Customise "Search" in Finder (Mac OS X 10.6.2)

When a finder window is open, a search bar can can be accessed from the upper-right side.

By default, any search performed from this bar look in to "this Mac" rather than the "current folder". Once any key word is typed a new bar appears, which allows to narrow the search by clicking on the name of current folder.

I often find more useful to perform search directly in the current folder as any global search is performed already in spotlight. Too avoid this redundancy open finder and go to "Finder preferences" (cmd + ,). Select the "Advanced" tab, and select "Search the Current folder" from the bottom menu. Now all the search done with finder will look directly in the current folder.

MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

It is considered superior to Fink as all the packages and their dependencies are installed within the /opt/ folder only, keeping all possible 'garbage' well separate from the Mac OS system.

Installing it is very easy: just follow the link

http://www.macports.org/install.php

and instruction and you will be up and running in few minutes.

Also the documentation is very comprehensive

http://guide.macports.org/

Selfupdate

Once installed type on the Terminal

'sudo port selfupdate'

in oder to sync the local ports tree with the global MacPorts ports repository so you will have the latest port versions.

Install Port

In order to install a port (e. g. ImageMagick) type

'sudo port install ImageMagick'

MacPort will automatically find and install all the depend package.

Dependencies

In order to see of all the possible dependencies of a given package, type

'port deps ImageMagick'

Welcome to our new contributors

Just to introduce you to Alberto, Nima and Pablo, who are new contributors and administrators of this weblog. A very warm welcome. I hope you will manage to keep this blog alive.