Copy filepath to clipboard in MAC

by abrown on April 7, 2011

MAC doesn’t copy a filepath to the clipboard natively as does windows. There are instructions on the web for creating automator actions but I’d rather not go that route. I found three solutions. I prefer the first one as it gives options for Windows, Unix and HFS routing selections.

Pathsnagger

Getfilepath, or use the CNET link instead of MacUpdate

File Path to Clip & Copy Path, for Leopard and Snow Leopard respectively

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Kodak Color Film from the 1920s

by abrown on March 30, 2011

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Turn your MAC desktop into an auto syncing dropbox folder

February 5, 2011

This post is a response to an article on the not correct blog.  It describes a method for turning your desktop into a dropbox folder, useful if you want to keep your desktop sync’d across multiple macs automatically.  It’s possible to also sync across PCs but this post references macs only, review the not correct [...]

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Fixed the too low volume on bootcamp partition

October 22, 2010

If the sound on your windows bootcamp partition is too low, try selecting loudness equalization.  Works for Realtek and Cirrus Logic drivers above.

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When I was a kid I attended a high school assembly

October 3, 2009

When I was a kid I attended a high school assembly in observation of the Holocaust.   The other kids and I met an elderly couple in the local library.  The older gentleman was a concentration camp survivor who showed us his tattoo.  He was a little difficult to understand but his wife did most of [...]

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Branford Marsalis’ take on students today

September 26, 2009
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Sometimes you’ve got to speak truth to the powerless as well

September 5, 2009

John Harwood’s take on Obama’s stay in school speech.

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NYTimes dictionary feature

July 6, 2009

Really love the dictionary feature on NYtimes.com.  Highlight any text and a small icon appears over the word.  Click the icon and it brings up an Answers.com speaking dictionary .  Useful and saves time.  Cool.

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Firefox and Safari won’t download files on Leopard

April 22, 2009

Well you can bet if both browsers aren’t working in the same way it’s some component that’s affecting both browsers.  I’m smart like that.  Turns out that I had installed Speed Download found it to be overkill and uninstalled it with  AppCleaner .  Although AppCleaner usually does a good job this time the install was [...]

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Uninstalling Saft from Safari

March 15, 2009

First of all, don’t install Saft [aaargh!] to your Safari browser.  Classic piece of annoyance-ware that won’t leave you alone until you buy it and won’t uninstall without several hours of internet research.  Here are the relevant files to delete that don’t require you to gain root access to your computer which might end up [...]

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