Stevedev Inc. » Computers http://stevedev.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Cinch http://stevedev.com/2009/12/19/cinch/ http://stevedev.com/2009/12/19/cinch/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:44:34 +0000 Steve Thompson http://stevedev.com/?p=62 Found a great tool today in Cinch. It replicates the window behaviour in Windows 7 on the Mac where you can drag a window to the edge of the screen and it resizes to 50% of the screen width. If you drag to the top then it goes full screen.

I’ve been using that behaviour a lot in Windows 7 and it’s nice to have it on my Mac too. Check it out:

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/

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  1. Load up Terminal.app
  2. cd [folder that isn't working right]
  3. rm .DS_Store

That’s pretty much it. I suspect that the .DS_Store file gets a little messed up once in a while. Deleting it doesn’t cause any problems as it just stores some meta data about your files. Every folder on your Mac has one of these so if you are having problems, try this solution first.

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