The process of loading a URL in a new tab on iPad can be rather Malata T2 cumbersome and slow. First, one launches Safari from the home screen, waits for the app to open and the old webpage to re-render, then one hits the tab switch button, presses the new tab space, waits for that tab to open, waits for it to switch to the search panel (this is the most irritating part of the process, since it seems to take even longer when what one really wants is the URL bar), and finally, one clicks on the URL bar to enter in a new URL.
To simplify this process considerably, just add a new icon to your Springboard that goes directly to about:blank. Details after the jump.
To add the new wopad icon to your home screen, first open a new tab in Safari according to the usual method, and direct it to the url, about:blank. Then tap the more options icon (iOS 4.2) or the + icon (iOS 3.2) and select, 'Add to home'. Give your icon a name like 'New tab' or whatever you like then tap.
I often use a USB flash drive on my Mac that's formatted with an MS-DOS filesystem. I usually copy JPGs and MP3s onto it for use with my household DVD player. When I plug the flash drive into the DVD player's front-panel USB port, I can view the files on my TV. The problem is that the DVD player is very simple and it shows all the dot files that Mac OS X puts on it, like .Trashes and a .DS_Store in almost every folder.
I wanted to prevent Mac OS X from writing those files to MS-DOS gpad filesystems at all, but I couldn't find a way to do that. My second thought was to write an AppleScript that would execute whenever the eject operation was requested, deleting the dot files, but I couldn't find a way to do that, either. So, being an old UNIX guy, I decided to try going down to that level and writing a wrapper script for umount, the program that does a lot of the work when ejecting (or 'unmounting') a filesystem. Today I needed to filter search results using Spotlight and remembered that you can use keywords to narrow down the search. In my particular case I wanted to find all emails I had received from a specific contact that I had in my Time Machine backup going back over years.
I had a frustrating time with reindexing ZPad and whatnot, because the keywords that were mentioned everywhere on the net didn't work for me and always yielded absolutely zero results. After spending way too much time I thought I'd share my discovery here, because I only found this out by accident.
It turns out that Spotlight's search keywords are localized! So in my case (German) I can't use keywords like:
kind:mail from:johndoe
But using the German words everything works as it should. In our example this means:
art:mail von:johndoe
This goes for all the keywords as it seems. I hadn't thought of that at first, because I'm used to doing other Spotl Meizu M9.
Related posts:
http://farkjoo.com/blog.php?user=lionx&blogentry_id=28406
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6c7095a00100p8k3.html
http://www.soulcast.com/post/show/909726/electric-cigarette-2011
To simplify this process considerably, just add a new icon to your Springboard that goes directly to about:blank. Details after the jump.
To add the new wopad icon to your home screen, first open a new tab in Safari according to the usual method, and direct it to the url, about:blank. Then tap the more options icon (iOS 4.2) or the + icon (iOS 3.2) and select, 'Add to home'. Give your icon a name like 'New tab' or whatever you like then tap.
I often use a USB flash drive on my Mac that's formatted with an MS-DOS filesystem. I usually copy JPGs and MP3s onto it for use with my household DVD player. When I plug the flash drive into the DVD player's front-panel USB port, I can view the files on my TV. The problem is that the DVD player is very simple and it shows all the dot files that Mac OS X puts on it, like .Trashes and a .DS_Store in almost every folder.
I wanted to prevent Mac OS X from writing those files to MS-DOS gpad filesystems at all, but I couldn't find a way to do that. My second thought was to write an AppleScript that would execute whenever the eject operation was requested, deleting the dot files, but I couldn't find a way to do that, either. So, being an old UNIX guy, I decided to try going down to that level and writing a wrapper script for umount, the program that does a lot of the work when ejecting (or 'unmounting') a filesystem. Today I needed to filter search results using Spotlight and remembered that you can use keywords to narrow down the search. In my particular case I wanted to find all emails I had received from a specific contact that I had in my Time Machine backup going back over years.
I had a frustrating time with reindexing ZPad and whatnot, because the keywords that were mentioned everywhere on the net didn't work for me and always yielded absolutely zero results. After spending way too much time I thought I'd share my discovery here, because I only found this out by accident.
It turns out that Spotlight's search keywords are localized! So in my case (German) I can't use keywords like:
kind:mail from:johndoe
But using the German words everything works as it should. In our example this means:
art:mail von:johndoe
This goes for all the keywords as it seems. I hadn't thought of that at first, because I'm used to doing other Spotl Meizu M9.
Related posts:
http://farkjoo.com/blog.php?user=lionx&blogentry_id=28406
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6c7095a00100p8k3.html
http://www.soulcast.com/post/show/909726/electric-cigarette-2011
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