How to quickly remove Mac apps from Quarantine

Hi all,

Getting the following annoying message every time you open the same app?

“XYZ.app” is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

I was receiving the same for Adium when I last upgraded it, and found a very easy solution to that. Open up a Terminal window and type in the following:

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Adium.app

Voila! You're done.

Let me know if that helped :)

How to copy and paste tables in Firefox

Hi all,

During my course of work, I need to frequently copy and paste tables between Firefox tabs. Having to do this, I always used to copy the tables through Google Chrome, and paste them into Firefox to resume work. Of course that's a tedious job, specially when your tables take time to generate (long queries and such). So, what's the solution?

One word, Text2Clipboard add-on!

Simply go to Tools -> Add-ons if you're on a Mac (I don't have a Windows machine to test the steps at the moment), then search for Text2Clipboard. Download and install the add-on and restart your browser. Don't forget to contribute to the developer!

To copy a table, simple right-click the table, highlight Text2Clipboard and select Copy whole table.

To paste anywhere else in Firefox (I personally have to paste some table outputs in some Firefox forms for work), just go over there, right-click and select paste.

Hope this proves useful.