I use remote desktop for windows in x11, as it’s the best version out there – believe it or not, it’s still better and faster than the latest version micro$ft released just a few weeks back. Anyhows, one annoyance for me is that the apple menu strip, often times will overlap your windows applications, making resizing them or closing them a bit of a nuisance.

Well it turns out that you can hide the menus strip in os x on an app by app basis.

You do the following.

1. View the package contents of the application you wish to hide the menu bar for,
2. Open the file Info.plist in a good text editor,
3. Add the following to the list of keys:

<key>LSUIPresentationMode</key>
<integer>4</integer>

Bingo!

Your menu bar will now hide whenever you select the app.

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I often take this for granted, but then friends happen to see me do this and always ask me how it works…

It’s something I missed on os x after years of windows – the ability to create a new document just by clicking the right mouse button. Thankfall Nufile is a context menu plugin which exists for this purpose, it’s donate-ware and can be downloaded here:.

I’ve used it for almost a year without problems. You can customize it to add whatever file types you like, and even provide templates. The help on the website is really thorough, so I suggest you check that out.

Enjoy.

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Having come from windows, I was looking everywhere for this!

Fortunately, some dude called Illari Scheinin wrote a couple of apple scripts that do the job. A link to his website and these scripts is here

He points out some apps you can use to run these scripts, they may be good or not, I don’t know because I use the excellent Quicksilver. If you don’t know about quicksilver, well go download it!

I’ll blog about it more in the future, but needless to say you can store both of these scripts in a suitable folder somewhere, which quicksilver is scanning. I have a folder specifically for apple scripts which I’ve set quicksilver to scan. It’s simply a case of dump these 2 script files in that folder, make sure quicksilver is scanning it, then set up a trigger for cut files.scpt (I did it with CTRL + APPL + X) and one for paste files.scpt (I chose CTRL + APPL + V). You can now select one or more files/folders in finder, and use cut and paste!

HOORAY! and thanks Illari!

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