Computers

One of the things I’ve been looking for in OS X is a keyboard shortcut to maximize the current window. Found this tip today:

Most apps have either “Zoom” or “Zoom Window” menu item, so type the following in the Terminal app:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Zoom" = "@^Z"; "Zoom Window" = "@^Z"; }'

That sets the keyboard shortcut to Cmd-Ctrl-Z for almost all apps. Hitting that key combination repeatedly will toggle between the full-screen and fit-to-content states.

Note: You will have to restart any running apps before the setting will take effect for them.

Both Firefox and IE7 have issues with dynamically added and removed LINK elements to feeds. Firefox will detect dynamically added feeds, and add them to the “Subscribe to…” menu, but when the link elements are removed from the DOM, the feeds still hang around in the “Subscribe to…” UI.

Internet Explorer doesn’t even detect dynamically added links.

Try it out here: Add feed | Remove feed

Google recently added a feature to GMail that requires any program interacting with it to use HTTPS, rather than HTTP (see Enabling the HTTPS setting).This is great for security purposes, but can cause programs that interact with GMail to stop working. Here’s how to get them working again:

Windows GMail notifier

Mac OS X notifier

GMail mobile application

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with Windows XP, service pack 2. I would occasionally notice a problem when running a cmd.exe command line, that typing would grind to a halt. Characters would take about a second each to appear in the console. I found that the cause was a service named “IPS Core Service”. Disabling that made the cmd.exe window responsive again.