girliegeek » Mac Love http://www.girliegeek.com I'm not really a geek, I just play one on the internet. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:09:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How Long Has My Mac Been On? http://www.girliegeek.com/2009/01/04/how-long-has-my-mac-been-on/ http://www.girliegeek.com/2009/01/04/how-long-has-my-mac-been-on/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:41:23 +0000 girlie http://www.girliegeek.com/?p=274

When I want to know how long my Mac has been cranking away without a restart, I just open up Terminal and type uptime.

Right now, it’s only been up for four days. I was having some issues with TweetDeck chewing up my RAM, so I rebooted the MacBook to give it a fresh start again. But I think the longest I’ve had it going was seventeen days. Nice!!

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I have been going out of my fucking mind trying to figure out how to select and drag multiple items in Finder. It’s not that I could never get it to work – every once in a while, in the midst of multiple and repeated attempts, I’d experience sudden and unexpected success with it. But, for the life of me, I simply could not determine exactly what magical action or combination of actions my fingers had just performed on the keyboard and trackpad that had done the trick!!

I was starting to think that my love affair with my new Macbook was on its way to becoming a love/hate relationship instead. Oh, no, this will not do. Google time!

Lo and behold!! Thanks to Mort, who posted the answer in this Apple discussion thread, both my sanity and my love have been restored.

Grab [them] by the icon and then drag.

The icon?! The icon!! *hallelujah chorus*

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I needed to find out how to do this when I installed TextMate and wanted it to be my default editor for certain files instead of TextWrangler.

  • While in Finder, select the file, and control-click to choose Get Info.
  • In the Open With section, select the desired application.
  • Click Change All to set the default for all files of that type.

via Lifehacker

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In case I ever need to know this again!

  • Command-option-ESC
  • Find Finder
  • Click Relaunch

Thanks, Jay!

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