Useful programs and some nice tweaks

• If you can’t get your IDL applications that reads mouse clicks to work: try type these two lines in  Terminal or an xterm, and restart X11:

defaults write org.x.X11 wm_ffm -bool true
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true

• Set up automatic completion of UiO e-mail addresses in Mail: choose Preferences/Composing, click Configure LDAP, use these settings:

• How to make your own keyboard shortcuts for menu items: as an example, here is a movie showing how to make a shortcut for marking all messages in a Mail folder as read:

• Norwegian (and other non-english languages) spell-checking:
  • Leopard: install CocoAspell. Remember to install the actual dictionary after you have installed the Aspell interface (instructions on CocoAspell webpage).
• Move and resize application windows with keyboard shortcuts + clicking anywhere in the window, optional focus-follow-mouse and auto-raise of active windows: Zooom (shareware)
• Safari:
  • Ad blocking (or rather, flash blocking) in Safari: ClickToFlash.
  • Disable Safari’s ability to open PDF files: type in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

• Focus-follow-mouse between Terminal.app windows:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES

• An alternative to Terminal.app and X11’s xterm: iTerm.
• View, edit, convert most image formats: GraphicConverter. (UiO has a site license)