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iCal with Google Calendar

macforus — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:45:36 +0000

I’m using google calendar but sometime I can’t access online. So, I also using ical with iPad and iPhone. However, iCal can’t sync my home and office computer. So, I have a only way to use iCal with Google Calendar.

How to use Google Calendar with iCal

Go to the iCal > Preferences > Account.

Click on the plus and then choose the google account. After that Enter your email and password.

You will receive the google calendar but it can access only one calendar. If you want to add other calendar from Google , go to Delegation and check your calendar.

Make Default Font in Adium

macforus — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:05:35 +0000

Sometime we want to use default font in Adium. We can change default font on display message. But it will not change in text box on chat windows. We can change text box font but it’s only work for one time. We don’t want to change every time. So, you can make like following

1. Format ( Adium Menu ) > Show Font
2. Search Font Name

3. Select Your Font and click
“Save this setting As My Default Font”

Now, you don’t need to change font in your Adium chat textbox.

New Tab instead of windows in Safari

macforus — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:10:31 +0000

Safari Menu > Preferences>Tabs>Open pages in tabs instead of windows: and change to Always.

other way:

Quit Safari
Open Terminal.app
Enter defaults write

com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

and press enter
Open Safari again

Orientation Lock in iOS

macforus — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:46:49 +0000

You can lock orientation in iPad easily. But there is no button for orientation lock for iPhone and iPodTouch. However, we wanna lock orientation sometime. If you are using iOS 4.0 or higher , you can do it. Double click the home button and Multitask bar will appear. Scroll to the left and you will see iPod control and orientation button (the first left button).

You will see lock button at the status bar.

If you want to unlock, click lock button again

Text to Speech in Mac

macforus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:57:50 +0000

Sometime, we are lazy to read article and we just want to listen. OK. Mac have this function, text to speech. Oh! amazing. Copy & Paste in App! No!! just select the text and press shortcut key. And then you will hear. How nice!

1. Open System Preferences

2. Click Speech

3. Go Text To Speech Tab

4. Click the check box (Speak selected text when the key is pressed)

5.New Dialog box will coming and then press your shortcut key.

After that, you can select the text and press your shortcut key. You will hear speech of your selected text.

Add new PATH in $PATH

macforus — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:11:07 +0000

MySQL from MAMP can’t run from terminal. You need to add mysql bin path in $PATH. From terminal you can do with export PATH like following

$ export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

but it’s only for 1 time. You close the terminal and open again. It will lost. For permanently, you need to add in profile file.

How to

open terminal

$cd ~

$open -a TextEdit .profile

In TextEdit

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-10-28_at_16:24:44: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

Add new path in export PATH like this

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-10-28_at_16:24:44: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

and then save it. Now, you can run mysql from terminal and also do mysqldump.

Show Hidden File

macforus — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:49:52 +0000

In Mac Finder, don’t have show hidden. If we want to see hidden for some reason (eg: .htaccess for web development), we can make it easily.

1. Open the Terminal
2. TYPE in terminal

$defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
$killall Finder

If you don’t want to see hidden file, just change TRUE to the FALSE.