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Revealing Lion’s Hidden Library Folder

July 19, 2011 Posted in Geekery, Mac, OSX by

The OS X user-level Library folder (/Users/<your short name>/Library, or ~/Library for short) is hidden by default in Lion. I’m going to show you several different ways to show and open your Library in Lion, in increasing order of geekiness and permanence. Caution: anything you do in your Library, you do at your own risk. […]


The Finder, the mini-Finder, and Cool Interactions

May 31, 2009 Posted in Geekery, Mac, tips by

Lukas Mathis recently gave a lovely detailed analysis on his blog about how the Finder  —  and various other OS’s file managers  —  interact with applications when it comes to opening, saving and creating new files. This made me want to mention a couple of very nice interactions that the Finder has with applications at the kind of “should this […]


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