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Access iPhoto images from any application
iPhoto stores the photo files in bundles. This makes it difficult and time-consuming to access your saved photos manually in Finder, and makes it impossible to open your iPhotos via an Open dialog. It's also impossible to use Time Machine for individual iPhoto pictures (unless you choose File » Browse Backups from iPhoto). You can very easily give all programs easy access to your iPhotos, using aliases.
In the Finder, go to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library. This is the one whose icon is a stack of photos, the one on top being the standard orange palm tree. Yours may be named something other than the default name iPhoto Library.
Right-click (Ctrl-click) on this file and choose Show Package Contents. You get a new window with a bunch of files and folders. You're just interested in two: Modified and Originals (as you can guess, Originals contains your original, unedited photos; and Modified contains your edited photos).
Open a Finder window ...
 
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Fix RSS bookmarks with no count in Safari
I was having a problem with the RSS feed for a bookmark in Safari. It was in a folder in my Bookmarks Bar. Whenever the feed was updated, the folder got a number, but the feed's bookmark in the pop down did not, making me wonder just which feed the update came from.
I fixed it by changing the RSS feed URL from:
feed://http://www.pimpmysafari.com/atom/ to
feed://www.pimpmysafari.com/atom/.
That is, I removed the http:// part from the URL. Now the number correctly appears next that feed just like all the other ones do.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one.]
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10.6: Automate the creation of ISO images
 I love Disk Utility, however, it does not directly support the creation of ISO 9660 images. It can create CDR images or CD/DVD master images. Those can be renamed to .iso files and are supported by most software. But that's inconvenient to say the least.
Some searching revealed that you can create ISO images using the Terminal through hdiutil.
The Terminal command is:
hdiutil makehybrid -o ~/Desktop/Diskimage.iso ${diskName} -iso -joliet
However that still leaves things complicated. So I put this in Automator by adding the 'Run Shellscript' action.
echo -n `date "+%Y-%m-%d - %H:%M:%S ->"` >> ~/iso.log
echo "Starting ISO creation" >> ~/iso ...
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Use Transmit to deal with MobileMe's iDisk
Accessing iDisk through Finder is, in the best case, slow and unreliable. I've found that Transmit (Panic Inc.) is a fast, reliable and easy substitute to Finder.
Everywhere you can find opinions against using iDisk to synchronize data or to hold working copies; however, MobileMe has 20Gb of available capacity I wanted to use. After searching a lot, I have found that Transmit has native support for MobileMe (amongst others), lots of features, it is very fast and easy to use.
These hints are focused on basic iDisk usage, i.e. get you up and running in short time:
- Synchronizing folders: Go to 'Favorites' and connect to your MobileMe iDisk. Don't forget to save it in a favorite with remote and local paths defined. Then it's just a matter of pressing the Sync button.
- Save as 'on-demand', preserving folder structure: Again, go to 'Favorites' and connect to your MobileMe iDisk. Define remote and local paths and act ...
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iTunes 9.2 adds Undo & Redo commands
Most applications have Undo and Redo commands, and iTunes has long had them available when editing song tags. Beginning with iTunes 9.2 (the latest version is 9.2.1), offers Undo and Redo commands which can be applied to songs which have been removed from or added to a playlist. Note, though, that these commands will not work for songs which have been removed from the Library.
As always, Undo is available from the Edit menu and can also be invoked using the keyboard with Command-Z. Redo is also in the Edit menu and can be done with the Command-Shift-Z keyboard shortcut.
I have no earlier version available for testing, but am confident 9.2 is when the feature I've noted was added. I regularly invoke the Undo keyboard shortcut just as a habitual response to a mistake, and I never witnessed the behavior prior to 9.2.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described.]
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