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May 11, 2012 Reading time: 1 minute and 9 seconds

OSX Tips and Tricks

1. Proper finnish keyboard layout

I’ve been using a different finnish keyboard layout since the beginning, because the default finnish OSX keyboard layout is horrible. Can’t remember where I found this or if I made this myself.

To install the keylayout:

  1. Download Finnish-custom.keylayout
  2. Insert it to /Users/<username>/Library/Keyboard Layouts/
  3. Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources
  4. Enable the new “Finnish” keyboard on the list
  5. Select the new keyboard layout from the language drop-down in the system menu (top right corner)
  6. You can now hide the language drop-down menu

2. Middle-click

This is a must for me. I’m very accustomed to middle-clicking with the touchpad and a 3-finger tap just feels natural. I use BetterTouchTool to achieve this and a few other goodies: http://blog.boastr.net/

3. Terminal tweaks

I set the locale in System Preferences > Language & Text to Finnish and Terminal will have the correct UTF-8 locale. Otherwise all the ä and ö letters are all screwed up.

I set “Pro” as the default configuration and change “home”, “end”, “pgup” and “pgdn” to work without shift by setting the modifier to none in Preferences > Settings > Keyboard.

4. Finder extensions

Update July 23, 2012: cdto is much faster and better than TermHere.

I want to create new files on the Finder easily, so I found this little script application http://manas.tungare.name/software/finder-toolbar-scripts/

I also use the “Terminal here” feature regularly.

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