Refined by Fire

Always cool when you’re clipping along on something and by complete mistake you discover a great trick. I’m pretty sure most OSes have a simple text editor. Mac OS X’s is called TextEdit. Frankly, I use it for just about every lightweight text-editing because it is so versatile. Last night on my commute home, I was pondering and prioritizing life as I usually do about this time of year â?? something ’bout the upcoming spring me thinks. Well, we hit a bump in the road and my finger nailed ESC and POOF! up comes an autocomplete dialog. Thought that was some pretty awesome usability.

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!Pressing ESC in TextEdit reveals an auto-complete

Tags: autocomplete, TextEdit, trick

If you’re running Windows in a Parallels environment on an Intel Macintosh, you may have found that the shift-constrain-copy keyboard shortcut no longer works. Ctrl-drag-copy still works, but the shift-constrain no longer works. I’ve laid out how to change the keyboard configuration in Parallels to remedy this.

Continue reading