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Here's a quick hack to switch the Week view to showing two weeks (or more),
which is useful if your working life is arranged around two-week periods or
if you'd just like to see a little further into the future.
1.
Quit Calendar if it's open, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select
the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click
Terminal within the
UTILITIES
folder), and type the following:
DEFAULTS WRITE COM.APPLE.ICAL CALUIDEBUGDEFAULTDAYSINWEEKVIEW -INT 14
2.
Restart Calendar, and you should find that Week view now shows two
weeks of appointments. In fact, you can alter the command to make Cal-
endar show any number of days in Week view—just change
14
at the end
of the line to, say,
21
for a three-week view (although bear in mind that
this will require quite a wide screen in order to fit in the entire Calendar
window!).
To revert to showing only one week in Week view, again close Calendar; then
open a Terminal window, and type the following:
DEFAULTS DELETE COM.APPLE.ICAL CALUIDEBUGDEFAULTDAYSINWEEKVIEW
Restart Calendar, switch to anything other than Week view (i.e., Day or Month
view), and then switch back to Week view. You should now find that the display
shows only seven days per week, as before.
Tip 269
Scrap the Mac Start-up Chime
Macs are distinctive among the computing fraternity in the melodious chime
they make while booting. While PCs that do nothing more than beep might
look on enviously, the fact is that the chime isn't always welcome—boot your
MacBook Pro in a library, for example, and several annoyed faces will willingly
hand out censure.
Creating a Silent Boot
Here's how to deactivate the chime. Because there's no official way of doing
this (via a hardware switch, for example), the following solution is a hack that
works by muting your computer's volume when you shut down and then
unmuting it when you log in again upon rebooting. Unfortunately, this works
