Fortunately, there is a way to get rid of that folder. Follow these simple instructions to hide your Microsoft Office User Data folder forever.

Option A: If you just want to hide the folder and not bother about it still sitting in the documents folder, then one short terminal command will do it.

1. Make a backup of the Microsoft User Data folder sitting in your documents folder. Just in case.
2. Open up the application Terminal. Paste the following command line into Terminal and hit enter:

   chflags hidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

   That is all you have to do to hide the annoying folder.

Option B (recommended): Hiding the folder does not change the fact that the user data is still saved in the documents folder. Saving the data in a proper place is more professional and better. Here’s how:

1. Make a backup of the Microsoft User Data folder. Just in case.
2. Open a new Finder window and navigate to the following folder:

   Username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft

   If the Microsoft folder does not exist, go ahead and create it.

3. Now place the original Microsoft User Data folder (from your documents folder) into library folder:

   Username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft

4. Right click on the Microsoft User Data folder and create an alias of it. Move the alias folder to the documents folder. Once moved, rename the alias to Microsoft User Data. This is to make Microsoft Office think this is the actual folder it is looking for.
5. Now open up the application Terminal and run the following command:

   chflags hidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

6. Now the newly created alias should have disappeared from the documents folder. The actual user data is saved in the library folder and everyone is happy.

Just in case: If you want to unhide the folder, just reverse the command:

chflags nohidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

And for those having problems:

• Make sure you have copied the Terminal command correctly. One missing space ruins it all.
• If you run Microsoft Office and/or Mac OS X in a language other than english, you need to change the path in the command to suit the different file structure. For example, if you run Mac OS X in german, you need to change Documents to Dokumente.
• If the folder you are trying to hide has spaces, they need to be escaped for the command. That means you place a backslash \ in front of every space.
• For any other problems, post in the comments section.

Follow any of these instructions at your own risk.

Thanks to Richthomas for sharing the hint.

In any case, I’m a 100% Safari user and will never switch to a different one.

Now to the post, since Safari is quite new, it has some great features that have yet not been discovered. One of them is a advanced source-code inspector that makes life easier than ever, at least for developers.

Firefox has a plugin named Firebug which allows you to look at the source-code of a page, steal stylesheets in a snap and lots of other great things. Safari now supports this without any sort of plugin. A right-click inspector will allow you to get this:

The image above shows the loading time for certain things of my site. All visually interesting and the power of this “inspector” is just amazing.

Here is a image which shows the source code with syntax coloring.

This image shows how elements are set up within other elements, basically displaying the whole hierarchy and then the corresponding style attachments for this element! Coooool!

This is known through Coda already – but it is just nice to see this out of Coda.

Now how do you get this cool thing? It’s totally easy, just follow this steps:

1. Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
2. Paste in this command line:
   defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
3. Hit enter and now open Safari.
4. Open any page and then right-click (or on a MacBook: ctrl + left click) and select the Element Inspector.
5. Now you have a new window with all the features above. If you want the Element Inspector in the same window as the actual page, then click on the lower-left icon looking like three boxes
6. If you want to get the inspector away, just paste in the same command line into Terminal, only with “false” at the end instead of “true.”

I hope you enjoy this little trick.

It’s installed – I just ordered another 1GB RAM for my mac – and the upgrade was a charm. Nothing lost, only great new things were gained. First of all, I changed the background from this ugly Aurora to the Grass background – but I am still not really happy with the outcome. i guess I have to make my own cool aqua background, since Apple didn’t want to.

In any case, I took a look at the new Developer Tools and they are really great. Now it’s real fun making apps – with the new Leopard!

I guess that’s about it, what I wanted to say in this post.