Tag Results For: Finder

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5 Tricks For Tweaking Finder In Mac OS X Lion

Mac OS X Lion does quite a few things differently from Snow Leopard, and for the most part, users have either reconciled with it or found an app, script or tweak that helped restore it to how it looked or worked before the new version. Whether you are yet to upgrade to Lion, have recently [...] (more…)

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XtraFinder Adds Several Useful File & Folder Options To Mac Finder

If you’ve transitioned to Mac from a Windows PC, you will probably have figured out that Finder is to Mac what Windows Explorer is to Windows. You will also find that there are some options from the right-click context menu of a file that were there on your Windows PC, but are missing in Finder. [...] (more…)

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Stop Folders From Appearing In “All Files” & Spotlight In Mac [Tip]

We recently covered an app, Easy File Hider, worth $1.99, which allows you to change the visibility attribute of a file to Hidden. In the spirit of hiding things from the world and anyone who uses your Mac, here is a little tip to keep files from appearing in Spotlight search and in ‘All Files’ in [...] (more…)

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Label Files In Mac’s Finder via Context Menu, Toolbar Or Drag & Drop [Tip]

Many of you would be aware that you can label files in Mac Finder. Color labels can be applied to any file or folder, and when files are arranged by Labels, they are grouped together as per the colors assigned to them. One of the easiest and most commonly known ways of assigning a label [...] (more…)

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Find Available Properties On Apartments.com via Official Android App

First it was Trulia For Rent, then Airbnb, MyApartmentMap, and so many others in between; Android users (especially those based in the US) have certainly hit a purple patch with so many various apartment finders available to them in a small matter of just a few months. Adding to the long list of invaluable apartment-specific [...] (more…)

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iTweaX: Tweak Hidden Mac OS X Features & Run Maintenance Procedures

Onyx and Deeper are two well known tweakers for OS X. Their main advantage: even a novice can tweak their OS without worrying about going critical mass on a brand new Mac book. For those who think that people messing around with the default settings on a Mac must secretly work for NASA, these apps [...] (more…)

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FinderPop: Access Desktop, Apps & Custom Folders From Anywhere In Mac

FinderPop is an application which extends contextual menus using its own custom folder items. The latest version 2.4 supports both Mac Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, featuring numerous new options to access Desktop, mounted disk images, processes, and user-selected items residing in its FinderPop Items folder. For those who are not familiar [...] (more…)

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Magician File Is Windows 7 Style Explorer For Mac; Finder Alternative

Mac Finder, unlike Windows Explorer, doesn’t offer address bar and file management buttons in toolbar, such as, copy, paste, move, move to Trash (delete), with other important options which would’ve made using Finder and sifting through open windows a lot easier. Advance search option is another reason why so many proficient Mac users rely more [...] (more…)

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cdto Opens Current Finder Location In Mac Terminal

A while back we reviewed a tiny application for Mac, called, Click2Shell, which lets you open current Finder window in Mac Terminal. It supports numerous other shells, including, Tenex C Shell, TCL shell, etc while you can use it with widely used Mac terminal emulators, including, iTerm and xTerm. cdto provides the similar functionality but [...] (more…)