Daily Archives: August 1, 2012

Frank DeLoupe Puts a System-Wide and Photoshop-Friendly Color Picker on Your Mac [Video] (Lifehacker)

Posted by Adam Dachis at Lifehacker

OS X: Frank DeLoupe (or Frank, for short) is a handy little app that lives in your Mac’s menubar and can grab any color from any pixel on your screen upon request. Just call it up via its global, user-specified hot key, select the color you want, and it’ll provide you with CSS-ready RGBA or HEX values, or a variety of other useful color codes, so you can quickly put that color to good use. More »


Keep your Mac from sleeping in Mountain Lion (MacOSXHints.com)

Posted by (author unknown) at MacOSXHints.com
Since Mountain Lion was released, I find that my Macs go to sleep when I don’t want them to. I had my Energy Saver preferences set to 15 minutes, but I’ve noticed that when something is active, such as a download, they got to sleep after 15 minutes, rather than continue with the download. This is not only incorrect behavior, but it’s very annoying. What’s worse, when I changed the setting to Never, they would still go to sleep during long downloads.

The Ask Different blog pointed out that there is a new command in Mountain Lion called caffeinate. This keeps the system awake, or, as the man page says, “prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility.”

Run it as follows in Terminal:

caffeinate -u -t 3600

3600 in the above command is the number of seconds to keep the system awake. What’s interesting is that you can effect …

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Eve Trains You to Use Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Downloads] (Lifehacker)

Posted by Alan Henry at Lifehacker

OS X: Keyboard shortcuts are great: they can save you tons of time and effort—assuming you know them all. If you don’t know every keyboard shortcut under the sun, Eve is an OS X utility that teaches them to you. Every time you perform a function or command with the mouse for which there’s a corresponding keyboard shortcut, Eve will display the shortcut on screen so you’ll learn it and remember to use it next time. More »


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