Chad Ritchie

Graphic Designer, Front-End Web Developer

Mac

Add Spaces to Dock in OS X

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Add Space to Dock in Mac OS X

To add a “space” to the dock in OS X, open up Terminal.app and enter this command.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'

Enter it as many times as you want spaces. If you enter too many times, no fear, they are easy to remove.

The spaces will not show up until you restart the Dock with the following command:

killall Dock

To remove unwanted spaces, just drag them up and out of the Dock like any other icon. To move them around, click and drag.

Complete command can be found on GitHub.

Create Web Friendly URL

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In this video, learn how to create a web friendly URL with one click by setting up a Service using Automator.

Download Automator Service

Not-So Web Friendly URL

With all of the “%20” characters, this url is practically unreadable and would be almost impossible to tell someone how to find this page verbally.

Ugly URL

Web Friendly URL

This url is much more pleasing to look at, despite all of the hyphens in place of the spaces, you could decipher this url string.

Not-So Ugly URL

Play Classic Games in Terminal

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Classic games such as 5×5, gomoku, hanoi, pong, snake, solitaire, tetris and a few others are part of GNU Emacs, part of GNU operating system, which can be accessed via the Mac Terminal.

Step 1

To access these classic games, type the command “emacs” into the Terminal to access the GNU Emacs then click Enter

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Step 2

Once you click enter the following GNU Welcome screen will display.

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Step 3

Continue with the key combination of “Esc + x”.

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Step 4

Type in one of these game’s names to start playing:
5×5
blackbox
dunnet
gomoku
hanoi
landmark
mpuz
pong
snake
solitaire
tetris

For a list of games on Emacs, visit http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames

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Step 5

Enjoy!

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Step 6

If you want to quit the game, use the key combination “Ctrl + x” followed by “Ctrl + c”

Mac 10.7 Lion Spotlight Tip – Finding the Path

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This is a tip for Mac users using Mac 10.7 Lion. In previous versions of Mac OS X, when you hover over the file, folder, etc. in Spotlight, the path would be displayed. However, in 10.7 Lion that is no longer the case. I have found a shortcut that will display the path of the item you are searching for.
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  • Step 1 In spotlight, type the file or folder you are looking for.
  • Step 2 Hover your mouse over the file, folder, app, etc.
  • Step 3 A Quick Look dialog box will appear to the left.
  • Step 4 While this Quick Look box is visible, hold down the command key and notice at the bottom of that Quick Look box the name of the file will appear. If you continue to hold the command key, the path of that file will appear.
  • Step 5 To toggle between these options you can also include the alt/option key.

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