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Disable two-finger swipe gestures in Chrome

August 8, 2013May 27, 2013 by Mr.W

You can use the the swipe gesture in Chrome to go back or forward on a page, just like in Safari for OS X. Use a two-finger swipe to the right to go to the previous page and a swipe to the left to go forward. You can disable the swipe function in Chrome with the following OS X Terminal command:

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 3 Comments

Disable the preview from attachments in mail

March 10, 2013 by Mr.W

When you open an email with an attachment there will be automatically displayed preview. Through the Preferences menu of the Mail application there is no option to turn this feature off. You can disable the preview with the following command:

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Categories Mail Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Use the system highlight color for ‘Today’ in Calendar

March 7, 2013January 9, 2013 by Mr.W

In OS X it’s possible to change the highlight color. You can do this in the General ▸ Appearance panel in System Preferences. The Calendar application doesn’t use the highlight color for ‘Today’. This uses the default color blue, you can enable the system highlight color for the today selection with the following command.

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Categories Calendar (iCal) Tags 10.7, 10.8 2 Comments

iTunes: Disable access to Podcasts

November 14, 2012 by Mr.W

Disable the Podcast functionality within iTunes. After applying this command the options will disappear in the navigation bar (Store section) and all other menu options within iTunes v7.1 and above.

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Categories iTunes Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Never display the Quicktime player X title bar

November 13, 2012 by Mr.W

It’s possible to hide the title bar within in a Quicktime player X window. The titlebar automatically shows up when the mouse pointer is active in the window. To disable this behavior, quit Quicktime X and apply the following command:

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Categories Quicktime Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

iTunes: Disable the use of plugins

November 12, 2012 by Mr.W

Disable the use of plugins within iTunes. After applying this command active plugins will be disabled and all other menu options referring to plugin related options will not show up.

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Categories iTunes Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Twitter: Close ‘New Tweet’ window with ESC-key

November 6, 2012 by Mr.W

it’s possible to enable some hidden features for the ‘Twitter For Mac’ application with some Terminal commands. With the following command you can enable to close the ‘New Tweet’ window with the ESC-key. Close Twitter and add the following command in Terminal.

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8
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