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I’m with Shawn Blanc. I miss “Save As” too.

I miss it so much, that since upgrading to Lion, I’ve stopped using TextEdit, and I switched to free rich text editor Bean instead – simply because it still supports the “Save As” command.

So where did “Save As” go? In a lot of Apple’s own apps, it’s been replaced by “Duplicate”. It’s all part of Lion’s autosave system, which saves versions of your file in the background while you work.

Duplicating can help you achieve the same thing as “Save As”, but it’s slightly more fiddly than it was before.

So if you also miss having a “Save As” command, what can you do about it? Here are a few options.

1. You could do what Shawn Blanc did, and hack together some kind of keyboard macro that near-as-dammit replicates “Save As” – he used Keyboard Maestro to do it.
2. Or you could map the traditional “Save As” keyboard shortcut – Command+Shift+A – to the “Duplicate” command. This doesn’t really change how things work, but might make Duplicate easier to use. Gruber’s tried this. I’ve tried it too, but didn’t find that it helped much.
3. Another option is to do exactly as above, but remap the “Export…” command to the old “Save As” keyboard shortcut. This is slightly better, in that you get a save sheet right away and can type your new filename. OSX Daily has instructions for doing this. This is better, in my opinion, but frustratingly doesn’t work in TextEdit, which doesn’t have a plain “Export…” menu option (only “Export as PDF…”).
4. You could try to re-wire your brain to do “Save As” in the Finder, by highlighting the file you want to save as something else, then hitting Command+D to create a duplicate of it there. The duplicate’s filename will be highlighted, ready for you to immediately rename it there. Quite frankly, this isn’t really any less fiddly than using Duplicate as Apple intended.

Of all of these, option 3 is probably my favorite, and I’ve used it with some success inside Preview. It hasn’t helped me get back to TextEdit, though – I’m still writing my rich texts inside Bean (and happily so, I might add).

Have you got any other “Save As” hacks or tips? Do you think we should all just stop fretting about it and accept Apple’s new way of doing things? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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We’ve been hearing a lot about pod2g’s upcoming untethered jailbreak for all iOS 5 devices, but the latest blog post on the hacker’s site makes clear just how close to completion the jailbreak is for distribution. In fact, according to pod2g, it’s “near ready for prime time,” and to prove it he’s showing the jailbreak running on a stock iPhone 4.

In pod2g’s latest post, he explains how his untethered jailbreak is coming along:

Here is a new video demo of the current status of the iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak running on an iPhone 4. This is meant to reassure people that were thinking it only works on older iPods. The jailbreak is near ready for prime time (excluding 4S and iPad 2). Patches are the same as redsn0w’s. Expect the same level of stability. Some more days to wait. Be patient, we’re doing our best.

That “excluding iPhone 4S and iPad 2″ might worry you, but as other updates have made clear, this same technique for untethered jailbreak currently works on A5-toting iDevices running iOS 5 or above, it’s just taking a little more finessing to get working reliably enough for mass distribution. So while we might not get a universal jailbreak by Christmas,

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One of the first tweaks I make to any Mac I use is this neat little tweak that adds the currently playing album’s art to any song playing in Tunes.

Wouldn’t it be cool, though, if you could do the same thing on iOS, replacing the Music logo on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with the album art cover of the song you’re currently listening to? As usual, with a jailbreak and a simple Cydia download, you can.

The Cydia tweak is called AlbumArt on AppSwitcher, and while it’s a mouthful, the tweak is deviously simple. All it does is replace the music icon that resides in your iOS App Switcher with the album art of whatever’s currently playing as Music.

No settings, no bull, it just does what it says it does, all for free. If you’ve got a jailbroken device, give it a spin.

[via iDB]

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this post will help them who are using hacked iPhone and mac os x 10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08). if you want to jailbreak or upgrade the firmware of your iPhone using mac os v10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08) then you have to follow these steps otherwise your new mac os will not support to upgrade your hacked iPhone. it’s unclear if apple did this intentionally or if it’s a bug in the kernel.

you are required to be logged in as an administrator and you must provide the admin password.

• checks if you are at mac os x 10.5.6 or better (if not will quit)
• quits all running apps (with save option)
• backup the original files (AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.6) in a new folder on your Desktop
• asks for your admin password
• copy AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.5 into the desired location on your mac
• set owner:group and permissions
• rebuild the kextcache
• reboot your mac

download the automator application from here.

http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5.zip

1. unzip the archive
2. place the “Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5″ folder on your Desktop (This is important)
3. open the folder and start the application “Fix_DFU_10_5_6″
4. you will see the readme box (click “OK”)
5. provide your admin password

let the Application do it’s job

6. at the end the Finder will open another dialog box telling you that the cache is being rebuild, click “OK” or just leave the box alone. after a couple of seconds your mac will reboot automatically – done, DFU is enabled again and your mac os x is ready to jailbreak your hacked iPhone.

At my work, sometime i need to take screenshot of my desktop to make reports. I was using grab (mac pre installed software). But here my main problem is i have to press lot’s of keys(mouse). After googeling i found that there is another solution:

Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

i found this information on this site . You can check there site, there you will get some more usefull info

If you use your Mac on a cross platform network often, you’ve surely run into the obnoxious creation of .DS_Store files. If you’re curious what the file is used for, DS_Store is a hidden file for Mac OS X that stores various bits of data for the Finder to remember, like icon position, making it completely useless for anyone besides you to see. By default, your Mac will create the .DS_Store file’s all over the place including accessed computers that aren’t Macs, creating an annoying mess for network users to find. Thankfully you can easily turn off the creation of DS_Store files on network connections:

Stop .DS_Store file creation on network shares

Launch the Terminal and type the following exactly:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Restart your Mac and you will no longer have those pesky .DS_Store files appearing every time you browse a network share.