I recently switched from working in plain text files to working in rich text in TextEdit and one of the most annoying things about rich text is pasting from other types of windows. I like to use a fixed width font most of the time, such as Courier New. Unless I’m diligent and use Command+Option+Shift+V, I end up with a mix of fonts and font styles. I finally got fed up enough with it today to do something about it. This work-around will only work with pasting from the keyboard. It will not correctly paste text that has been dragged and dropped.
The solution is to use Keyboard Shortcuts to switch the Edit menu’s items for Paste and Paste and Match Style. It’s such a simple fix, I never thought to do it before now. After this fix, Command+V will paste and match style and Command+Option+Shift+V will paste (and keep the style the copied text was in).
Open System Preferences
Click Keyboard
Click the Shortcuts tab
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Printopia is a great tool for exposing non-Air Print printers on a local network so that you can print to them from any iOS device. But even better is that it can expose PDF Workflow to do your bidding. In my case, I wanted to do n-up printing (n pages per sheet).
To do this, open up Automator and create a Print Plugin. For the workflow, you only need to add a single Run Shell Script action with the following line:
lp -d -o number-up=2 -o media=Letter “$*”
The details of the command will vary depending on your needs. In my case, I wanted 2-up printing to go do my default printer, so I could exclude the -d option.
To see a list of available print queues, type lpstat -a in terminal.
Once you save your Print Plugin, go to the Printopia in System Preferences and add your new plugin as an available destination for printing.
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Organizing your e-mail can be difficult. There are Smart Mailboxes, of course, but what if you would like more arbitrary control?
Apple’s Mail app includes seven flags of indifferent colors (a bit like the old Finder labels, ahem). But what if you can’t remember what each color represents? Once you have flagged a message with a given flag, you will see a mailbox for it appear under Flagged. Click on the triangle next to Flagged to see the mailbox associated with each Flag.
Each of the mailboxes may then be renamed by right-clicking on it. The new name for the flag will now appear everywhere that the flag’s name appears.
[crarko adds: I assume this is Mavericks only, but I could be forgetful.]
I recently imported an .ics file into the Reminders app, but it turned out all the events were already in there, and the Calendar app balked at them, one at a time, repeatedly. I was continuously presented with an alert window which said that the event already exists and I could either cancel, go offline, or revert to server (the default). After hitting return a few dozen times, I decided I would write a quick AppleScript, and do something else while it worked. I’m sure a number of Hints followers might balk at this strategy, but it worked for and I didn’t care how crude it was.
I just wanted to select the default button (revert to server) in every alert window, so all I needed was a script that would hit the return key every second. I wrote this in script editor, brought one of the alert windows to the front, then Command+clicked the “Run” button in the Script Editor (so it wouldn’t bring the script window to the front):
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Computers like the Intel “Mac Mini 2,1” were left behind with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) and Boot Camp 4. These restraints keep older machines from the benefits of current mac features, applications, and supported installs of Windows 8. However, these machines are well within the Microsoft system requirements for Windows 8.1 and installs are possible.
The older Core Duo Mac series cannot boot into 64-bit operating systems, and is excluded from modern versions of OS X, but Microsoft still supports 32-bit processors, giving many old Macs the opportunity to be re-purposed with a modern OS. I can confirm that if you use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 32-bit (no key needed) on a Core Duo Mac Mini, you can upgrade to Windows 8 32-bit from within Windows 7, and then do the same for Windows 8.1 (provided you have a license key for the final OS). Boot Camp 4 drivers work well for the 32-bit Windows 8.1, but I installed each one individually instead of using the BootCamp package ins …
