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OS X’s Services menu

The Apple Services menu is a timesaving feature that has been improved in Snow Leopard. Services were occasionally useful in OS X 10.5, now with 10.6 they are a great feature. Before Snow Leopard, Services weren’t contextual. To run a service called Task, you’d click on Name of active program in the menu bar > [...]

Snow Leopard first impressions

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since my SuperDrive is dead, I was going to install from a second Mac booted into FireWire drive sharing mode. The install disk refuses to run in this mode. I used OS X disk sharing, but had to first run a couple commands: defaults write [...]

Customizing Mac OS X PDF Services

One useful feature of OS X is the built in PDF handling. It is always easy to export a file as a PDF, and to do some basic editing of PDF files. A post on Mac OS X Hints today got me looking at some customizations. The hint is that creating an alias in the [...]