How To: Disable OS X Quick Look Quick Look in OS X is an awesome feature. I’m constantly using it to check out PDF files without needing to open them. But in some environments, it doesn’t make sense or causes a huge amount of issues. So to disable this, in the terminal type; (as root [...]

I hate having my Internet Browser display PDF files when I click on them. I much prefer them to be downloaded. Here are two commands that changes this default behavior. in terminal (as Admin or Root user) type: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES Essentially you’re removing PDF Support from Safari so that it doesn’t [...]

PDF files are a bit of a love/hate relationship as far as I’m concerned. I rarely need to create them, but I’m constantly looking at them as documentation for various products. Acrobat Professional is a bit expensive, even when bundled with the rest of the Adobe Suite. So a quick Google search later and I [...]