Sometimes Stackexchange sites will close a thread, because it's "not a question". Sometime's they won't. Nitpicking, but this is not a question. (Still great answers, though.)
List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks
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#22Anyone know how to filter a list of files in a Finder window by a string?
http://shortcatapp.com allows you to search the contents of any on screen window.
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#23If you have an external display hooked up to a MacBook, using the Macbook keyboard’s brightness keys will change the laptop display. The external keyboard will change the external display (if attached). Ctrl + brightness key inverts the behavior for both external and internal.
http://finerthings.in/mac/tips-for-changing-brightness-on-ma...
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#24Installing a OS free of patent-lawsuits and bad digital karma on your otherwise good hardware: http://blog.kylebarlow.com/2013/05/installing-ubuntu-1304-ra...
I don't believe in karma and don't think Ubuntu can ignore the game of patents. They've been able to so far because they are irrelevant in the desktop space. Personally, I'm not willing to hobble my computing experience due to some hopeless ideology.
> some hopeless ideology
The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing.
> irrelevant in the desktop space
Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league.
> hobble my computing experience
Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows. It's not necessarily the best for everyone, but the have taken a lot of good ideas from both Windows (eg. Maximise works properly, aero snap) and OS X (Expose), and added their own (HUD). If you consider Ubuntu to be hobbling your experience, then other people could consider using OSX as hobbling theirs.
Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks
#25Didn't see this one on the list - while Command+Tabbing, if you hold down Option while letting go of Command at the end, you'll open a new window in the specified application if it currently doesn't have any open. It might sound confusing, but it's quite useful if you've closed all the windows of a given app but still have it running.
The option key is involved in most of these hidden tips. If something doesn't work quite like you want it to, try doing it with option held down. 6 times out of 10 it probably will.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this relevant or connected to OS X hidden features?
Not all people know that a Mac is commodity PC-based hardware which you can install any operating system you like onto. In that regard it is a hidden feature, but maybe more so for the Mac than for OS X.
If this was 2007 or so, maybe.
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#27Sometimes Stackexchange sites will close a thread, because it's "not a question". Sometime's they won't. Nitpicking, but this is not a question. (Still great answers, though.)
At the end of the day though, if it provides some value to the world, does it matter?
I think there is a section of stack overflow moderators who shoot down questions purely due to ego.
Someone obviously trying to solicit an answer for their CS homework, close! Intoxicated monkey whacking the keyboard: close!.
This: keep it, please!
In fact I'm surprised it's still there.
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#28How about the PRISM and hardware tracking built into iPhones?
edit: let the down votes commence, I've got some karma to burn.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't believe in karma and don't think Ubuntu can ignore the game of patents. They've been able to so far because they are irrelevant in the desktop space. Personally, I'm not willing to hobble my computing experience due to some hopeless ideology.
> some hopeless ideology The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing. > irrelevant in the desktop space Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league. > hobble my computing experience Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows. It's not necessarily the…
>The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing.
Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. Nice try though, I guess.
>Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league.
Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades".
>Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows.
I've used Windows for years. I've used OS X for a few years now. I've used Unix for years and I've used Ubuntu off and on since it was started. Ubuntu had some advantages over windows for me but day-to-day OS X is simpler in every possible way. Except the "do tons of tweaking of every pixel on my desktop" way.
Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks
#30Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…
The applications folder is in the dock by default.