A less frustrating suspend shortcut for VMWare Fusion

“⌘ + w” in VMWare has been frustrating me for months. The situation goes something like this: I have a VM open and active I hit “⌘ + W” like an idiot My VM starts suspending, forcing me to wait for suspending and resuming to complete I needed a way to stop myself from accidentally closing my VMs multiple times per week. The Fix It’s pretty simple, we just remap “⌘ + w” to something else like “⌘ + ⇧ + w” in System Preferences. First, open System Preferences and go to Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts. Use “File->Close” as the menu title and VMWare Fusion as the application. ...

July 31, 2013 · 1 min · Paul

Disabling the Print hotkey in OS X

The print hotkey is not useful to me. If it opened immediately and was immediately dismissible with esc it would be less frustrating but as it is every time the print dialogue opens I need to wait several seconds before I can dismiss it regardless of which app it’s in. “⌘+P” has been frustrating me for a while, being next to “⌘+[”. Now that i’m using Sublime Text 2 as my editor of choice it’s worse because “⌘+P” is ST2’s default quick open hotkey. ...

July 23, 2013 · 1 min · Paul

Custom Theme for Sublime Text 2 and XCode

My personal syntax highlighting theme. I use this in various forms aside from Sublime Text 2 including on this blog for the code examples and in XCode, Sublime Text 2, and where ever else I can get away with it. Color Codes Background - #161714 Text Color - #e6e2da Green - #ADBC68 Dark Blue - #4793CB Light Blue - #A5CFE1 Burnt Orange - #D76E28 Orange - #FD971F Grey - #686760 ...

July 22, 2013 · 1 min · Paul