Select and copy text within Quick Look previews

Quick Look is a delightfully simple way to browse the contents of the files on your Mac without launching their parent apps. (Select a file, press the space bar, that's it.) But if you’re looking at, say, a PDF or Word document, Quick Look can frustrate, because it doesn't provide any way to select and copy text; if you find a snippet of text you’d like to copy and paste, you still need to launch the parent app. Unless, that is, you know a secret shared by Keir Thomas.

To make text selectable in Quick Look previews, you just need to enable a hidden Finder setting. Select and copy the code below, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities), paste that code at the prompt, then press Return:
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE; killall Finder
After a second or two, the Finder will restart. Once it does, you'll be able to select text in Quick Look previews and copy it to the Clipboard for use elsewhere.

If you decide you don’t deserve to select text in Quick Look, you can turn this feature off with another Terminal command:
defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection; killall Finder

Zeitzone herausfinden/Which Timezone

ganz einfach via date
date liefert einen String dieser Art: "Mi 27 Jul 2011 12:55:39 CEST"
date -u liefert "Mi 27 Jul 2011 10:55:39 UTC" als koordinierte Weltzeit

Oder das Dokument localtime auslesen
ls -al /etc/localtime
das liefert: "lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 23 Jul 12:16 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin"

Read the actual text content from a PDF document

Also, there are command line programs available to extract the text from PDF's that you can call with LEP. On Mac, you can also use Spotlight's mdimport command:
/usr/bin/mdimport -d2 /path/to/pdf/file.pdf >& pdf.txt
Nils Kollandsrud

Ordner öffnen, Open Folder

LAUNCH EXTERNAL PROCESS("/usr/bin/open "+Char(34)+"/Volumes/"+$Pfad+Char(34))
Pfad mit /
- Markus Weber

V12-Server mit OSX starten

Im Handbuch zur V12 findet sich: Under Windows, 4D Server can be launched as a Service.
Compatibility note: This function is no longer available under Mac OS starting with version 12 of 4D Server.

Wat Nu? AppleScript schreiben und dieses zum Startobjekt machen ist zumindest ein Workaround.

Das AppleScript ist einzeilig. Sage der Anwendung im Ordner, sie solle das Dokument öffnen:
tell application "/Applications/V12/4D Server.app" to open "/Mac/db-folder/DB_Name.4DC" with permissions
mit allen Erlaubnissen, sonst fragt das OS nach, ob der Server eintreffende Verbindung akzeptieren darf. Ohne Erlaubnisse wäre also hinderlich.

Finding IPs connected to your web server

On Mac OS X

note: this also shows outgoing connections from web browsers

Get all IPs connected to your web server:
netstat -nat | sed -n -e '/ESTABLISHED/p' | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $1"."$2"."$3"."$4}' | sort

Get all unique IPs connected to your web server:
netstat -nat | sed -n -e '/ESTABLISHED/p' | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $1"."$2"."$3"."$4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Gefunden bei CommandLineMac

Admin-Paßwort beim Drucken: 4D 2004 und MacOSX.6

Die beiden "Showstopper" waren ja der Open Documents Bug (Crash nach x geöffneten Dokumenten) und der Print Bug (admin-Kennwort zum Drucken erforderlich). Der Open Document-Bug ist mit 10.6.3 behoben und zum Print Bug hat Bernd F. dieses aus der NUG zitiert (ville merci):

As we are/were experiencing the printing prompt for authentication when using 4D Client 2004.7 on Mac OS 10.6.x -- we've been given a solution by Jon Rhoades and passed on by Chiarelli Fabio that seems to have fixed the issue. Thank you Chiarelli and Jon!!!
We have solved this by adding the following key to the
/etc/authorization file:
<key>system.privilege.setugid_appkit</key>
<dict>
<key>class</key>
<string>allow</string>
<key>comment</key>
<string>To allow 4D printing</string>
</dict>

Mit einem Admin-Account ist der Spuk weg, mit einem einfachen Account nicht.

Terminal commands for improving Spotlight

Spotlight works great most of the time, but occasionally you may need to do a bit of tinkering to get it to work properly. Most of us have probably had a problem where Spotlight won't find a file you know is there. Here are a few Terminal commands for changing hidden Spotlight settings, performing more complicated searches and updating the index. …

Do you ever want or need to show all of OS X's hidden files?
Or you also should be able to call it from 4D's LEP with
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1; killall Finder
Change the 1 to 0 to toggle the display state.
These two simple double click Applescript apps will do the job you all without you having to drag out the terminal window. yours Kevin LaTona

Set Printer Presets from the Terminal

If you want to set the printer preset from the terminal in 10.6 (or from an AppleScript via a 'do shell script' command), it's different than how it's done in previous versions of OS X.

Assuming you have a printer called 'Copy Room Printer' and a preset called 'double-sided, stapled,' you would run the following two commands:

• defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPref 'double-sided, stapled'
• defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPrefType 3

Printing PDF on Mac

You can do this with the lp command line utility. For example:
lp /My_PDF_Document.pdf
There are some command line switches which give you further control.

Rob Laveaux in der iNug

Combine two PDF files into one without rasterizing

We use the python script provided in Mac OS X 10.4 and up. Location: /System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py
Usage:
join [--output ] [--append] [--shuffle] [--preview] [--verbose]
Here is a sample commandline for joining two pdfs:
python '/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py' -o '/Output.pdf' '/Input1.pdf' '/Input2.pdf'
You can also use it to split a pdf into separate one-page pdf's if required.
Nils Kollandsrud

Leider nicht so zu verwenden. Schade! Python[5203] : The function `CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.