Apr 17
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
Apr 16
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
written by James
\\ tags: Coverflow, Finder, ical
Apr 12
I was just fooling around with the menubar in Finder when I found that if you press the ‘option’ key you get some different options. Try it. Click on the Apple (top left) to show the menu, then press “option”. Notice some items change? Try it on the other menu’s (file, edit, etc).
One cool trick, if you click the apple menu, then press option you will notice the dots disappear from some items. If you click the ‘shutdown’ menu item the machine will shutdown without that pesky confirmation message. Neat!
written by James
\\ tags: Finder, Leopard, menus
Feb 24
I don’t know whether this trick has already been mentioned:
In the Finder, in List view, you can navigate using the up/down arrow keys. Now that’s well known. If the selection highlights a folder, pressing the right arrow key expands the folder (same as clicking on the “open” triangle symbol on the left side of the folders name).
Pressing the left arrow key collapses the folder again. If the selection highlights a document in an expanded folder, pressing the left arrow key moves the selection up to the containing folder, which then can be collapsed by pressing the left arrow key a 2nd time.
written by svenson
\\ tags: Finder, keyboard, Leopard, Tiger
Feb 18
Anyone experiencing full functioning widgets in Finder (Dashboard not activated!)? I do. One day was using widgets and repositioning them and suddenly found one shifted to the Finder and has there been ever since – more followed. And they’re fully functioning.
How did I do it? Don’t know, simply clicked on it, held mouse down and moved them. Can’t get rid of them now because even eliminating them from Dashboard still keeps them in the Finder (OS 10.5.1). Had to drag them to the bottom of the screen out of sight. Has anyone any suggestions or explanation. Even Apple Support can’t seem to help.
written by iqbe
\\ tags: widgets
Feb 12
Apple has released their largest software update to date: the highly anticipated version 10.5.2 of Leopard. The update addresses a sprawling variety of issues, including general operating system fixes, stability issues, compatibility adjustments and security enhancements. In other words, it is–as MacDailyNews puts it–the “mother of all Mac OS X updates.”
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written by rockmsockm
\\ tags: 10.5.2, Leopard, Mac OS X, Software Update, Update
Feb 05
If you hit alt/option + command + space (ignore the plusses) it brings up a search in a finder window with all of the contents of the Mac.
written by Chuck Norris
\\ tags: Finder
Jan 21
Maybe this is something widely known but I stumbled upon it just recently:
When you activate Expose in Application windows mode (F10) you can use Tab to cycle through all apps’ application windows in current space.
written by emircajic
\\ tags: expose, Leopard
