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Leopard Tips and Hints

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un1ty said:
Just found one I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. When you go to Address Book and drag a picture into a contact, there's a swirly button you can click. There are PhotoBooth type of effects you can add to your contact pictures. I haven't seen some of these effects in PhotoBooth or anywhere else.
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Wow, great find! 😀

Very cool! 🙂
 
un1ty said:
When you go to Address Book and drag a picture into a contact, there's a swirly button you can click. There are PhotoBooth type of effects you can add to your contact pictures.
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You can also do this in iChat on your own picture. Use menu choice iChat -> Change My Picture.
 
LimeiBook86 said:
Nice to see it in iChat too but, something puzzles me. In Address Book there are 6 pages of effects, in iChat there are only 2. Odd 😕
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Yes, verified here as well. The Address Book effects are NOT in iChat or anywhere else. I seem to have found the Quartz Composition files for these new effects: HD/System/Library/Compositions.

Would be great if someone could add these new effects into PhotoBooth so they could actually be useful.

I wonder if these effects made it into GM by mistake since they aren't in PhotoBooth or iChat.
 
davidChief said:
Unfortunately keyboard shortcuts is still one area where Windo$e is better, and faster to use. There are a lot of handy shortcuts in Win that Mac has no equivalent for.
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Really? I'm not so sure about that. I've always heard the opposite. Admittedly I don't use windows, but I use hundreds of Mac key commands every day.
 
davidChief said:
Unfortunately keyboard shortcuts is still one area where Windo$e is better, and faster to use. There are a lot of handy shortcuts in Win that Mac has no equivalent for.?
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like?

cmd+O makes a lot more sense then using enter, especially when using cmd with other letters (W, Q, tab, H, C, V etc etc). A lot can be done without taking your finger off the command key. The number of times people have deleted files because they accidently hit backspace...
 
davidChief said:
Unfortunately keyboard shortcuts is still one area where Windo$e is better, and faster to use. There are a lot of handy shortcuts in Win that Mac has no equivalent for.

Perhaps there is a hack out there somewhere for this?
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You can change and add some shortcuts in system preferences under keyboard & mouse.
 
Not sure if these have been mentioned but Leopard now allows 2 different volumes to be set; one for internal speaker and one when speakers/headphones are plugged in.

Also, if you have a Cinema display plugged into and adjust the screen brightness by using the buttons on the side, the screen brightness overlay is shown on the Cinema display.

Just nice little refinements like these make using Leopard a pleasure.
 
The_Roo said:
Also, if you have a Cinema display plugged into and adjust the screen brightness by using the buttons on the side, the screen brightness overlay is shown on the Cinema display.

Just nice little refinements like these make using Leopard a pleasure.
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That screen brightness feature is in Tiger.
 
The_Roo said:
Not sure if these have been mentioned but Leopard now allows 2 different volumes to be set; one for internal speaker and one when speakers/headphones are plugged in.
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This was around in Tiger. I loved using it then, as I do now😎🙂
 
In Spaces, when the screen is showing all 4 desktops, you can rearrange the desktops by pulling on the blue bg of each of the 4.
 
commonpeople said:
In Spaces, when the screen is showing all 4 desktops, you can rearrange the desktops by pulling on the blue bg of each of the 4.
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Yeah, that was mentioned in the Leopard Preview video on Apple's page. I'm not sure how much I really care about it, since it's pretty easy to just hit :apple: + '1', or '2', etc, or :apple: + '←', or '↑' etc.
 
CalBoy said:
Yeah, that was mentioned in the Leopard Preview video on Apple's page. I'm not sure how much I really care about it, since it's pretty easy to just hit :apple: + '1', or '2', etc, or :apple: + '←', or '↑' etc.
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I'am not sure if you ever used it ;-) Again: It's not the Apple key but the Ctrl key! And it works with all Arrow keys - left and right travels through all the spaces (makes a return at the end or beginning of grid lines), up and down guides only to the spaces of the current grid row.
 
If you have an external drive with two partitions, and you go to eject one partition. It will ask you if you want to eject both. This is a nice touch. 🙂 😀
 

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Warbrain said:
It didn't work on all computers and I'm not sure if it works on all of them now.

Edit: Doesn't work on my iBook.
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Ahh, that's too bad. It worked on my MBP w/ Tiger. I think your iBook is trying to tell you to upgrade to the new macbooks😉😛

Habakuk said:
I'am not sure if you ever used it ;-) Again: It's not the Apple key but the Ctrl key! And it works with all Arrow keys - left and right travels through all the spaces (makes a return at the end or beginning of grid lines), up and down guides only to the spaces of the current grid row.
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You can change the keys you use. I like :apple: + whatever, so that's what I chose:
 

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CalBoy said:
have I convinced you to use :apple: + '1' when using Spaces 😛
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No sorry because this changes the links in Safari's bookmark bar by default. I think if we give tips and findings here we should make use of the default settings because otherwise most of the mac users won't be able to follow them.
 
Habakuk said:
No sorry because this changes the links in Safari's bookmark bar by default. I think if we give tips and findings here we should make use of the default settings because otherwise most of the mac users won't be able to follow them.
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I'm sorry, what links are you talking about?
 
Just noticed this during a reinstall - if you run the utilities off of the Leopard disk at start-up, there is now a firmware password option that was not available for intel macs on 10.4.
Nice added security feature - and also a really bad one if you forget the password.😉
 
When you are in drag & drop mode, move your mouse outside the finder window and any windows opened will be closed and you will return to the dragged item's original location.
 
snocat said:
When you are in drag & drop mode, move your mouse outside the finder window and any windows opened will be closed and you will return to the dragged item's original location.
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Isn't this just Spring Folders at work? I thought that was in Tiger...
 
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