Suppose you have a folder full of photos taken in rapid succession. These might be images from an MRI or ultrasound, or simply a sequence of shots snapped at a celebration of some sort. Either way, you’ve ended up with a series of photos that would likely look good animated—but they’re all simply stills.
There’s an easy way to put those photos in motion. Single-click on the first one in your folder, and then press the Spacebar to bring up the Quick Look preview of your image. Now, simply hold the down arrow. The Finder selection will cycle through all the photos in your folder, and the Quick Look preview will instantly update in real time.
If your folder contains photos that work as a flip book, you can see the animation right there in the Finder using this method.
In OS X 10.8.3 and later, Apple seems to have changed the behavior of the Mac App Store: It will no longer automatically check for System Updates if you are running from an account that does not have administrator privileges.
A simple work-around: Select the Updates tab in the Mac App Store. From the Store menu, select Reload Page (Command-R). The app will now prompt you for an administrator’s credentials. Then the app will search and (in my experience) find system updates if any are available. Updates can now also be installed from your non-admin account.
Now that Google Reader is dead, it’s time to find a replacement news-reading solution. If you, like me, land on Feedbin as your answer, you might not be happy with any of the current Mac apps that can connect to the service. And thus you might—again, like me—choose to set up a single-site browser for Feedbin using Fluid.
In general, Fluid and Feedbin get along fine. I tweaked settings to that I could open any URL within my Feedbin Fluid app, so that I could more easily open links to whatever sites I stumble across using the service. But I missed my “unread articles” badge, which NetNewsWire had long sported in my Dock.
Getting a similar badge back isn’t too tough. Launch your Feedbin-specific Fluid app. Then, go to Window -> Userscripts, and the top, default U …
