Taking screenshots on a Mac
For the past few weeks, I’ve had to take a lot of screenshots on my Mac. The MacOS comes with a default application called “Grab” that allows you to take screenshots. What’s annoying is that screenshot’s taken by Grab are automatically stored in .tiff format and there’s no way to store those images as .jpg or .png – formats that are more suited for web. Some search on the net and I found some cool ways to take screen shots – which I’m documenting here just in case I forget them. The most commonly use key combination for me is Command + Crtl + Shift + 4. This combination turns the mouse pointed into a cross which shows screen pixel count as we move it around. With a mouse drag, I can select the area that I...
Apple does it. Again.
Apple launched it’s new iPhone yesterday, named the iPhone 4. With several new features including an all new design, high quality display, dual 5 MP camera’s, the new iOS etc, the iPhone is way ahead than anything that’s available today. Watch this launch video that Steve Jobs showed at WWDC : The highlight of the phone is the quality of the display, named Retina Display by Apple. On a 3.5 inch screen, the display gives a 960 x 640 resolution, that’s 4 times more pixel’s per inch than the older iPhone 3G display. If you want to see the true advantages of the 326 pixel’s per inch display, visit this link. Apple is also highlighting a feature called FaceTime wherein you can see people you are speaking to but it only works on a...
Mac : Aperture 3 speed increase
Since the upgrade from Aperture 2 to 3, I was struggling with a slow and often hanging system. The moment Aperture was turned on, it was as if the entire system would go into a momentarily lapse and then sort of freeze. I tried many things. The first was – as recommended by most website – to turn off the faces feature by removing the check from Aperture -> Preferences -> General – Enable Faces . While that stopped it from searching through my entire photo collection for faces, it still didn’t resolve the issue of overall system slowness. More searches lead me to various other discussions and after trying several things, this is what has finally made Aperture work happily on my Macbook Pro : I deleted all the files in : Hard...
Latest Nokia N8 and Apple iPhone’s lost !
It’s strange that days after Apple claimed that it’s latest iPhone prototype was lost / stolen, Nokia has claimed the same for its new Nokia N8. It’s also strange that Apple’s lost iPhone found it’s way to a blog site www.gizmodo.com and Nokia’s N8 found it’s way to another site www.mobile-review.com. What are the chances of 2 such prototypes being lost almost around the same time, then being found by almost similar review sites ? Gizmodo stripped the iPhone open and did a through review of the new iPhone, you can read it here. This lead to an immediate jump is Apple share prices ! However, apple wasn’t too happy, they fired the employee who lost it, chased the gizmodo editor to return the phone and the cops...
Mac : How to hide finder menu bar
On Mac’s snow leopard (or most other OS X versions), the finder menu bar on top of the screen is fixed and can’t be hidden. This is not a flaw or shortcoming, its been designed that ways because the finder menu bar turns into an open application’s menu bar so in most cases it is required. However, there are some applications like Firefox or Apple Mail where I really don’t need the menu bar. Removing the menu bar in such applications actual gives me valuable screen real estate that I like to use. I’ve found a cool way to customise applications on the mac so that finder menu bar remains hidden while those applications are being used. It works perfectly, the bar appears when the mouse pointer is moved to the top edge of the screen and...
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