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In: IT| Tips and Tricks| Tutorials
28 Jul 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , Terminal Tips , TUAW Tips Are you tired of all of those icons from screenshots you’ve taken cluttering up space on your desktop? If you would like them in a different place when you snap them, here’s a command to change the location. Using the Terminal , enter the following command to change the location: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures This snippet will change the default location of saving the screenshot to the Pictures folder. You can also set this location to any folder or volume on your Mac, just substitute ~/Pictures in this command to whatever you want. Once you’ve run this command, you’ll need to restart the SystemUIServer (used to control certain interface elements in Mac OS X), by entering killall SystemUIServer in the Terminal.
Filed under: OS , Snow Leopard Michael Flux has posted some pictures of Snow Leopard build 10A380, and there are some interesting things worth pointing out. The stack frame now has a attractive border between it and the shadow which looks quite nice. Also, an option for folder actions now appears in the Finder’s contextual menu. There’s a cool feature in Safari that lets you create a note from any selected text
Filed under: Leopard , Snow Leopard John Gruber mentioned in a recent post about Apple’s Snow Leopard list of Enhancements and Refinements that one of the small adjustments to Snow Leopard will be that the default gamma on displays will switch from the typical 1.8 value to 2.2, which is what is used on TVs as well as being the long-standing default gamma value in Windows. Gamma affects the visual contrast you see on your screen, and a higher value indicates a higher level of contrast.
Filed under: Rumors , iPhone Well! Our tips line has certainly been a beehive of activity with WWDC just around the corner. We’ve gotten several purported iPhone 4G images, which range in quality from meh to ludicrous. Particularly interesting: the iPhone Blog’s 16×9 widescreen model.
In: Applications| How-To
22 Feb 2007Taking screen captures on a Mac is simple because OSX comes with a program built in that you can use for such purposes. It’s called Grab, and I’m going to explain to you what it’s useful for, where you can find it, and how to use it. There are a few button options built in [...]
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