Author Archives: Dae

Word 2011: paste unformatted (plain) text with Cmd+V shortcut

Update from 2018: for Word 2016 instructions, click here. The following video shows how to assign pasting as plain text (without formatting) to Cmd+V keyboard shortcut/hotkey in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac OS X. Note that it is not the same … Continue reading

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Looking for programmers to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X

We’re looking for programmers with expertise in systems programming to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X (github.com/SmoothMouse/Mouse-Movement-Recorder, released under the MIT license).

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Two questions from the SmoothMouse dev team

Two major questions about Quartz Events that we’re currently puzzling over: Weak performance of CGEventPost under GPU load. Detecting CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition. We have a couple of ideas about (2), but clueless about (1). If you have an account on StackOverflow, I’d … Continue reading

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Run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from TextMate

I wrote a simple TextMate 1.5 bundle to run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from the TextMate window. It can easily be modified to run the language of your choice.

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OS X will never be the same

SmoothMouse.com. Happy New Year!

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What to expect from SmoothMouse

SmoothMouse is not typical software. It does not have a lot in common with desktop applications that you use every day, such as an Internet browser, email client or text editor. I think SmoothMouse can be somewhat described by the … Continue reading

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“Show in Finder” not working in Mountain Lion

In OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) there is a very annoying bug which prevents “Show in Finder” (or “Reveal in Finder“, “Open in Finder“) functionality (usually a menu item) from working in many applications including TextMate, TotalFinder, Transmit, The Unarchiver, … Continue reading

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Dealing with “Installation failed” in pkgbuild caused by a preinstall/postinstall bash script

So I was writing an installer for the SmoothMouse kernel extension using pkgbuild/productbuild and there was one bug which I couldn’t get my head around for a couple of hours. Basically, Apple Installer always reported failed installation (without any useful … Continue reading

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SmoothMouse and trackpads

I’ve been asked many times if SmoothMouse will support trackpads.

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Looking for the brains

SmoothMouse, the long-awaited fix for mouse problems in OS X, has been released. * * * Project SmoothMouse is looking for developers who want to improve mouse experience in Mac OS X. Particularly: C / Objective-C programmers. C++ programmers who’ve … Continue reading

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