Monday, June 3, 2013

MacOSX Quick Look Plugin to view Zip files - This is Kewl

I always wanted to see whats inside the zip without really extracting it, which was pretty simple and straight forward with all the tools that I used on Windows (yea those days :-)) but somehow after I switched to Mac (as part of job, but am loving it) I really missed that feature of just peeking into the zip without extracting it, somehow there isnt any (or i dont know off) way to peek into the zip files on the Mac when you double click the Archive (utility) just extracts it, I was always annoyed about it, and today that is gone. Thanks to BetterZip QuickLook plugin




Thursday, May 30, 2013

Things I did not know before


1. To change to US keyboard in linux you can type the following command (make sure you are logged in as root, or do switch to root user if you have the auth)

loadkeys us

Monday, May 27, 2013

Finally got Acrobat Reader back on my Mac

Preview had been the defacto PDF / Image viewer for me after I started using my mac. I remember having an Acrobat reader installed sometime initially but never used it as Preview is open most of the time on my Mac and I did not want to burden my CPU with one more Application. But suddenly a few days back when I tried to open a PDF on my Preview it showed nothing but a small PDF watermark on all the pages and nothing else. I tried opening the PDF in Google Chrome and Firefox using the Acrobat plugin and they just display the contents with no problem, thats when I wanted the Acrobat Reader back on my Mac. I never thought it would be so difficult to get it back. I kept trying to download the Acrobat Reader from Adobe site and got nothing but a switch off your Antivirus message but nothing else. I couldnt get through that - neither the Apple communites nor the Adobe forums could be of any help and finally Google came to the rescue by showing me this site - http://www.oldapps.com/mac/adobe_reader.php. I am now back with the reader, even though I am still continuing to have Preview as my default PDF viewer :-) Thanks OldApps