NICE one. Gonna use that one a lot. Now we need a shortcut to open the bar at the bottom for adding apps.
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Leopard Tips and Hints
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NICE one. Gonna use that one a lot. Now we need a shortcut to open the bar at the bottom for adding apps.
there are many hints in this thread which are for Tiger to. i think its useful for pre Leopard Mac OS X users. maybe this thread should have its name changed to "Mac OS X Tips and Hints"?
Being a new Mac user, I accidentally discovered this one (I'm sure it's been there forever, but it's pretty cool and you can't do it in windows):
In your web browser, you can just left-click an image you want to save, and drag it right out onto your desktop - no need to right-(control)-click and do "Save image as"
Now if you want to really take advantage of this, put a shortcut on your desktop to a folder where you're planning to download a lot of images, and you can just drag them off the browser and straight to the folder, without having to go to each image and do "Save as", and go through the whole file browsing stuff each time.
I was wondering a few things:
1. Is there a way to hide a *single* hard drive from the desktop? I have a "scratch disk" drive on there that I'll never open (no need to), so I'd love it if I could hide it.
2. For Photoshop users: Is there a way to KEEP Photoshop in a certain space, other than having an image open? I have it set to open in a particular space at login, but you never see it until you hit the button for it in the Dock.
Thanks!
-Bryan
In your web browser, you can just left-click an image you want to save, and drag it right out onto your desktop - no need to right-(control)-click and do "Save image as"
Now if you want to really take advantage of this, put a shortcut on your desktop to a folder where you're planning to download a lot of images, and you can just drag them off the browser and straight to the folder, without having to go to each image and do "Save as", and go through the whole file browsing stuff each time.
I was wondering a few things:
1. Is there a way to hide a *single* hard drive from the desktop? I have a "scratch disk" drive on there that I'll never open (no need to), so I'd love it if I could hide it.
2. For Photoshop users: Is there a way to KEEP Photoshop in a certain space, other than having an image open? I have it set to open in a particular space at login, but you never see it until you hit the button for it in the Dock.
Thanks!
-Bryan
You're almost totally in the OS X mindset now, but it's even simpler than what you wrote. The folder that you want to often drag and drop things into shouldn't be on the desktop where it can get hidden by other windows, the folder should be in the dock!
Isn't that great?
You can also drag words and drop them onto the dictionary.
Dragging words to other apps will place them (ie, if you drop a word onto the Stickies app icon, you'll get a new note) and you can add them to new windows by just dragging and dropping.
hah, that's true...I use my downloads stack constantly for temporary downloads, then I delete them when I'm finished (or move them to an archived directory if I need to keep them.)
One thing I tried which *didn't* work (why not...
) was dragging an image file *onto* my browser window to drop into the attachment bar in Google mail so that I wouldn't have to open a file browser...does this actually work? Seems like it should...-Bryan
One thing I tried which *didn't* work (why not...
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I don't think it does but if you open the file browser window then drag it on that window it will automatically go to the location of that file.
Trainguy: Very cool tip, thanks! That's a reasonable workaround to what I was trying to do
-Bryan
-Bryan
Something I just found out today, might have been around before but I've never seen it.
If you have a Mac with user accounts and you connect it to another Mac with 10.5 through Target Disk Mode, the user accounts on the TDM Mac will show up on the Login Window of the other Mac.
You can then log in and have the exact same setup as you would have on the TDM Mac.
Looks like both machines have to be 10.5
If you have a Mac with user accounts and you connect it to another Mac with 10.5 through Target Disk Mode, the user accounts on the TDM Mac will show up on the Login Window of the other Mac.
You can then log in and have the exact same setup as you would have on the TDM Mac.
Looks like both machines have to be 10.5
That's pretty cool, I didn't know that! You learn something every day I suppose.
i'm getting my first mac next week, so thanks for the awesome thread guys very useful can't wait!
can't wait!Drag tabs between Safari windows
Not only can you drag a tab out of a Safari window to create another, you can use this technique to drag tabs between existing Safari windows.
Not only can you drag a tab out of a Safari window to create another, you can use this technique to drag tabs between existing Safari windows.
Ok, here is how to put a widget on your desktop, for tiger too.
enter this in Terminal:
Log out, then back into your account to restart the dashboard, go into dash board, make sure you have a keyboard shortcut set for dashboard, for new Al. keyboards, press the dashboard icon, now move the desired widget that you want on your desktop around the dashboard, while moving it around, press the dashboard button on your keyboard, the dashboard appears on your desktop!
enter this in Terminal:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YESLog out, then back into your account to restart the dashboard, go into dash board, make sure you have a keyboard shortcut set for dashboard, for new Al. keyboards, press the dashboard icon, now move the desired widget that you want on your desktop around the dashboard, while moving it around, press the dashboard button on your keyboard, the dashboard appears on your desktop!
http://www.macworld.com/article/132443/2008/03/leopardsurvival1.html
tips for the Finder. My April edition of Macworld came today, and it's got like 50 tips n tricks for Finder, Apps, Dock, etc. If there's enough interest I can post some of them, or maybe start a new thread...?
tips for the Finder. My April edition of Macworld came today, and it's got like 50 tips n tricks for Finder, Apps, Dock, etc. If there's enough interest I can post some of them, or maybe start a new thread...?
If this has already been posted I apologize. I prefer to view my stacks as folders and wish they would open the same way (like they used to with Tiger). Is there a hack so that a single click would just "Open" the folder? I realize this can be accomplished with an Control-Click (corrected). Just want it the way it was
If this has already been posted I apologize. I prefer to view my stacks as folders and wish they would open the same way (like they used to with Tiger). Is there a hack so that a single click would just "Open" the folder? I realize this can be accomplished with an Option-Click. Just want it the way it was
i think you mean Command+click
Thanks for the tip, but Command+Click opens the parent folder. Not quite what I was after. Control+Click allows me to select Open "Documents" (for example).
Actually, control-clicking a docked folder opens up the parent folder's window that contains the docked folder instead of just opening up the window that contains the contents of the docked folder. So even control-clicking a docked folder in leopard is not as useful as just clicking a docked folder used to behave for the times when you want that functionality.
I'm quite happy that I can now set it so a single click pops up a list of the contents in a docked folder, as opposed to control-clicking most of the time like I used to have to do. However, there are some docked folders that I always want to open as a window. So it'd be super cool if in addition to the options for viewing a docked folder as a list or grid if they'd also add an option for 'view as window.'
To Apple; add an option for 'view as window' to the choices of list or grid view settings and then this whole initial stacks debacle will be forgiven because the end result would've been worth it.
open the folder and set it to your desired view. next open Show View Options by selecting it from the View menu or pressing "command-J". then tick the top option "Always open in ".
If you want to send a link to the image to someone else you can drag and drop it directly from Safari on to the mail icon on your desktop.
To send the image itself, drag it from your desktop to the mail icon in the dock.
You can do the same with highlighted text, which you can also drag to the Safari icon to open a new window showing search results.
Maybe this will work:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/immaculate_desktop.html
As a new Mac user this you may find this page useful:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/
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I just found this out today by myself.
You know you can hold down CMD+ctrl+D to see a word's dictionary if you highlight that word in Safari right? yeah now don't let go of the buttons and move your mouse. You will see that you can actually get a definition of any word that you highlight with your mouse, as long as it is in the dictionary. Really helpful. For example if there are two words close together that you want the definition of, you can just press Cmd+ctrl+D only once instead of two times or more.
You know you can hold down CMD+ctrl+D to see a word's dictionary if you highlight that word in Safari right? yeah now don't let go of the buttons and move your mouse. You will see that you can actually get a definition of any word that you highlight with your mouse, as long as it is in the dictionary. Really helpful. For example if there are two words close together that you want the definition of, you can just press Cmd+ctrl+D only once instead of two times or more.
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