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Leopard Tips and Hints

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Whoshnot said:
Pressing option in the finder changes the quicklook icon to a presentation icon, thus by clicking it you go to full-screen mode instantly.

Very useful for pictures! :)
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Thank you!!


I have found a better way to do a smart folder for All Documents. Currently, it holds MP3s and all sorts of files in there that I would not classify as documents.

I just open a new finder window and in the search box type:

.pages OR .doc OR .xls

Make sure it is set to just search File name and not entire contents.

You can add .PDF or whatever else you wish. Save that and add it to your side bar.
 
Remote Management

You can set up a machine w/ Remote Management (Under System Preferences). This allows you to view the screen from other computers (can limit by user) and click around. I'm assuming it's just VNC well packaged. Combined w/ the new parental controls, Leopard is very powerful for parental control.

NOTE: my kids are 3 & 5 and, as such, have no right to privacy on their computer. At some point, maybe they will, but that's years down the road.
 
wesleyh said:
How do you set it to search just file names?
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Whoshnot said:
Pressing option in the finder changes the quicklook icon to a presentation icon, thus by clicking it you go to full-screen mode instantly.

Very useful for pictures! :)
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Thanks so much for this. Option-Spacebar also works. If only Apple would put the slideshow shortcuts back (a, i, f).
 
Project said:
Thank you!!


I have found a better way to do a smart folder for All Documents. Currently, it holds MP3s and all sorts of files in there that I would not classify as documents.

I just open a new finder window and in the search box type:

.pages OR .doc OR .xls

Make sure it is set to just search File name and not entire contents.

You can add .PDF or whatever else you wish. Save that and add it to your side bar.
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thanks thats a sweet tip mate. i completely forgot about boolean spotlight searches in leopard. so many features i havent used in these couple of days!
 
arn said:
Per Request, here's a thread for people to post their cool tips and whatnot about Leopard

I'll start with the ones I posted to the front page

• Photo Mosaic Screensaver: Choose a photo album from the Desktop & Screen Saver control panel, then click on the 3rd "Display Style" (Mosaic). (ed note: Very cool.)
• iTunes Visualizers (iTunes -> View -> Visualizer): Lathe, Jelly and Stix
• Spotlight can be used as a calculator
• Control Panel -> Speech -> Text to Speech. New Alex Voice in Leopard.
• DVD Player with Chapter Index and Full Screen Controls
• Retro and Security screensavers are included in the Developer Tools (instructions)
• Coverflow works for fonts.
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This Tips and Hints thread is a great idea, but is there a list anywhere of all the 300+ Leopard features with details of how to access them?
I know they are featured on the Apple website but that tells you what Leopard can do, but not how to do it.

BTW I particularly love the Mosaic Screensaver. I found it by accident and was startled the first time it appeared:eek:
 
motulist said:
Okay that's great, but there's still one MAJOR flaw with Mac printing. For such a well designed OS, it's bizarre to me that there are TWO different menu items resulting in TWO different option windows that are both required to control your print output - the "Print" window and the "Page Setup" window! It's so crazy and inexplicable to me that Apple added such a huge amount of unnecessary complexity!

Has this changed in leopard?

I'm sure there is some historical or advanced-user reason why this is the way it is, but for 99% of users, having your print control settings spread across 2 totally disconnected windows is a huge annoyance and is very confusing to new users.
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well it seems the print windows in the macworld article combines most of the options in the page setup and print dialogs in Tiger. As well as adding supplies in there.

personally i think it would be good to have a slider as well to dictate the size of the printout
 
numlock said:
well it seems the print windows in the macworld article combines most of the options in the page setup and print dialogs in Tiger. As well as adding supplies in there.

personally i think it would be good to have a slider as well to dictate the size of the printout
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It does appear that way from the screenshot, but I want to know for sure - is the "Page Setup" command no longer in the file menu? If so, then hallelujah, because that albatross has been hanging around the Mac OS's neck since at least OS 7 in 1995! (The year I switched).

Mac OS printing has been such a kludge for so long that I can't believe Apple isn't being more vocal about this major feature upgrade! The only reason I can imagine why Apple isn't advertising this very major new feature is that the new printing features aren't especially revolutionary, they're just bringing OS X up to a reasonable level of usability that it should've had all along, and bringing attention to the new features will only make people realize that a major part of an OS's very basic functionality has been embarrassingly messed up all along up until now!

But regardless, if page setup is gone and the new print dialog is as good as it looks in that screenshot then this is a HUGE upgrade to OS X! :D

Let's spread the word!


p.s. I agree, having a print size slider would be an awesome feature.
 
Macnoviz said:
If you want an opaque menu bar, you can adjust your desktop image with a 22 pixel tall (YMMV) #666666 coloured (again, you can choose other colours, too) rectangle, to fit right under the menu bar.
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I tried to do that but then Photoshop Elements wouldn't start. Turned out that the whole PS Elements family doesn't work with Leopard. Another new feature! :(
 
numlock said:
well it seems the print windows in the macworld article combines most of the options in the page setup and print dialogs in Tiger. As well as adding supplies in there.

personally i think it would be good to have a slider as well to dictate the size of the printout
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I just checked this. Yes there are situations where the Print and Page Setup are combined and only Print appears in the file menu. It makes a lot more sense to have it this way. Both Safari, Preview, iCAl and Address Book but elsewhere, when I checked, Text Edit for example did not have it.

It seems the convergence of both the Print and Page Setup dialogues has to be implemented on a per app basis.
 
Stephenbw said:
My PS Elements 3 starts ok in Leopard.:)
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Lucky you. Adobe states on a Leopard compatibility sheet on their website that with PS Elements 4.0 and earlier under Leopard you are "Likely to encounter issues for which there is no resolution."
 
knattlhuber said:
Lucky you. Adobe states on a Leopard compatibility sheet on their website that with PS Elements 4.0 and earlier under Leopared you are "Likely to encounter issues for which there is no resolution."
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Oh, nice. All their versions of Elements may fail under Leopard. Thanks a bunch, Adobe.
 
crazedbytheheat said:
You can set up a machine w/ Remote Management (Under System Preferences). This allows you to view the screen from other computers (can limit by user) and click around. I'm assuming it's just VNC well packaged.
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Yes, and it also works with Vine Server on Tiger machines. I've updated only one Mac (flawlessly, using the upgrade option - took about 30 minutes from when I started my clonable SuperDuper backup, to when I booted into Leopard), and I can see still the other two Macs and connect via VNC. Sorry, CotVNC, your time is up - well, maybe not. I will still need it for remote connecting to my work Linux machine ... unless someone knows how to get it listed in the Shared sidebar.

Edit: by the way, Quick View works on smb shared drives - makes getting things from work much easier.

The only problem with using screen sharing if you're running Vine Server (I have it on my main Mac, the one I updated to Leopard) is, it shows up in the Shared list. If you try to connect to it, the Sharing app crashes. I use Vine Server since I can limit connections to only via ssh tunnelling.
 
Mobile Home Directory

Under the Accounts setting in System Preferences you can change where you home directory is situated. No longer do you need to use NetInfo.
If you right click on the account you want to move the directory for you will see an advanced options menu.
 

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1g8tech said:
Under the Accounts setting in System Preferences you can change where you home directory is situated. No longer do you need to use NetInfo.
If you right click on the account you want to move the directory for you will see an advanced options menu.
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Frikkin COOOL!


Will doing this play havoc with time machine, I wonder. Anyone done this?
 
A small but really useful new feature, as listed on the macworld top ten overlooked features is the ability to scroll in inactive windows...

Scrolling background windows
A few months ago, I ran into an issue on the small screen of my MacBook, where I was going back and forth between Microsoft Excel and Safari, trying to synchronize data between a Web page and an Excel workbook. All I was doing in Safari was scrolling the window as I was checking data. After the third click-to-Safari-and-back, I remarked to myself that I really wanted background scrolling capabilities. And Apple just went out and did it in Leopard. If you put your cursor over a non-active window, you can now use your trackpad or mouse’s scroll wheel to scroll it up and down without having to click in it. That’s cool.
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http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlooks/leopard_s_hidden_gems/index.php
 
cowinabox302 said:
A small but really useful new feature, as listed on the macworld top ten overlooked features is the ability to scroll in inactive windows...
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Woohoo! This is a nice feature. I would also like Apple to make things run in the background when I am navigating the menubar cause it can get annoying but that's just a minor issue.
 
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