Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Looks like when you take a screen cap / grab in Snow Leopard, you get really useful filenames, instead of just “Picture1.png” etc.

Check out this how-to video (done with the new Snow Leopard screen recording feature of Quicktime!)

(if you are struggling to see the text/screen in this video, please view it on youtube

written by James \\ tags: filenames, OS X, screen capture, screen dump, screen grab, Snow Leopard

Just when Snow Leopard is nearing completion for release, and “Regular” Leopard seemed to be completely documented, I stumbled upon this trick for Macbooks….In a Finder window, go to Columns view. If you have any videos, clicking on one, then placing the mouse pointer over on the Preview column, will make a small Play button appear…You can now use 2-fingers on the trackpad to Scroll-Preview through the video without even hitting the Play button…(You must have “show preview column” enabled in the View Options of the Finder).

Jorge Altamirano

http://backpackingonlittlemoney.wordpress.com/

written by Ethan Zara \\ tags: Finder, macbook, preview, trackpad

So you already know how powerful spotlight is. It searches files, it’s a calculator, a dictionary, it’s just plain cool. I use spotlight every day, I’d rather use it than the dock or finder in most cases! Today I watched a video on the apple.com website on boolean searching in Spotlight.
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written by James \\ tags: boolean, Finder, Spotlight

Hi it`s me again,

I just found out that if you press Shift and apple menu, the force quit option is changing to

force quit +application name which is selected.

So if Firefox is not responding and you press shift+ open apple menu, you will see an option Force Firefox Quit or something like this. You can also try, but i`m sure this was mentioned before, to hit ALT+ Apple Menu and you will see other helpful Commands.

I hope this helped anyone.

Bye

written by udugru \\ tags: Force, Force Quit, menu, Options, Quit

I don`t know if it was mentioned before, but you can easily place a program icon into the finders bar by dragging it to the place where you want it. I hope it helped.

written by udugru \\ tags: Application, Finder, icon, menu

Sarah E-mailed this one in:

To refresh a widget individually, click on the desired widget and hit “apple-R”.

Thanks Sarah…

written by James \\ tags: dashboard, widget, widgets

Just a reminder: Mac OSX 10.5.3 is now available for download via the Apple site, or Software Update.

Apparently, this update primarily addresses issues regarding Airport, Time Machine, Time Capsule, Aperture and Spaces. It also has numerous general fixes throughout.

A full list of this update’s details can be found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1141

written by rockmsockm \\ tags: Mac OSX Leopard, Update

The columns in the Open & Save dialogues never seem to be the right size, so how do you do something about it?

• Well, if you double click the little symbol with two vertical lines at the bottom of the columns in an Open/Save dialogue box, then it will fit that columns items into the view so you can see file names in their entirety.
• If you hold down the option key when you do that it will do it to every column you see.
• And finally, control-clicking or right-clicking brings up this little choice of things to do to the views:

Watch the video demo

written by WhizzKid \\ tags: Finder, open/save