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 as “Paste and match formatting”, which first pastes rich text and then formats it. Continue reading
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). Continue reading
Two major questions about Quartz Events that we’re currently puzzling over:
We have a couple of ideas about (2), but clueless about (1).
If you have an account on StackOverflow, I’d really appreciate if you upvote the questions.
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.
Happy New Year!
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 word ‘hack’ from geek speak, because we, the developers of SmoothMouse, do things that Apple does not want 3rd party developers to do, to make mouse movement bearable in OS X. We’re facing a lot of challenges because of that. But that’s not all. From time to time we also stumble across bugs in Apple’s APIs. This is another challenge. Continue reading
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, Postbox, iPhoto. Continue reading
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 explanation) after running a very simple bash script that unloads my kext.
…but then a moment of enlightment suddenly occured to me! Caution: geek humor →
I’ve been asked many times if SmoothMouse will support trackpads. Continue reading
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Project SmoothMouse is looking for developers who want to improve mouse experience in Mac OS X. Particularly:
Interested? Please don’t hesitate and email me at dae@smoothmouse.com. Would be good if you include some basic information about yourself.
Other way to help the project is help spread the word. Continue reading
