Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools » Finder

Specific Window Screen Grab

Chris Davis — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:33:37 +0000

We all know or may have forgotten how at least to do a screen grab of a particular part of the screen with shift+cmd+4 but, try adding a space to the end of that

Check it out, shift+cmd+4+space = camera icon. Now click on a window or even the dock, tool bar or your icon set on the desktop. Try it now…

Pretty cool huh!

New Screen Capture / Grab Filenames

James — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:43:17 +0000

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

Scroll-Preview in Macbooks

Ethan Zara — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:39:29 +0000

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/

Boolean searches in Spotlight

James — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:56:25 +0000

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.

Say you want to search for a document with “marketing” in the filename, and it’s a presentation. You’ve got several presentations for different years, eg Marketing 2007, Marketing 2008, Marketing 2006, etc. You want to find all the Marketing files that are NOT 2006.. In spotlight type:

marketing NOT 2006

You can use different operators however they must be in CAPS, Eg. NOT, AND, OR.

Perhaps you have “DVD Marketing 2007″ and “Blu-Ray Marketing 2007″. You want the DVD file..

marketing AND DVD

Give it a go!

Close a not responding Application with Shift

udugru — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:26:22 +0000

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

Placing Program Icons into the Finder bar

udugru — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:28:57 +0000

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.

Refresh Widgets

James — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:26:54 +0000

Sarah E-mailed this one in:

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

Thanks Sarah…

Mac OSX 10.5.3 Available Today

rockmsockm — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:05:59 +0000

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

Control your columns in Open & Save

WhizzKid — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:08 +0000

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:

iCal Coverflow

James — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:41:28 +0000

We all know “coverflow” is pretty cool. You may or may not use it often. Previously we’ve covered how to view your system fonts with coverflow, but how about this neat trick to view your iCal events?

In Finder, switch to Cover Flow view mode (View -> As Cover Flow), then press Command-F to place the cursor in the Finder’s search box. To isolate Spotlight matches to just iCal events, enter kind:ical in the search box, then press the Space Bar, and type in the word or words that you’d like to find on those iCal events—Leopard in this example. At this point, you may or may not see matches in the results area!

from Macworld