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Leopard Tips and Hints

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Don't know if it's posted already, but what I find very cool and very handy is that you can move/copy files with Spaces and Exposé. I have them both set in the "hot corners", so if I grap a file and go to the Spaces corner I'm getting in Spaces, than I wait a second on a particular Space until I'm moving in there, then I can go to the Exposé corner, select the window I need, and then release the file...

Cool as hell! :D
 
Dunno if this one's new or not, but anyways:

If you go full-screen in QuickTime (CMD & F) you can still use CMD & 1, 2 or 3 to resize the video playback and it keeps the black, full-screen border.
 
duncyboy said:
Dunno if this one's new or not, but anyways:

If you go full-screen in QuickTime (CMD & F) you can still use CMD & 1, 2 or 3 to resize the video playback and it keeps the black, full-screen border.
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Wow, I like that one!!:)
 
While in a stack (grid, fan, or list view) and start typing the name of the file your looking for, it will high light it just as in Finder.
 
arn said:
This one tip just made me very happy:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2667/os_x_leopard_make_application_visible_on_all_spaces

Keeping an Application active on all spaces. For me, I want iChat windows on all my spaces. It doesn't help me to move to another space to do work, if iChat disappeared. Now I can... :)

arn
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OMG!!! Thank you thank you thank you! I gave up on spaces for reasons like this!!!

Now if I can just figure out a way to have different desktop pictures for each space and have folders open in multiple spaces, like I can now do with apps.

Sigh....Mac, you got some work to do on this app. But good job for a first go of it! At least it doesn't crash.

:apple: 4 Life
 
Nice one! CMD & Scroll Wheel moves the picture up, down, left and right within the frame too.

And CTRL & Scroll Wheel zooms the entire screen, never seen that before :eek:
 
Dunno if anyone posted this but:

Suppose your internet browser is closed and you were working in some text editor and you want to google some word like "Lion". You just highlight that word and drag it to the Safari icon in the dock.

What happens? Safari launches and google search launches with your word. Very helpul and useful

This tip amazed me when I checked it out. I love Mac OS X.

EDIT: Well mine at least looks better than xUKHCx :p
 
Watabou said:
Dunno if anyone posted this but:

Suppose your internet browser is closed and you were working in some text editor and you want to google some word like "Lion". You just highlight that word and drag it to the Safari icon in the dock.

What happens? Safari launches and google search launches with your word. Very helpul and useful

This tip amazed me when I checked it out. I love Mac OS X.
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An even quicker way to do this in 10.5 is simply to highlight the word, secondary click it, and hit "Search in Google", you can also hit the options to "Search in Spotlight" or to "Look up in Dictionary."

EDIT: It appears xUKHCx has blown us both out of the water with the quickest way to do this.
 
keyboard shortcut for Time Machine

Time Machine doesnt have a default keyboard shortcut like Exposé, Dashboard and Spaces but one can be made by adding a keyboard shorcut in System Preferences.

essentially any menu command in the menu bar for an application or all applications can have its own keyboard shortcut. all you have to do is just enter the menu command exactly as it appears. if it has an ellipsis at the end (three dots) you can enter this by pressing "option+;". in 10.5.2 there is a Time Machine menu bar icon with a menu command to enter Time Machine so you can now make a keyboard shortcut to enter the Time Machine interface.

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to make a keyboard shortcut to Enter Time Machine follow these directions:

  1. open System Preferences and click on the Keyboard Shorcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse preferences.
  2. click the "+" button
  3. in the window that opens leave Application set as "All Applications", type "Enter Time Machine" in Menu Title and then enter the keyboard shortcut you wish to use. i used F7 and its one down from F8 which the keyboard shortcut for Spaces.

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now you have a keyboard shortcut for Time Machine so you dont need to have it in the dock!

you could also add a trigger with Quicksilver to do this but i find its harder to make and is a bit slower.
 
To go directly to System Profiler and not "About this mac", hold option and click on the Apple logo. System Profiler will be the first item there. ;)
 
If you're using a small picture as a wallpaper in the centre of your desktop, click the small colour rectangle next to the wallpaper style drop down menu. This give you the colour-palette. Click the magnifying glass and click on the background colour of the small pic you're using on the desktop- or any other colour for that matter- and it'll match the colours for you :D

 
Open Folder

Cooknn said:
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 :eek:
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You could always create an alias of the folder, and then put it on the dock.:D I'm pretty good at workarounds.

I use this method too, since somehow my show as list disappeared and I can only use stacks. I don't like the stacks because they usually don't show all of the files and you cant browse through folders with them.
 
Widget on Desktop

I have another one: If you want to put a widget on the desktop, download dashit (widget). Turn it on, click and hold the widget you want to put on your desktop, drag it, (You have to drag it at least a little for some reason) then press the hotkey for dashboard. If you want to reverse it, do the same thing, but on your desktop. :D
 
alexlin9008 said:
I have another one: If you want to put a widget on the desktop, download dashit (widget). Turn it on, click and hold the widget you want to put on your desktop, drag it, (You have to drag it at least a little for some reason) then press the hotkey for dashboard. If you want to reverse it, do the same thing, but on your desktop. :D
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There's a command in the Terminal you must enter before this will work, though. And the thing that REALLY sucks about it is that if it's out of the Dashboard, then it's always going to be on top of all your windows. It would be pretty awesome if it was just on your desktop.
 
Just found an interesting thing to do on the Terminal.

Open Terminal. For those who don't know where it is search it in spotlight or if you want the old school way, it is in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Now, enter "emacs" without the quotes in the Terminal. You will see a bunch of stuff.

Now hit Escape and then x. This will bring the cursor to the bottom. Now type in tetris and you can play tetris :)

Or you can type in doctor when you go through with all of that and you will meet a very annoying doctor. :)
 
free video tutorials?

Hi there. This tips and tricks are nice. Spend ages wading through them. Isn't there some youtube channel from some dude who spends his time showing how to use the OSX in nice tutorials? Or some other site where you can find some nice free video tutorials that might get me underway.
Somehow the spoken word get's me going while the written word get's me reading.
thanx
 
Spaces

Hold a window with your mouse, then press ctrl+ left, down, right, or up, and the window will move to that space. Ctrl + arrow is the default key for spaces. It is also Ctrl + number. If you changed it, press one of the keys you changed it to. Moving to another space while dragging a window moves the window to that space.
 
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