Tla Systems Releases Pcalc 3.4.1 For Mac
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Price: $19 (or less depending on prior version owned)PCalc is a shareware calculator, written by James Thomson, author of another long-time fave of mine,. And yes, there are many, many calculator apps out there, including a couple freebies from Apple, but PCalc is one of my favorites - especially in its new Version 3 release. It does everything you'd expect of a high-end calculator, including tapes, scientific functions, and even includes an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) mode, first popularized on HP calculators. I've used HPs for so long that I find it hard to work in anything but RPN, so that's a big selling point for me.
For those who don't grok RPN, there are now parentheses buttons, as well, so that you can control the order of operations. PCalc even tells you how many parentheses are presently open, which makes entering complex formulas much easier. But beyond the feature set, PCalc is also the nicest-looking calculator app I've ever seen. The interface is very nice, and a 'nicer digits' option creates (in my opinion) a better looking display. PCalc even includes a super useful Widget version (for 10.4 users) that contains most of the features of the full-blown app, and hides itself quite nicely when not in use.
But don't take my word for it - Dan Frakes likes it, too, and in this week's MacGems, with lots of additional details. Although I like internet radio, and have a number of subscribed stations in my Library, I would often like to listen to my local music files without getting into a neverending internet stream.
Rather than unchecking all radio stations manually, it is possible to use a Smart Playlist to do the work for you. There are two ways to this, at least. Create a new smart playlist with either of these criteria:. Limit by Kind - does not contain - stream. Limit by Kind - ends with (or contains) - file Either of those will result in a Smart Playlist containing only your music, and no internet radio stations. Ever export an album as a web page from iPhoto? When you do so, and as you click on the thumbnails to enlarge each image, you see and Up button to jump back to the thumbnail view.
Tla Systems Releases Pcalc 3.4.1 For Mac
Would you rather see Home instead of Up? In the Finder, open your Applications folder and control-click on iPhoto (make sure it's not running). Select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, and navigate into Contents - Plugins - HTMLExporter.iPhotoExporter - Contents - Resources - English.lproj. Find the Localizable.strings file in that folder, and make a duplicate of it.
Now move the duplicate elsewhere, in case you need to revert to it in the future.Open Localizable.strings with TextEdit and scroll down where you see HTMLUpPage = 'Up'; and change Up to Home, and save the file. The next time you export an album as a web page, you'll have a Home button instead of an Up button. robg adds: You can, of course, customize the other messages in this file; just make sure you don't change anything before the = in a given row, and take care not to remove variables, such as%d and%@. Recently, somebody in the DNS system started serving advertisements to me when I type in simple URLs, like foo. I used to get failed lookups, which would make Safari try to load and I think try if that too failed. With the advertisement system, I feel like I'm using a Windows machine - I have to type the whole thing out.
If you have this shareware add-on for Safari, you can rewrite the URL before it gets requested. This turns out to be even faster than the old way. Here is how to do it:. Make a new Rule. Type the following in the URL field: ^(will match any text that lacks a period mark in it, optionally starting with and optionally ending with /. Choose 'Matching URL request action:' Transmogrify. Enter the following in the Transmogrification Replacement field: I hope this helps some folks out.
Other variations could be easily written to alllow replacement for.org or.edu (by typing, say, foo o or foo e in the location bar). I just stumbled into this new iTunes function when watching a video podcast.
If you wish to change the reference frame shown by iTunes in the Videos section of iTunes (and, possibly, on your brand new 5G iPod), just control-click (or right-click) any portion of the screen where the video is playing (be it the album art corner, or the dedicated video window), and choose 'Set Poster Frame' from the pop-up menu. The currently displayed frame then becomes the standard iTunes thumbnail for that video! You might want to pause the video in the right spot before doing this, but it also work on the fly. robg adds: Yes, this is a menu-item hint, but in a quick iChat survey this morning, not one person I asked knew about it (myself included), so I felt it was worth a mention.
I have several machines that I routinely transfer files between. After a rebuild of a PowerBook, I was unable to upload files successfully (but I could download files without issue.) The error indicated that I did not have permissions to upload. I spent a lot of time looking at owner, group and other settings between the machines, all to no avail. Then, I realized that in the rebuild of the PowerBook, I had created a 'testuser' account first, and then constructed my usual user (we'll call it 'user') account. This meant that testuser had a User ID (UID) of 501, and my user account had a UID of 502. This, apparently, was a the root of my problem when transferring files between my PowerBook and all my other machines (all of which had a UID of 501 for my user accounts).
I couldn't get iMovie HD to insert an iPhoto picture correctly. I had imported some digital camera pictures into iPhoto, and then rotated some of the images. Some others I rotated and also did a little bit of modification (i.e. Change color, crop, etc). After doing this work, I switched to iMovieHD to import my images. To my surprise, iMovieHD did not see my 'simply rotated' images with the proper orientation. Images that I also 'touched up,' however, showed with the correct orientation.
I guess this has to do with the stored state of the picture - duplicating the old one, instead of merely doing a rotation. At any rate, I was able to reproduce this several times. I've reported the bug to Apple, but for now, be aware of this limitation if you're using the iPhoto/iMovieHD integration. robg adds: I was also able to verify this behavior. As a workaround, just make sure you do some minor modification to the rotated images before trying to use them in iMovieHD-crop a small bit off, enhance one pixel, etc.
Once you've made any change at all, the rotation will be correctly shown in iMovieHD. One of the issues with using X11 under OS X is that the default window manager, quartz-wm, does not allow you to manipulate the properties of the various X windows very much. The biggest problem is that it is not possible to use a hotkey to bring to front and activate the exact X11 window that you want - you have to resort to several mouse clicks on the Dock or on the Window menu. Most users are fine with having to use the mouse, but many people aren't - we want to be able to assign a hotkey to everything.
If you are happy using the mouse to switch X11 windows, read no further. For the rest of you, here's a better description of the problem. Imagine that you have dozens of X11 windows open, and are working in the Finder. Now you want to use a hotkey to switch to a specific window, say emacs, while leaving all the other X11 windows alone. You'll quickly find that this is difficult to do.
The closest solution? Assign a hotkey to X11 using Peter Maurer's, bringing up all the X11 windows at the same time, and forcing youto spend time wading through the mess so you can locate the one emacs window you really want. Even within X11, you first have to lookup which hotkey emacs is assigned to under the Window menu. What's worse, the hotkey assigned to a particular window under that menu changes as you open and close windows, so that it's impossible to keep a specific hotkey consistently assigned to a program. The Applications menu is useless for this purpose, because it always runs a new version of the program, instead of raising a previously active window. A drastic solution would be to switch window managers (to fvwm or something else), but then you would lose the pretty and fast quartz-wm graphics. To the rescue comes a little program called, plus Butler.
The rest of this hint assumes that you aren't afraid of xterms and that you know how to assign hotkeys using Butler. Read on for the solution.