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Historical errata for Mac Kung Fu

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Tip 2, Mission Control zoom disabling doesn’t work in 10.7.2

“defaults write com.apple.finder QLPanelAnimationDuration 0;killall Finder”

-from the free preview.

2011-10-05There's confusion here as to whether Michael means Mission Control zooming, or Quick Look zooming. He quotes the Quick Look zoom deactivation command, but references Mission Control. \n \nI've now upgraded to the 10.7.2 GM release (i.e. the final release) and both the Mission Control and Quick Look deactivation commands continue to work perfectly. Therefore I assume that Michael was a confused here.
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Tip 15 - typing technical symbols

On my Mac, ⌥2 gives ™ not ⌥⇧2.

2011-10-05This has already been fixed.
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The TOC of tips is way beyond human RAM. It would be valuable to arrange the tips logically in sections instead of in one big chapter.

2012-02-06Thanks, we'll consider this for a future edition of the book.
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Tip 4: … describing how to select text in a Quick Look window can be made system-wide by modifying the command given to the following:

defaults write -g QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE;killall Finder

This way it’ll work not only in Quick Look windows in a Finder window or on the desktop, but also in Mail windows, print-job previews, and so on.

2012-02-11
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From tip 191: “Perhaps the quickest is to use the Reading List, which is built into Safari and is designed to let you read pages even if your computer is offline.”

This is false and easily verifiable. In Lion, no web pages are saved for offline access. Reading List is just another bookmark folder, although not in usual sense.

2012-06-10Already fixed in P2.0 although I believe in Mountain Lion this will actually be a reality!
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What would be really useful is a decent index. Trying to find what you’re looking for by trawling through a TOC is hard work.

You can try the index at the back?

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