Moving files with a “cut and paste” in Lion

Finally, Apple implemented an option to move a file after the Copy shortcut has been pressed: instead of regular CMD + C and CMD + V to copy & paste, try CMD + C and CMD + Option + V to copy & move.

iTunes small pop-up with song title

Via this post i found a gorgeous trick. I always wanted a pop-up notification displaying the current song title (when changing track, for just a few seconds). I used a Growl plug-in in Snow Leopard, but now it’s possible to enable a similar feature in Lion just with a comman line trick via the Terminal. [...]

QuickLook within Mission Control

When you activate “Mission Control” (four fingers up, F3 key,…) you can inspect any window just moving the mouse over it until its border gets highlighted, and then hitting the space bar.

Enabling auto play on QuickTime (via Terminal)

When we open a movie associated with QuickTime we’ll see it paused at the first frame. If we want QuickTime to behave as most media players, and automagically playing it we have to open the Terminal and write this command: defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1 For other QuickTime hacks see this post.

Disabling application restore in Lion

A new feature of Lion is the ability to restore your environment. When you open Pages, for instance, you’ll see all the documents you were working on, and this could be a nice thing. For some applications you open and close often this is very annoying. For me QuickTime, Preview and VLC should not behave [...]