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Enable the full size window preview in Mission Control

October 13, 2012 by Mr.W

Mission Control groups previews of windows from the same app. By hovering the cursor over a these group and scrolling up, you can see that the group showing more detail in those behind the main window. With the following command you enable to see a full size preview of the contents.

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Categories Mission Control Tags 10.7, 10.8

Enable full name display in Twitter for Mac

October 12, 2012 by Mr.W

By default twitter shows only the twitter usernames in their application. With the following command it’s possible to enable to display the full name instead the twitter username.

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Disable the Spaces Animation in Mac OS X

October 10, 2012 by Mr.W

Anytime you navigate between Spaces in OS X there’s a animation, this is nice but it makes switching between Spaces slower. You can disable the animation with the following command:

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Categories Mac OS X General Tags 10.5, 10.6

Display the location path of current wallpaper in OS X

October 9, 2012 by Mr.W

When you have no idea where the original wallpaper image is stored from your background, you can use the following command to display the full path to the currently active desktop image. This would be display directly on the wallpaper itself.

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Categories Mac OS X General Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Enable the hidden ‘go to recent space’ gesture

October 9, 2012October 8, 2012 by Mr.W

When you use Mission Control often, you’ll like the following defaults-write. It lets you immediately jump back to the most recently used Space. You can activate this option with a four-fingered double tap on the trackpad (or Magic Mouse). Enable the gesture with the following command:

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Categories Mission Control Tags 10.7, 10.8

iTunes: Disable the Genius sidebar

October 6, 2012 by Mr.W

iTunes contained a genius sidebar that displayed related music in the iTunes store. You can disable this sidebar with the following command:

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Categories iTunes Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Disable Dashboard as a space in Mission Control

October 4, 2012 by Mr.W

By default Dashboard appears as the first Spaces in mission control. If you are not a Dashboard user, you can hide Dashboard from appearing as Spaces with the following command:

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Categories Dashboard Tags 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment
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