Apple’s been previewing the new version OS X a bit differently this time around. John Gruber wrote about the experience:

“We’re starting to do some things differently,” Phil Schiller said to me.

We were sitting in a comfortable hotel suite in Manhattan just over a week ago. I’d been summoned a few days earlier by Apple PR with the offer of a private “product briefing”. I had no idea heading into the meeting what it was about. I had no idea how it would be conducted. This was new territory for me, and I think, for Apple.

There are also previews from The Verge, PC Mag and Macworld. (via)

Mountain Lion looks like a nice update all in all.

♺ — #apple #john gruber #mac #mountain lion #os x

For the sake of simplicity, I assume you already have a folder on your Exchange-server named “Archive”, but it could theoretically be called anything you want.

The important thing is you see if there’s an item in your menu under Messages > Move To > Archive (or any similar named folder):

Then we need to map a keyboard shortcut so you don’t have to move the messages manually by dragging them to the archive or find the menu item.

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Find the “Keyboard”-settings
3. Choose the tab “Keyboard Shortcuts”
4. Choose “Application Shortcuts” in the menu to the left
5. Click the “+”
6. Choose “Mail” in the dialog box where it says “All Applications” by default
7. In “Menu Title”, write “Archive” without the quotes (or the name of the folder you have on your server that you’d like to use for archiving)
8. Click on the empty field next to “Keyboard Shortcut” and press “⇧⌘A” (shift-cmd-A)
9. Go to Mail.app again, select an email, press ⇧⌘A and watch that baby fly right out of your inbox.

Here’s what it should look like now:

Also, look at the first screenshot again and see the keyboard combination next to the folder named “Archive”—that means it’s set up properly.

Remember, you’re doing this on your own risk, so don’t come crying when that important email from sjobs@apple.com suddenly disappeared because this tip didn’t work for you.

#app #apple #archive #exchange #imap #keyboard #mail #os x #server #shortcut #tip #tricks

This week I read two blog posts that deal with the same issue: The metaphorical concept of files in operating systems. And why they suck.

David Shoemaker and John Perry wrote the posts I refer to, and you owe it to yourself to read them.

In short, John Perry wrote about horizontal vs. vertical organizers. He is a horizontal organizer that likes to have everything on the table at once. That way he gains an overview with everything in sight. Vertical organizers can file anything in a cabinet and take it out when they need it again. A terrible method, if you ask me – I tend to be horizontally organized as well.

But my operating system of choice disagrees with me. The desktop metaphor seems to derive from vertical organizers’ idea of filing documents in folders and cabinets. It is directly converted to how Windows, Linux (in general) and OS X handle information. Now, Google has released a beta version of Chrome OS that hopefully kicks off the end of the regime of OSs being structured for the horizontally-focused. With Chrome OS, documents are stored in Google Docs, pictures in Picasa, emails in Gmail etc.

Obviously, the “items” (text documents, pictures and emails) are still stored in a database, but for the user, the real strength comes in archiving these items with metadata wrapped around them. No need to scan for the right email – just search for it. No need to figure out in which document you wrote about “football” – just search for it. Want to find your dad in a picture? The face recognition makes sure you can search for it (well, at least that’s how it should/will be).

David Shoemaker points out that within OS X, the developers form Apple have a slight disagreement on how to approach files vs. items. iTunes and iPhoto treats what you put into them as items that you can manage, whereas iWork handles documents and files.

Today, I’ve wiped my hard disk and reinstalled OS X. I do this every now and then to clean out all the junk I tend to gather. It’s also a way for me to rethink how I work with my computer and which apps are essential to me. One thing I noticed this time, is that I need something like iTunes/iPhoto for my pdf-files. Previously, I’ve used Evernote, but it’s unstable and slow, so I’m looking for something that can help sort my documents horizontally, not vertically. Papers looks interesting, but is there anything better out there?

It’s a small step towards a new way of working with information, and I can’t wait for Apple to start treating textual information as items, not documents.

#desktop #documents #files #horizontal #iphoto #itunes #linux #Music #organization #os x #pdf #photos #text #vertical #windows

Efter Last.fm opdaterede deres scrobbler til version 1.5 skal vi nu trækkes med at se pÃ¥ deres grimme logo i Dock’en hele tiden, og det er jeg egentlig temmelig træt af.

Lidt hurtig søgning på deres forum viser at fordi nogle få personer oplevede at scrobbleren crashede, så skal vi allesammen trækkes med at se på logoet hele tiden, og det er mere end bare almindeligt irriterende. Dog er der en løsning!

Hvis du henter version 1.4.58240 pÃ¥ dette officielle link kan du fÃ¥ funktionen “Show application in Dock” tilbage.

Hurra!

#apple #dock #last.fm #os x

Jeg synes lidt jeg skylder at forklare hvorfor denne blog agerer så meget som en legeplads som den gør lige for tiden, og jeg skal forsøge at holde det kort:

I 6./7. klasse fik jeg af min mor en computer. 166Mhz CPU, 4GB Harddisk, 32MB RAM – vi snakker topmodel! Det sørgelige hakkebræt blev endevendt adskillige gange og til sidst gik den helt kold (forstÃ¥eligt nok), men det var ikke spildte kræfter; én gang for alle blev jeg interesseret i computere.

Det var i Windows95-dagene (legede dog også lidt med 3.11, men ikke meget) og siden kom 98 og det stooooore spring til XP. Hele tiden irriterede det mig at det ikke rigtigt virkede som jeg gerne ville have det til at gøre, og da min gode ven Mathies køber en Mac i sommeren for to år siden er jeg ikke helt tilfreds, men efter noget snakken frem og tilbage finder jeg ud af at sådan en må jeg bare eje. Pengene er der til en Mac mini som lige var kommet frem på det tidspunkt, og siden har jeg ikke set mig tilbage.

Der er bare ved at ske et eller andet med det der internet som fascinerer mig mere og mere, og selvom OS X er mere end bare almindeligt fint, sÃ¥ kan det faktisk stort set ikke gøre noget som internettet ikke kan gøre – for mig!

For ikke sÃ¥ lang tid siden fandt jeg Fluid som gør at jeg kan browse et website i et seperat vindue og det dermed vil “opføre” sig som et selvstændigt program. Praktisk med Jaiku, Facebook, Gmail og alt det lignende i hvert sit vindue.

Hvordan vedkommer det så det her site? Jo, det gør det på den måde at når jeg spreder min aktivitet udover så mange sites, vil det også gå ud over det her.

De små daglige indlæg ligger nu på Jaiku eller Twitter, mine billeder på Flickr og små, skæve indslag på copyblokking.com (som faktisk desværre også bliver negligeret lige for tiden).

Desuden er jeg i færd med at kode frontenden til et søgbart, kommenterbart presenceværktøj (more info TBA indenfor overskuelig fremtid), finde ud af hvordan man kan opmuntre folk til vidensdeling i en organisation vha. microblogging samt at finde litteratur til det emne (for hvad er ‘viden’ egentligt nÃ¥r det kommer til stykket?).

Det blev langt – har du læst det hele, sÃ¥ tillykke til dig. HÃ¥ber stadigvæk at kunne skrive fantastiske posts om vores selvopfundne “conversion funnel”, om hvorfor XMPP er helt genialt og fremtidens værktøj samt en hel del mere om HCI/IA/IM og hvorfor min mobil bliver mere og mere en computer fremfor en telefon.

#apple #fluidapp #hci #ia #im #jaiku #life #microblogging #os x #twitter