[help]setting defaults

Well, it's been a little over a month since I started playing around in the mac world on my iBook.

The one thing that gets me is that I have several programs that I prefer to the standards, and would rather have them set as the defaults for thier doctypes...

Shiira instead of Safari

Thunderbird instead of Mail.app

xPad instead of anything else for text files

I've gotten VLC to set itself as default for video, but I can't find the options anywhere in these other programs, and I'd assume it will be the same when Photoshop arives. I'm not affraid of the command line, actually that's one reason why I switched, so if the solution lies in there, no problem.

Please help, I'm sick of Safari and mail and texteditor popping up for no reason only to be closed or accidentally ignored! Thankyou,

ian

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For safari, go to safari preferences, then under General, change your default browser there.

Same goes for mail.

Seems a bit odd to have the settings there, but nevermind.

For text files, find a text file, Get Info on it, the go to the "Open this file with..." change it, then hit the "Change all button"

#256448

Awesome! The text file thing is annoying as all hell, I hope that's not the way Photoshop has to do it as well...

Thanks Ludge!

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