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Pilotmoon:

You might have learned that a certain upcoming version of Mac OS X may have scrolling that is “bass-ackwards”.

That is, when you push up on your trackpad or mouse scroller, the page content moves up too, just like on iOS devices.

I made a very minimal little app that lets you reverse your scrolling on 10.5 and above too. It’s a pure usermode app, no drivers or kexts to install. Uninstallation is a simple drag-to-trash.

Download Scroll Reverser

Trying this.

Just swapped out iTunes for Rdio in my dock.

Did iTunes just recently give this a shortcut again? That makes my day. It was ⇧⌘Z for the longest time, and then they issued that to full-screen zoom.

Here’s something that I’ve kept to myself for a while:  To move a window in the background without bringing it to the front, ⌘-click its chrome and drag.

But wait, there’s more!

It’s not just the chrome that reacts this way.  It’s any element of the background window.  Select text, refresh a page, close the window, pause a movie (iTunes’ buttons are natively able to be used without bringing the application forward); anything.

This is one of the many reasons I have my scroll-wheel button set to ⌘-click.  I also use it to open links in new tabs and deselect icons and list items (it bothers me when an email item or desktop icon is left selected;; I keep the bodies beneath the floorboard, etc.)

May 21, 2001:

“They are the most secretive company I’ve ever done business with,” says one top retailer. “They should let the news leak out, to convince the world how exciting their stuff is. That’s how everyone else does it.” Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently.

August 24, 2009 Apple May Be Highest Grossing Fifth Avenue Retailer

via Rich Lazzara