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MacBook keyboard hacks for # (hash/pound/numbersign)

One of the few annoying things about my oldish MacBook Pro is its keyboard, for example a few unresponsive keys, but particularly the lack of a # key. It’s a UK keyboard, and has £ for shift-3, and # is hidden in alt-3 (not labelled). This is fine in native desktop apps, but less fine [...]

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2009 11 07 Andrew Tips Comments (1)

Running RasMol from Firefox and Finder in OS X

A colleague asked me today, how can we set up someone’s Mac to open .pdb files in RasMol when clicking a .pdb link in Firefox. This turned out to be a non-trivial operation. Here’s how I did it, with RasMol 2.7.2 and Firefox 3.0.7 on OS X 10.4.

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2009 03 24 Andrew Tips Comments (0)