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The three tips that I found the most useful have to be the ability to turn off the Time Machine nags about which disk you prefer to backup to - especially a problem if you have multiple drives connected to your Mac. It can easily be shut off using the following command typed into Terminal:
The second is actually not an OS X-specific tip, but definitely a useful one. It is a bookmarklet that you can keep in your bookmarks folder that lets you do site-specific Google searches while on a page. It’s very easy to get set up and extremely useful. Drag me into your bookmark bar (don’t click on the link, add it to your bookmarks), or save the following code in the address field of a bookmark:
The third is the ability to go from Terminal to Finder or Finder to Terminal very easily while keeping the structure you were in. i.e. If you are in Finder and in the Applications folder, you can run this app and will end up in the Terminal in the Applications directory - ready to run a command. To do so you will need to create a script, in AppleScript, using the following code:
To get a better understanding of the methods I posted here, and to view the full list, check out the article and video at Macworld.com.
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