Reveal currently open files in Mac OS X

June 28th, 2008

Something I noticed completely by accident today when I clicked on the titlebar of QuickTime Player today with the Cmd key held down. The “titlebar” is this thing here - I’m not sure that’s the right name for it:


Anyway, if you hold down the Cmd key (aka the Apple key), a menu pops up that shows the folder hierarchy of where the currently opened QuickTime movie is in your filesystem:


This works in all Mac apps that display the filename of the currently open/focused file in the titlebar.

It’s useful for me since my NADD means I try to close as many unused windows as possible to adhere to my Cmd-Tab diet - now I can close Finder windows after opening files and be sure that I can get back to them quickly. What about QuickSilver? Yup, I do use (and love) QuickSilver but I don’t let it catalog every single file!

Another nice thing about this is that I can easily reveal files in Finder in my favorite text editor (TextMate) without needing to use the project drawer:


Posted by Chu Yeow at June 28, 2008 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (4) | Category: Mac

Living on the Edge (of Rails) has a new home at the Official Ruby on Rails weblog

June 22nd, 2008

You may have heard of it, but just in case, Living on the Edge is now going to be published on the official Ruby on Rails weblog. Big thanks to Gregg Pollack for getting me the new “gig”, and more importantly, for reviving and freshening up the content on the official Rails blog.

Catch the new first edition - this one’s about the API changes since Rails 2.1.

Posted by Chu Yeow at June 22, 2008 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (1) | Category: Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails