Mac: If you like to keep your dock automatically hidden for more screen real estate on your Mac, it might bug you that it takes a good half second for it to show up when you mouse over it. This simple terminal command will eliminate that delay, so it shows up instantly.
Mac: MoveAlong is a simple utility that lives in your Mac’s menu bar and provides you with a list of video windows you currently have open. Selecting any one of them will cause that video window to jump out of the way when your mouse crosses its path. Why is that useful? So you can watch a particular video while you’re doing other things and keep it from either blocking your work or getting blocked by it.
Filling up a bucket of water is awkward and frustrating when it doesn’t fit in your sink. Redditor mrfitzy shows us a genius way to fill it up hassle-free. All you need is a dustpan.
iOS (jailbreak): Orbit is a handy jailbreak hack that adds home screen page switching in the style of Mac OS X’s Expose feature. This is very useful if you’ve got a lot of apps and pages to manage.
Mac: Previewing a document in Mac OS X Lion using Quick Look? Want to open it in an application instead? You don’t have to use the default application that Quick Look suggests in the top righthand corner of the preview window. Just click and hold down on the “Open with…” button to see several available options.
As TechCrunch noted earlier today, a “guest mode” on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch would be a very useful feature. Fortunately for those of you who jailbreak, you can have that feature right now.
Ourspot is a social networking service that creates individual “spots” for sharing things you find on the web with specific people. What you want to share and who you want to share it with is entirely up to you.
Mac OS X Lion has a new feature that lets you add a custom message to your login screen. It’s easy to set up, and a good way to provide contact information in the event you lose your computer.
It’s both difficult and illegal to drive safely if you’re using your iPhone. Vokul is a new app that lets you control your iPhone will driving with nothing but your voice.
Mac: When you’re typing a word you don’t know or remember how to spell, you can quickly get a list of suggestions by pressing the escape key in most OS X text editors. Just type as much of the word as you know, press escape, and OS X will offer up as many possibilities as it knows.
