork ’09 on the Mac →
Readomator for Instapaper →
Listen to your saved Instapaper articles as easily as you listen to podcasts. Readomator seamlessly bridges Instapaper and the iTunes podcast section using text-to-speech.
This is interesting stuff. It’s a Mac app, which takes text from Instapaper, runs it through the Mac OS X’s speech synthesis system, then puts the resulting audio into iTunes as a podcast.
Instapaper is great (we all...
Play the bitly team memory game →
Bitly have a fun game to help you learn their team.
Immobile Apps →
by Nick Bradbury
Many of my favorite mobile apps are immobile. I can’t take them with me.
All applications should aim to work as well as possible without a network connection. This is very important, but it’s often done wrong.
As well as preserving as much functionality as possible, don’t pester the user when there’s no internet connection. Mail and Maps on the iPhone are good...
