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Leopard Tips and Hints

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CalBoy said:
I'm sorry, what links are you talking about?
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I have a German-language system so I don't know the exact expressions in English. There is a bookmark bar under the address field in Safari. Above the tabs bar. You can activate it by "Safari menu - View - Show Bookmark Bar" or something like this. And with Apple key + <Number> you can directly choose any of those bookmarks in the Safari's bookmarks bar if activated. By default. Please look in Safari's Main Menu "Bookmarks - Bookmark Bar" - these shortcuts are activated even when the app is set NOT to show the Bookmark Bar located between Address text field and Tabs Bar.

There was some confusion on this (Cmd+<number> or Ctrl+<number> for changing spaces) earlier in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4430259#post4430259

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4429693#post4429693
(see "edit" there)
 
Habakuk said:
I have a German-language system so I don't know the exact expressions in English. There is a bookmark bar under the address field in Safari. Above the tabs bar. You can activate it by "Safari menu - View - Show Bookmark Bar" or something like this. And with Apple key + <Number> you can directly choose any of those bookmarks in the Safari's bookmarks bar if activated. By default. Please look in Safari's Main Menu "Bookmarks - Bookmark Bar" - these shortcuts are activated even when the app is set NOT to show the Bookmark Bar located between Address text field and Tabs Bar.

There was some confusion on this (Cmd+<number> or Ctrl+<number> for changing spaces) earlier in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4430259#post4430259

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4429693#post4429693
(see "edit" there)
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Ahhh. I never used the numerical shortcuts for my Bookmarks Bar. I guess I see why you don't like the :apple: combo for Spaces, but it suits me still :eek:
 
I just found this today, I'm sure it's been posted before but in case no one has seen it...I was typing in the search box in the System Preferences window when I noticed this effect:



I thought it was kind of neat how they darkened the items that don't match the search, and highlight the items that do match it. Are there any other places in Leopard where this happens?
 
tmoney468 said:
I just found this today, I'm sure it's been posted before but in case no one has seen it...I was typing in the search box in the System Preferences window when I noticed this effect:



I thought it was kind of neat how they darkened the items that don't match the search, and highlight the items that do match it. Are there any other places in Leopard where this happens?
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This was already there in tiger, and perhaps even earlier, but I never really understood the helpfulness...
 
When you go to send a file by bluetooth it no longer lists your wireless keyboard or mouse. Nothing major but still good.
 
tmoney468 said:
I thought it was kind of neat how they darkened the items that don't match the search, and highlight the items that do match it. Are there any other places in Leopard where this happens?
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Try the find function in Safari...
 
psychofreak said:
Try the find function in Safari...
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Yeah, the find feature in Safari has been greatly enhanced, although this works in Tiger (Safari 3 only mind) as well.

I got one that I haven't read about anywhere online yet, I find it really cool...
In the new Quicktime Player, when you full-screen a movie, there's a new button on the HUD to switch between Fill Screen/Panoramic, and Fit to Screen.

Pressing it eliminates the black bars above and below your movie (cutting off a little bit mind you), and if the movie is originally square, and you have two black bars on either side of it (left and right) as opposed to above and below, it will get rid of them as well.

It's pretty genius though how it seems to cut off those bars -- it stretches the image a little bit but only by it's sides... the center of the image stays pretty much exactly how the original looks before the stretch, but the edges stretch out significantly, this way you can essentially make a full-screen movie a widescreen without any annoying distortions.
 
When in spaces activate expose show all windows.

Now if you drag a window to a new space expose will adjust all the windows so you can still see all of them. Looks quite cool.
 
Did a quick search in this thread, but for those who want finder to apply a view to all folders (sans the ones you have special view settings) just use command-j, make your settings, and click set as defaults, simple as that! I saw some people complaining about something like that and I think that should take care of the problem..
 
zaxour said:
Did a quick search in this thread, but for those who want finder to apply a view to all folders (sans the ones you have special view settings) just use command-j, make your settings, and click set as defaults, simple as that! I saw some people complaining about something like that and I think that should take care of the problem..
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Hey I like that!:)

I like pics and Powerpoints in Coverflow, but files I like in grid format (I know, I'm bizarre). Thanks!:)
 
decksnap said:
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.
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Do you have a list of your shortcuts?

I still haven't found PC equivalents on a Mac. I've been using both for many years. If you got shortcut keys, could you post them?

thanks

P.S. I've gone through the shortcuts suggested on this site and the "Magical Macintosh Key Sequences" and it still doesn't make the cut for what I'm looking for.
 
digitalpops said:
Do you have a list of your shortcuts?

I still haven't found PC equivalents on a Mac. I've been using both for many years. If you got shortcut keys, could you post them?

thanks

P.S. I've gone through the shortcuts suggested on this site and the "Magical Macintosh Key Sequences" and it still doesn't make the cut for what I'm looking for.
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what are you looking for?
 
do applications in use not have a little arrow or some sort of icon pointing toward it in the dock like they did in tiger?
 
mdwsta4 said:
do applications in use not have a little arrow or some sort of icon pointing toward it in the dock like they did in tiger?
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They have a light-colored dot. Some people think they are hard to see, particularly when the background/reflection in the dock is a light color.
 
Doctor Q said:
They have a light-colored dot. Some people think they are hard to see, particularly when the background/reflection in the dock is a light color.
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It was a bit hard to see at first, but that thread about modding the dock to be darker really helped out. Here's the thread.

PS: Doc, I love your new "Q" avatar.:)
 
Great Tipp!

cowinabox302 said:
Someone in a thread on tabs in the finder posted this image

finder-20071028-012431.jpg


I didn't know you could add stuff there. All you have to do is drag something there and wait a second longer than you'd think and a space opens up for it. Is this new in leopard?
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I used, haven`t founf before. Really usefull. Thank you!
 
In Leopard, can you print select text only, like you can in a PC? That is the one thing that has bothered me about mac's. There is no way to just select text and print only the text.

Has this been changed in Leopard?
 
Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

digitalpops, I have a long list of keyboard shortcuts on my website:
http://www.danrodney.com/mac/

There's enough on there to show anyone that the Mac has many shortcuts. Windows may have ALT-something keystrokes, but it doesn't have the fast, direct keystrokes Macs do. For instance on a Mac you can create a folder with Cmd-Shift-N and the PC has NO keystroke to do this (at least one that I've ever found).
 
Racktacular said:
In Leopard, can you print select text only, like you can in a PC? That is the one thing that has bothered me about mac's. There is no way to just select text and print only the text.

Has this been changed in Leopard?
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Oh man this is one thing that has always bothered me as well. No idea if it's in Leopard, haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, anybody else know definitely one way or the other?
 
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