Switching Between Tabs in Safari

Filed under Mac Hints on Sunday, 22 June, 2008 10:09 pm

Safari Web Browser

Apple don’t make this obvious in Safari’s preferences pane, however after some digging I figured out you can actually switch between tabs using the keyboard:

   <- Switch to Left Tab               Switch to Right Tab ->
Command + Shift + [               Command +Shift + ]

 

Update: Tha Shell suggested a way where you can configure the keys you want to use to switch tabs…

Step 1: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > then choose the Keyboard Shortcuts tab
Step 2:  Press the + key at the bottom of the window:

Do the same as above, but now type ‘Select Previous Tab’ and assign a key as before.

Voila! you can now switch between tabs with a keyboard shortcut that you prefer. I wasn’t able to get command + right/left to work, if you get it to work, let me know by leaving a message :)

 

Vista…Still Hurts My Head

Filed under General + Mac Hints + Microsoft + Tutorials on Monday, 9 June, 2008 11:05 pm

Okay, so a few days ago I decided that I needed a new hard drive for my Macbook Pro.
I’m going to share with you my experiences of doing the upgrade and giving Vista a go instead of XP.

I ended up settling on a Western Digital 320GB Scorpio drive which has been an awesome drive that i would recommend to anyone.
Doing this upgrade meant that I needed to clone my current hard drive to the new one and I needed to find a way to move my current Boot Camp partition to the new drive along with it. For moving the Leopard partition, I used Super Duper!. The great thing about this program is that it’s fast, does a perfect bootable copy to the new drive and it’s free. I used another free Mac app called WinClone to backup the Boot Camp partition to a file, which contained Windows XP SP2.

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Next I attached the Scorpio drive was attached to an external USB caddy, and while was booted into Leopard, Super Duper worked it’s magic. I find it really is amazing that this program is able to backup while the OS is running and thank you to the developer for making it free. Anyways after it was done, I used Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant (in the /Utilities folder) to partition the drive for Boot Camp. I now had 300GB to play with so I gave 40GB for Windows… just enough space for Visual Studio and a few games.

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