I really like Fire­fox 3 and have always used it as my default web browser on both the Mac and PC plat­form. How­ever, the way that Fire­fox han­dles PDF files is some what of an annoy­ance. If you are like me you too will find it rather odd then that when in Fire­fox and you click on a web link to a PDF file it will auto­mat­i­cally down­load the file and then open the PDF up in Apple’s default Preview.app. Now the eas­i­est way to solve this prob­lem is the go ahead and start using Safari. How­ever, one of the rea­son I use Fire­fox is for the amount of add-ons, exten­sions and cus­tomiza­tion you can do in it. So as usual their is a Fire­fox exten­sion which adds this fea­ture. (I believe their is an exten­sion for pretty much every­thing) This sim­ple exten­sion adds the abil­ity to view PDFs directly into Fire­fox. You can down­load the Fire­fox exten­sion here.

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Alright, I’ve had enough. When­ever I open an .tor­rent file, Opera auto­mat­i­cally opens, and not Trans­mis­sion. So how do I change a file’s default application?

First, find that file (in my case, a .tor­rent file) and right click (or con­trol + click) it. Select “Get Info” from the menu.

From this menu, click the tri­ange beside the “Open With” pane to reveal the default appli­ca­tion switcher.
Select your app from the drop down menu (I want Trans­mis­sion) and then click “Change All“
Voila! Close the win­dow!
Note: Oh, and if you only want that sin­gle file to open in that pro­gram, and all the rest to still stay in the other type, don’t click “Change All”. Just close the window.

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Alvin writes:

How can I find out what size my Hard Drive is on my 15inch Mac­book Pro.
Its proces­sor speed only says 1.87???THANKS

One way to do this is by look­ing for the Mac­in­tosh HD icon on your desk­top like this:

Right click (or CTRL-click if you’re using a sin­gle but­ton mouse or a lap­top) on the icon and you should see this:

Left click on ‘Get Info.’

The screen that appears next should have a bunch of infor­ma­tion about your hard drive, and in the ‘Gen­eral’ sec­tion (you may have to click the tri­an­gle to open up the infor­ma­tion) you should see this:

The capac­ity on this com­puter states 111.47GB which is actu­ally a 120GB hard drive (visit this wikipedia entry for an expla­na­tion of why the dif­fer­ence in sizes under the sec­tion titled ‘Con­sumer Con­fu­sion). It’s got 27.81GB avail­able and 83.66GB used.

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