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WoW fullscreen on a second monitor

Using WoW on a notebook? Want it fullscreen on that lovely second screen? Here’s how. First, make sure the displays are side by side, not above and below (you do this by dragging their graphic in the displays config). Now click and drag the little menu bar graphic from the notebook (smaller screen) onto the larger monitor in the config window.

It all moved right? Almost there. In WoW, in video settings, choose the second display as the main for the game. Now you can cmd-m and get a nice fullscreen game.

thanks for the tip, John!

grab an off screen window

When you work with multiple monitors, sometimes a window will spawn or move inaccessibly offscreen, like onto a monitor that is plugged in but off/broken/in-use-by-something-else. If you’re in gnome there’s an easy way to grab the sucker and bring it into view.

alt-spacebar, then press m

This will attach the window to the mouse cursor so you can move it. Just move the mouse until the window is in view. Voila.

maya custom shelf os x

Maya’s custom shelves sure are handy. Want on of your own? In OSX it’s a little trickier than the manual makes it sound to add menu items to the shelf. Here’s a rundown:

• Menu Items:  hold control and shift and click the menu item you want to add. But this is tricky! You have to be holding control & shift together before even opening the menus at all. if you press them after and then click an item, it won’t work.
• Toolbar Items: middle click drag onto the bar

You can rearrange items with the middle mouse click drag as well.

iphoto resolution tagger script

I like to keep an iPhoto library for wallpaper. But iPhoto doesn’t sort by resolution! This is bad for anyone with multiple resolutions. So… I wrote a script for it! Open iPhoto, select the photos you want tagged, and run the script. Poof! your wallpaper will now be tagged (in description, not keyword) by what device they would be good for.

iPhoto Tagger download

You can also edit this script pretty easily to put in your own hardware tags.

handbrake queue script

Adding lots of files to Handbrake manually is such a drag, I wrote this script to make life rainbows again. Just open Handbrake, select a folder from the open menu, and run the script. Voila! Queue filled. Download below.

fill handbrake queue script

ignore something in GIT

To ignore a file/folder in your git repo, you have to (1) add it to the gitignore file and (2) remove it from the project archive. This won’t delete it from the working directory.

Add to gitignore

You need to create and edit a file called (dot) .gitignore inside your project folder. Add one line with the relative path of each file you want to ignore. Folder should end with a /(slash). 

Remove from archive

Remove cached versions of the files by running:

git rm —cached -r <filename>

with each file.

Leave the Game Centre Sandbox

The sandbox is all well and good, you say, but how do I get out of it?? Fear not, the solution is simple.

• In the game centre app, log out of your ID.
• Using the multitasking menu, close all games that use game centre.
• Open a non beta game and log into game centre from inside.