Jay Robinson

Tag: tips

  • How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connected

    How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connectedThis was driving me crazy. I had the “Prevent devices from syncing automatically” checked in the preferences, yet every single time I docked or _un_docked my iPhone, iTunes would jump to the front of my screen. The answer is rather unintuitive: Go to iTunes…

  • Photoshop Tip: Disable Hyphenation in New Documents

    Webpage Photoshop comps look silly with paragraphs auto-hyphenated. This is almost never what a web designer wants. In order to turn off hyphenation for all new documents, proceed with the following steps: Open Photoshop. Close all open documents. Select the Paragraph panel. Uncheck “Hyphenate” checkbox. Result: All new documents have “Hyphenate” unchecked, solving all your…

  • Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhoto

    Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhotoThis handy tip will help you cull your iPhoto library of those hundreds screenshots you take when you’re obsessively working on UI. Create smart albums with the following criteria: For iPad, match all of the following conditions: Aperture is Unknown ISO is Unknown Filename starts with IMG_ Filename contains…

  • Resizing windows in Mac OS X Lion

    Today I discovered that you can resize windows in Mac OS X Lion with the aid of the Option and Shift key, a technique usually reserved for image editing software. Hold down the Option key while resizing the edge of a window to move the opposite edge the same distance. Hold down the Shift key…

  • Launch MAMP without Password

    Launch MAMP without PasswordWas annoyed by MAMP inquiring for my password at every startup. Did a little Google work and found the solution: two Applescripts. Difficulty level: Novice. Time: 1 minute. Satisfaction: Achieved.

  • Twitter for Mac adds a new contextual menu item when you select text in Safari. If you’re a web dev like me, you often want the final item to be “Inspect Element”. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Files & Folders to disable the “Tweet” service. I also disabled…

  • You guys know you can paste URLs directly into the Safari Downloads window right?

    Okay, just checking. UPDATE: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari 5.1 no longer supports this behavior. Sorry, Charlie. UPDATE: Not sure if I just missed this before, but you can do this in 10.7+ as long as you first focus the Downloads “window”.

  • I love that *this* works.

    Peter Baker: “Shiiit” comes out exactly as it should. (On a Mac, Control+click the word > Speech > Start Speaking) Also, try “Mac OS X”. It’ll blow your mind.

  • Jacob Bijani: I had no idea this existed in Photoshop. It takes a list of files or folders and places each one on it’s own layer in a new document. I’ve been looking for something like this.

  • Quickie: Adding Facebook Chat to iChat

    Connor Denman: To use Facebook chat within the iChat application, it is very simple and straight forward. First, create a new “Jabber” account within iChat preferences. As the Login name (or Username) specify your Facebook username that can be seen in your Account Settings on facebook.com. It should look like this: [username]@chat.facebook.com Obviously then you…

  • Regarding The Pesky .DS_Store

    The .DS_Store can be an annoying and troublesome file for power Mac users, i.e. developers and programmers. The purpose of the .DS_Store file (Desktop Services Store) is to remember your preferences for displaying a particular folder. However, they sometimes cause problems for those who need to compile from directories, use SVN while retaining invisible files,…

  • Customising Colors in Leopard Terminal

    Customising Colors in Leopard Terminal

  • iPad actions for Photoshop

    iPad actions for Photoshop Create iPad 1024×768 screenshot Click button for instant, Apple-style marketing

  • Write Shorter URL Structures in Safari

    If you want to load this URL in Safari, “http://www.domain.com/stuff/evenmore/”, all you have to type is “domain/stuff/evenmore”. Just a short tip for Safari users. Lately I seem to be using it a lot. Stupid Chrome can’t figure this one out, and Firefox loads domain.com. Weird. EDIT: Kevin wrote me to say that “Command + Return”…

  • Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

    Photoshop Secret ShortcutsUse these tips if you want to be like David Kaneda, who works Photoshop with no palettes.