Use the Keyboard to “Unminimize” a Mac App
From here, a neat trick to “unminimize” a Mac application’s window using only the keyboard:
A very quick keyboard method to un-minimize a specific window or un-minimize all of an app’s minimized windows is this:
Command ⌘+Tab ⇥ to the app with minimized windows, but don’t release the Command ⌘ key.
While still holding Command ⌘ down, tap Down ↓ twice, first tap enters App Exposé, second tap takes you to the minimized windows,
To un-minimize all windows, press Option ⌥+Return ↩
To un-minimize a specific window navigate to the window you want with the arrow keys, then press Return ↩
Creating Encrypted ZIP Files in OS X
I found this great tip for creating an Automator service in OS X to make it easier to create encrypted ZIP archive files.
Joe Tucker Films
The Seer:
The Seer (2014) from Joe Tucker on Vimeo.
Buds:
BUDS (2013) from Joe Tucker on Vimeo.
Bonsai Love:
Bonsai Love – Diane Tucker from Joe Tucker on Vimeo.
What Trudeau Actually Said
Howard Elliott points out how Justin Trudeau and his team are being less than fully honest about the Liberal Leader’s recent statement about his party and abortion:
Don’t buy the obfuscation. Here is what Trudeau said: “For current members, we will not eject someone from the party for beliefs they have long held. But the Liberal party is a pro-choice party, and going forward, all new members and new candidates are pro-choice.” That could not be any clearer: Party members and candidates who oppose abortion are not welcome.
Note that Trudeau speaks not only of Liberal candidates, but also of party members.
The party, and Trudeau himself, later morphed those comments into something more palatable, to wit, new party members and candidates will be required to vote along party lines, and the party is pro-choice. But that’s not what he said.
If Trudeau said something he didn’t mean to say, he should just admit to it, correct his errors, and move on. Instead, he and his team are trying to dissemble, and act as though there was nothing wrong with his original statements.
He may have misspoken, but it doesn’t sound like an off-the-cuff comment. He may have made a snap decision to go beyond the official party position, which was adopted at a policy convention in 2012 and supports a woman’s right to choose.
If he was being careless or casual about the comment, that’s a big concern, especially given the sensitive subject matter. If he was going rogue on his own party’s position, Liberals should be concerned.
Eurozone Needs to Change
Clive Crook has it exactly right in describing the Eurozone:
The basic contradiction was foreseen many years ago. In a single-currency system, policymakers lack the most powerful tool for helping individual economies adjust to setbacks: interest rates set according to national conditions. To succeed, a single-currency system needs either large fiscal transfers (so fiscal policy can do what monetary policy can’t) or highly integrated labor markets (so the unemployed can move to stronger markets to find work), and preferably both. The euro area has neither, and its governments, even after an epic sovereign debt crisis, have no plans to do much about it.
Jump to Link in Safari
In Safari, Option + Tab jumps to the next link on a page. Shift + Option + Tab jumps the the previous link.
Instantly Force Quit an Application
You can press and hold Option + Shift + Command + Esc to instantly Force Quit an application.
Grab a One-Window Screenshot
To grab just a one-window screenshot, press Command + Shift + 4, then when the cross hairs appear, press the space bar. The cross hairs will change to a picture of a camera that can be placed over top of the window to be captured and clicked. The resulting window-only screenshot will appear on your Desktop.
Look Up Word in Dictionary
With your mouse cursor over top of the word you’d like to look up, press Control + Command + D. A dialog will then pop up with the word defined by the built-in Mac OS X dictionary. While holding down the keyboard combination, you can mouse around to different words in the document.