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Regarding Single Application Mode

November 3rd, 2009
Tags: dragthing | Posted in Application, Mac | No Comments »

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.

DragThing Single Application Mode

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

October 30th, 2009
Posted in Application, Mac | 2 Comments »

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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Beautiful

October 20th, 2009
Tags: mouse | Posted in Hardware, Mac | No Comments »

Apple Magic Mouse

The Magic Mouse is the new mighty mouse.

Multi-Touch Surface
Bluetooth Wireless
No more 360° sticky ball

Just released by Apple today.

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Universal Binary Version of Dot

October 13th, 2009
Tags: taverna | Posted in Mac | No Comments »

I use Taverna workbench a lot in a project I’m doing right now. After upgraded to Snow Leopard which does not provide Rosette by default anymore, I found that “dot”, the program shipped with Taverna 2.1 Beta 2 used for drawing workflows, was not Universial Binary yet.

No need to say I want to use Taverna, but I don’t want to use install Rosette. Since dot is part of Graphviz, we need to install a Universal Binary version of graphviz.

The first way is build it by yourself. It can be hard, but if you use macports that would be easy. This will be great and convenient if you build every unix program with macports, otherwise you’ll get a lot more than what you need. For me, 400+ Mb of libraries and programs installed by macports.

The other way is using Graphviz compiled by Glen Low or by Ryan Schmidt. These two packages will install Graphviz and necessary libraries to the system. Glens’ has a higher version (2.20.3), but either of above should works fine for you.

After installed Graphviz, we can assign a dot location in Taverna’s preferences.

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