A while back I looked at some plugins to improve the functionality of Quick Look in Leopard. If your not sure what Quick Look is. Try hitting the space bar on a file in Finder and see what happens.
Anyway, the number of plugins and add-ons for Quicklook is growing at a really fast rate!
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These aren’t exactly new, but they are two notorious Leopard Easter eggs which have gone unmentioned in Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools. -Ethan
PC Blue Screen of Death:
A lot of readers have been asking about keyboard shortcuts in OS X. Here’s two sites with a nice detailed list of keyboard shortcuts for OS X:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459
http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/21/mac-os-x-leopard-200-productivity-booster-hotkeys
When browsing Safari, you can instantly scroll to the bottom (or top) of a page by holding down COMMAND and pressing the up or down key. Useful if you are browsing a long page.
Additionally, you can scroll in long increments by holding down OPTION and pressing the up or down key.
Not much of a trick, but I just wanted to call attention to all the functionality that the new Preview packs. It’s all there, in the help menu, in “What’s New in Preview”. Now with Preview there’s a great deal more PDF manipulation.
Let’s say you have a PDF document. With the sidebar open, you can now rearrange, delete pages, you can even drag pictures or other PDF documents from the desktop into the sidebar, move them around, and Preview will make them part of the original document. It’s great when creating or editing things on the fly. This definitely adds to the post about Preview’s Instant Alpha capabilities to clean up pictures.
If you hold down shift while changing the volume, you can turn the “pop” sound on/off.The same works with the dock, hold shift to magnify.
If you are using Safari, and a webpage has an RSS feed, you can click on the little icon in the address bar, right before the URL, and drag it to the sidebar in Mail, under the RSS locations. Mail will capture the feed for you and do all the syncing.
Ethan
If you ever just saved a file, and you want Time Machine to back it up right away, there is a way. On the dock, right click the Time Machine icon and click “Back Up Now”.
