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Regarding Single Application Mode

Regarding TidBITS’s “Hidden Single-Application Mode”:

But it goes further. Lurking in the scary bowels of Mac OS X for all
these years has been this little command, which brings back
single-application mode. (Go ahead and try it – it’s easily reversed.)
defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool true For
single-application mode to take effect, you have to relaunch the Dock
with this second command. killall Dock

Previously I use multiXFinder for this kind of job, which is free and play nicely with Snow Leopard. Additionally, it can also active the “Single Application Mode” while using Command + tab to switch applications. No need to mention the love of whitelist for some particular applications. Days ago I re-invited DragThing to my system and remember that DragThing itself has the exactly same feature.

Finally I use AppleScript to toggle this behavior, and it is lunched by FastScript.

tell application "DragThing"
    if not (hide other applications when switching) then
        set hide other applications when switching to true
    else
        set hide other applications when switching to false
    end if
end tell

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BBEdit Is Still Fast

Actually BBEdit is still fast. More than 10 years ago (July 1997), On ATPM’s “Review :BBEdit 4.0.4″:

This review really wouldn’t be complete without mentioning BBEdit’s
incredible speed. While many of our readers might not consider speed to
be a noteworthy trait for a text editor, I could easily find programs
that deal with text in a drudgingly slow manner (Microsoft Word 6.0
comes to mind). BBEdit’s speed is apparent in every task it achieves,
from scrolling, to searching and replacing, to formatting HTML to
executing macros, BBEdit is the fastest text editor on the face of the
planet, and without question the fastest HTML editor in the universe.

Even today, open a 200mb plain text file in both BBEdit and TextMate, scroll up and down, you’ll see what I mean.

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Acorn 2.0

Acorn upgraded to 2.0 and got 64 bits support right now. Some hi-lights:

• You’ve now got a new preference to have every window on its own layer when making a screenshot.
• Render Clouds has long been a staple in the designer’s toolbox, a great starting place for textures.

Neat. And you can use it for free after 14 days trial. (Some features disabled, of course.)

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Snow Leopard: 切換多種輸入法/鍵盤

在切換輸入法（cmd + space）的時候長按 cmd 系統會提供給你目前可用的輸入法/鍵盤。

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Numbers Failed

Numbers failed to open a 3MB text file – too large? Have to use MS Excel in this case. :-/

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Open Selected Text as Url in Safari 4

I don’t know if it’s a new feature in Safari 4, but I never saw it before:

When a text looks like a URL is selected in Safari 4, new options will appear in context menu: Go to Address, Go To Address in New Window, Go To Address in New Tab.

Neat.

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Move the Documents Drawer to the Left in BBEdit

"defaults write com.barebones.bbedit MultiDocumentWindows:PreferredEdge Left"

(via siegel)

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