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I accidentally discovered this !!
I assigned "fn" as my expose shortcut.. so if i press shift+fn ..it does expose in slow mo!! very very cool.. its the same effect as if u press shift+ stacks.
let me know if that tip has been on here so I can feel embarrass about being so excited about it . haha
I assigned "fn" as my expose shortcut.. so if i press shift+fn ..it does expose in slow mo!! very very cool.. its the same effect as if u press shift+ stacks.
let me know if that tip has been on here so I can feel embarrass about being so excited about it . haha
It's well known, and it has nothing to do with fn being your assigned key command. If you hold down shift while doing almost any graphic effect, shift makes it go in slow mo. I think it looks most cool when you hold down shift and click the yellow minimize button on a window. Shift + dashboard also looks pretty cool.
haha darn.. im such a noob..
No worries, we were all new once! Since you're a newbie, I'll drop another cool one on you. Hit apple-option-ctrl-8 and see what happens. Hit it again to revert back to normal.
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.
Totally agreed. Now only if the newb Mac users would go to Windows forums and say, " Why can't Windows just drag pictures and text off the web "LIKE MAC".
whoa.. Coool!! .. haha what is the purpose of that? .. ??
i also learned today that u can do expose while in spaces mode.
whoa.. Coool!! .. haha what is the purpose of that? .. ??
i also learned today that u can do expose while in spaces mode.
nothing really, although it might be useful in some lighting conditions and for reading a lot of text or something, but it's just like the slow-motion animations when holding shift, a neat little trick for fun or demonstration
Actually, it has a couple of very real uses.
It was originally designed for vision impaired users so that they could invert the colors to see the screen better. But it also has a secondary use to those of us with normal vision. If you ever come across a website with poor legibility due to the color choices the site made, then you can just flip the color and get better legibility! I do this all the time with websites that use white text on a black background. They think it makes their site look cool, but all it does it make it annoying to read your site's text. So I just hit that key command and boom - white text on a black background turns into black text on a white background!
You can test resolution independence without the dev tools if you use the Terminal:
"defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor x"
where "x" = a percentage of your choice. Values of x > 1 will make things bigger; values of x < 1 will make things smaller. For example, if you're on a Macbook (1280x800) and wish to simulate 1440x900 resolution, set up a proportion, where 1440/1280 = 1/x. x =~.89, so plug in .89 into the above terminal line.
You have to reopen an application to see the effects. This also works in Tiger, but the Finder and other applications look much better (more cohesive) in Leopard. To return things to normal, enter a value of 1 for x. I currently have my Macbook set to .89 (a 1440x900 screen in a 13" package is great). Some apps, like Minefield, look wretched with this feature on, so I open them at x=1 before changing the value in the Terminal.
"defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor x"
where "x" = a percentage of your choice. Values of x > 1 will make things bigger; values of x < 1 will make things smaller. For example, if you're on a Macbook (1280x800) and wish to simulate 1440x900 resolution, set up a proportion, where 1440/1280 = 1/x. x =~.89, so plug in .89 into the above terminal line.
You have to reopen an application to see the effects. This also works in Tiger, but the Finder and other applications look much better (more cohesive) in Leopard. To return things to normal, enter a value of 1 for x. I currently have my Macbook set to .89 (a 1440x900 screen in a 13" package is great). Some apps, like Minefield, look wretched with this feature on, so I open them at x=1 before changing the value in the Terminal.
Discovered a great tip by accident today. When using Spaces, of course you know that you can assign keyboard shortcuts to move from space to space. Here is what I discovered.
1. If you click on a window and hold that click along with using the keyboard shortcut to move to another space it will take that window that you are clicking on to the next space with you. I have found this useful.
1. If you click on a window and hold that click along with using the keyboard shortcut to move to another space it will take that window that you are clicking on to the next space with you. I have found this useful.
option key and grid
Lots of Leopard hints here, so I may have missed this one - if it's already been posted, excuse me. If you click on a stack, let's say the 'Application' stack, and it is in grid mode (or however you say that), you can hold down the 'option' key and then start opening folders one at a time. As you are selecting these folders, one after another, the 'Application' grid will stay open, contrary to what it would do if you weren't holding down the 'option' key. If you weren't holding the 'option' key, the grid would disappear after clicking on the first folder. BTW, as you're opening up folders in this manner, you can also open up applications. Same thing. The grid stays open. Hope I made myself clear - at least somewhat
Lots of Leopard hints here, so I may have missed this one - if it's already been posted, excuse me. If you click on a stack, let's say the 'Application' stack, and it is in grid mode (or however you say that), you can hold down the 'option' key and then start opening folders one at a time. As you are selecting these folders, one after another, the 'Application' grid will stay open, contrary to what it would do if you weren't holding down the 'option' key. If you weren't holding the 'option' key, the grid would disappear after clicking on the first folder. BTW, as you're opening up folders in this manner, you can also open up applications. Same thing. The grid stays open. Hope I made myself clear - at least somewhat
Awesome Quicksilver Tip for all you hard core users out there.
1. Just started using this recently and really like it, in the plug-ins there is one called shelf Module. Turn this one on.
2. When you call Quicksilver you can hit the Command + Option + s key and it will pull up the shelf window. In this window you can put website links that you copy from the web browser. Getting to the Web Browser link window, the shortcut is command + l. I paste MacRumors Threads in there until I am done with them and then delete them.
3. When the Shelf window is up, drag it to the side of your screen and I will clip to the side of the screen. Then it will disappear.
4. Now you can access this shelf window by dragging your mouse over to the side of the window where you put the shelf and it will pop up. Then disappear when you are done. You can also call it up when you invoke Quicksilver and hit the Command + Option + s key.
I use to use URLwell put I like this better since it is already built into Quick Silver.
1. Just started using this recently and really like it, in the plug-ins there is one called shelf Module. Turn this one on.
2. When you call Quicksilver you can hit the Command + Option + s key and it will pull up the shelf window. In this window you can put website links that you copy from the web browser. Getting to the Web Browser link window, the shortcut is command + l. I paste MacRumors Threads in there until I am done with them and then delete them.
3. When the Shelf window is up, drag it to the side of your screen and I will clip to the side of the screen. Then it will disappear.
4. Now you can access this shelf window by dragging your mouse over to the side of the window where you put the shelf and it will pop up. Then disappear when you are done. You can also call it up when you invoke Quicksilver and hit the Command + Option + s key.
I use to use URLwell put I like this better since it is already built into Quick Silver.
If you want to move a file from one folder into another, drag the file, hit expose to see all open windows, then just drop it wherever you want! This lets you move a file directly into any open folder OR drop it into any application's window!
Also, if you want to drop it into a subfolder within one of those open windows, do the same thing but instead of dropping the file on the small expose mini-window, instead hover the file over the expose mini-window for a second and then that expose window will be selected and will de-expose with the file still held in your drag so that now you can drop it into any sub folder too.
I don't know if it's new to leopard or not, but it's news to me!
Please don't post a reply that is not in response to the topic of the thread. That's called thread jacking and it's against the forum rules. It's not a big deal, but you're new to the forum so I just wanted to give you a heads up. Welcome aboard.
Also, if you want to drop it into a subfolder within one of those open windows, do the same thing but instead of dropping the file on the small expose mini-window, instead hover the file over the expose mini-window for a second and then that expose window will be selected and will de-expose with the file still held in your drag so that now you can drop it into any sub folder too.
I don't know if it's new to leopard or not, but it's news to me!
Please don't post a reply that is not in response to the topic of the thread. That's called thread jacking and it's against the forum rules. It's not a big deal, but you're new to the forum so I just wanted to give you a heads up. Welcome aboard.
Here's a way to make Spaces task-based, rather than app-based:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348
Not sure if this has been posted anywhere, but I have just found that I can drag a tab from Opera or Firefox into Safari.
Sometimes I have found that I am testing on a different web browser, or en up going to a website that I'd like to look at and bookmark in Safari. So I can drag the tab from one browser to another to save retyping the address.
Sometimes I have found that I am testing on a different web browser, or en up going to a website that I'd like to look at and bookmark in Safari. So I can drag the tab from one browser to another to save retyping the address.
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I just found a cool one, while holding down the play/pause buttons on the apple remote, it will sleep your mac
I just found a cool one, while holding down the play/pause buttons on the apple remote, it will sleep your mac
If you mean point to focus to make a background application suddenly active, then your friend is wrong.
However, leopard does have a new feature that allows you to scroll inactive windows by just hovering over the inactive window and scrolling as if it was active.
Pretty neat.. especially with safari i find
And clicking play while your mac is sleeping will wake up your mac again. Great when you are using front row.
It's kind of inconsistent, though. The middle-click won't bring the window into focus. And to click a link, you still have to click the window to bring it into focus, THEN click the link. It's just a minor thing; not a big deal at all.
Press CMD, and click what you want to click to have it (Link, button, etc.) act clicked but keep the window in the background
wide columns in finder
i'm not sure if this is new in leopard or was even available in tiger but if you hold OPTION and drag the columns out wider they always stay at this width forever, works good for me because i love column view but i hate it when you cant see the entire file name so get the best of both worlds!
i'm not sure if this is new in leopard or was even available in tiger but if you hold OPTION and drag the columns out wider they always stay at this width forever, works good for me because i love column view but i hate it when you cant see the entire file name so get the best of both worlds!
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