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Re: iTunes 10: How to Change the Window Control Buttons Back to Horizontal

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:52:21 -0000

Oh yeah, it would work for other apps. The mailbox you're looking at and the number of messages in it isn't that interesting to me, vs more screen. But I think there are some windows like finder that would be worse off. Ultimately, it comes down to "is it acceptable to have some vertical and some horizontal?" I think it is. I also think a lot of people make snap judgements when something changes and hate before they think. I support OS evolution.. otherwise we'd all still be using win 3.1 or cp/m.. or punchcards! Gaak!

Re: iTunes 10: How to Change the Window Control Buttons Back to Horizontal

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:11:33 -0000

Weird.. I just don't think it's the end of the universe like everyone else appears to. It's a decent solution to save a few square inches of real estate that's otherwise completely wasted. I was willing to give people the benefit of the doubt that they were smart enough to transpose three little buttons, but maybe I'm wrong.

I heard a rumor that they're waiting for iTunes 23, the version that will first support holograms, for the 64-bit jump. :)

Re: iTunes 10: How to Change the Window Control Buttons Back to Horizontal

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:36:51 -0000

I've only thought about it, not tried it, but I think this is app a special case, although there may be other apps that could use this. It's all about the height of the too/button bar area and the need for a title for the window. Looking at my Safari window, without the title area, the remaining address bar and bookmark lines are too short to support vertical buttons, plus the title bar is pretty important there. The bookmark bar could be removed by the user, too, which would make the vertical buttons force the address bar to be in a huge, otherwise empty bar.

I can see having inconsistency in those button across different apps could be confusing, although 1) they're color coded so once you know what they do, it's more a matter of aiming for the yellow one, not the middle one, and B) who uses the yellow and green ones, really? :P

Re: iTunes 10: How to Change the Window Control Buttons Back to Horizontal

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:30:30 -0000

Haters gonna hate! :D I think it's a nice design change for that app. The title bar is wasted space for iTunes on a laptop screen.

If you want to experiment and then change back to the new style, repeat that command with a -0 instead of -1

Re: Mac: Print from Any Application in Black and White (Grayscale)

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:05:38 -0000

This is a great way to save money since printer ink is the most expensive material in the known universe. You can take this one step farther and use the Presets to make this even easier.

Once you have the settings the way you want (say grayscale and Fast Normal quality, my go-to default) pull down the Presets menu and pick Save As...

Give your preset a meaningful name (Grayscale, Fast Normal) and click OK. From then on, you can use these settings just by picking that item from the Presets menu, from any app.

Re: iPhone 4 Trick: Invert Colors for White Text on Black Background

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:11:05 -0000

Also a spectacular prank to play on a non-Tech-Recipes reader.

Which makes it a valuable lesson: read Tech-Recipes every day.

Re: Save MySQL query results into a text or CSV file

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:29:34 -0000

Oh yeah, you can save the file anywhere that the user running the server has permission to write. Anyone can write to /tmp, so that's a certain place to use. If the server process owner doesn't have write access to /home/myname, then you could make a subdirectory there and use chmod to make it writable by all or change the group of the directory and then chmod g+rwx the directory to make it writable by the group the server is running as.

Re: Snow Leopard - Remove MobileMe / iSync menu bar icon

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:11 -0000

I thought it was an old version of parallels.. 2.5 maybe? I think that might be the version that would let you run Win 3.1. This is all hypothetical, anyway because... Windows? Really? :-P

Re: Google Reader: Use the Send to Feature to Share Posts in Other Services Like Twitter and Facebook

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0000

That's really cool! I was wishing for this exact functionality last week.

Re: Using iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4 Voice Control Commands

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:08:06 -0000

There doesn't appear to be a way to turn it off (other than an option when the phone is locked with a passcode). But there is still a way to force quit an application that's gone astray:

Press and hold the power button (top of iPhone) until the red "slide to power off" slider appears (a few seconds). Then press and hold the home button for a few seconds until the home screen reappears.

Re: MySQL: Use CONCAT to include text in SELECT results

Quinn McHenry — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:17:42 -0000

Oops! Sorry about that! It's been fixed now. We had to fix hundreds of posts when we migrated to a new CMS, but this one escaped detection! Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Tar and compress a file in one step

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:11:34 -0000

it would be:

tar -cf - /home/eaips/var/fileName | gzip -c > /home/eaips/var/fileName.tar.gz

Re: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:15:34 -0000

Your database query may not be returning a valid result. It's good practice to make sure the result returned from your mysql_query command is valid.. something like:

if (!$result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}

Dumping the error message may help in this case, too.

Good luck!

Re: Mac OS X gain root/superuser access using sudo

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:45:54 -0000

Yeah, a prompt ending with a hash # symbol usually denotes root's shell prompt.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:14:57 -0000

Sure thing -- just add

:set number

to the file .vimrc in your home directory.

Sometime when you get bored, type :set all while in vim.. it'll show you all the available options. Chances are if there's some behavior you don't like in vim, you can tweak it.

Re: Leopard: Recovering from a Dock Disaster (Like dragging a large number of files to the dock instead of a folder)

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:08:49 -0000

I totally clicked through to see if there was a screenshot... :-)

Actually, though, backing up the dock config is a great idea. It actually seems like it could be a cool way to maintain several different dock configs.

Re: PHP: Create a File on your Server

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:11:10 -0000

Thanks andy -- I've fixed the post.

Re: Google Chrome: Use a Command Line Switch to Open in Incognito Mode

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:46:34 -0000

For those of us fortunate Mac-only rock stars who might be a teensy bit jealous that Google doesn't love us enough to share the new browser wealth, what is incognito mode?

Re: Find and delete all core files

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:57:16 -0000

I like that! Nice bit of code. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:00:39 -0000

That's great -- thanks for sharing! I haven't run into this before, but now that you point it out, it makes sense.

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:32 -0000

Yeah, totally. Normal output goes to "standard output" which can be redirected with normal measures. It's actually a nice thing that those messages are sent to "standard error" so you can redirect those but keep the more interesting responses.

find / -name something 2> /dev/null

Re: OS X: Easily edit hidden configuration files with TextEdit

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:44:50 -0000

Try looking for .bash_profile in your home directory (/Users/yourusername/.bash_profile). In my Leopard install, .bash_profile is used. I don't have a Tiger (version 10.4) installation around to check, but I suspect this may have changed in Leopard. I have both files in my home directory, but I checked and only .bash_profile is used when a shell starts.

It isn't a problem if the file doesn't exist. You can create the file in your home directory and it will work. To make sure that it is working, you can place a temporary echo command in the file, something like:

echo "running .bash_profile!"

When you run the Terminal app to start a shell, you should see that text printed out.

Re: Word 2007: Shrink Your Document by One Page

Quinn McHenry — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:20:40 -0000

Oh, man, that bugs, me, too. All apps should do that. Actually, all printer drivers should do that or have that option. The worst for me is when I print something and get an otherwise blank sheet at the end with header/footer (that I didn't really want to begin with). Nice find in the forest of options that is Word.

Re: Facebook: Email Photos from your Cellphone to your Account

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:39:57 -0000

These are emails, not text messages, right? Still dependent on your plan and you should check first, but most plans don't charge per email, only per text message. Or am I missing something?

Re: How to empty or clear the contents of an existing UNIX file

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:33:42 -0000

Nice.