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App Store loses "All Free Apps" link

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2008)

Apple's made some strange changes to the App Store lately. While the reviews change was a good one, this latest update is just confusing: they removed all of the "See all" links from the sidebar of the main App Store page, including the much-visited "All Free Apps" that many of our readers used to ...

TUAW Tip: Hiding the cursor when zoomed

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2007)

RogueAmoeba just linked to Mark Johns' easy little app called Cursorceror. He loves the Ctrl/scroll wheel trick, just as I do (holding Ctrl and using the scroll wheel allows you to zoom in on any part of your desktop-- especially useful for watching Flash movies fullscreen very quickly), and he ...

Terminal Tip: Showing and Hiding Disks using Developer tools

by Erica Sadun (May 1st, 2007)

In a couple of recent posts, I showed you how to how to hide drives using Finder preferences and selectively show some of them using aliases. I received a number of emails looking for more elegant solutions i.e. avoiding the look of aliases and their won't-sort-properly-like-a-real-drive behavior. A ...

Mac 101: Hide Hard Drives, CDs, etc on your Desktop

by Erica Sadun (Apr 27th, 2007)

I like a relatively neat Desktop. I keep out just those items I need to access right away for my day-to-day work. It's so easy to clutter Finder, especially when you use multiple hard drives and partitions, an iPod, a memory card reader and the odd CD or DVD. An often-overlooked Finder preference ...

Dock Dodger - easily hide running apps from the Dock

by David Chartier (Apr 11th, 2007)

We've found easy methods for hiding the icons of running apps in the Dock, but you typically have to get your hands dirty with editing files inside the app package itself. For users who prefer a more simple drag and drop operation, there's always Dock Dodger. From the same FoggyNoggin Software ...

On TextExpander cursor positions and why the Dock hiding feature no longer works

by David Chartier (Feb 14th, 2007)

Users of the fantastic TextExpander who are also fond of the cmd+opt+d shortcut for hiding/showing the Dock might have noticed a weird behavior with this shortcut as of late. To be specific: the shortcut doesn't quite work anymore, even in 10.4.8; pressing it will cause the Dock to hide (or ...