Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Did you know you can easily put your mac to sleep by pressing command-option-eject (if you have a dedicated eject key on your keyboard). You’ll need to hold ‘eject’ for a couple of seconds.

How about just sleeping your display? try shift-control-eject!

Of course, if configured in system prefs, you can setup your mac’s power button to put your machine to sleep too.

Got an Apple TV? Put the video-output to sleep by pressing and holding the > (play) button. Note that this doesn’t put the Apple TV to sleep, it just shut’s off the video output.

Got any more sleepy tricks? post a comment!

written by James \\ tags: Apple TV, Mac, Sleep

I found this widget called “CharacterPal”, it has an option that lets you drag the widget to the desktop. All you have to do is start dragging the widget as you press F12. The good thing is that once the option is enabled you don’t need to keep “CharacterPal” open in the dashboard, so you can close it an still drag your favorite widget to the desktop. Hope this is helpful, enjoy!

written by Caballoballo \\ tags: desktop, Leopard, Tiger, widget

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

Heres a cool little hidden Easter egg that works in Tiger and Leopard called “The Blob”.Go to your Applications folder>Utilities folder> open Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool YES
killall Dock
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written by ForEverAndEverAmen \\ tags: easter egg, Leopard, Tiger

I accidentally stumbled on this little trick. While in the dashboard, instead of clicking the little plus in the bottom left corner to get the X for closing a widget, simply mouse over the widget you want to close while holding alt/option and the X will appear.

* note from James, This also works in Tiger, a classic!

written by rattfink138 \\ tags: dashboard, Leopard, widgets

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.  

written by wesjaho \\ tags: safari, scroll

Well, this really isnt a tip, but im just suggesting great software makers. BlockSoft has created 3 really cool apps that i like and that should also work for tiger. Docker lets me edit stacks and the dock, but i haven’t tried this app on tiger. iConiCal lets you edit the iCal icon in the dock to change the colors of it and in tiger you can also make it show the current date. And on Pontoon, you get to face your computer in blackjack!! they also have other cool apps, so check em out!

written by JD in HD \\ tags: blocksoft, Leopard

When you’ve several applications open and you want drag a file to a window, for example putting a JPEG into a Pages layout, and the application’s windows are not in view, Leopard has a solution.

Dragging the file to application’s icon in the dock would try to make the application open the file, but if you hold the space bar down while you drag to the icon, it pops the application’s window to the front and now you can drop that file right into place.

 There is another way of doing this, and one that can be used in Tiger, and that is to drag the file and then use a ’show all application windows’ exposé shortcut (drag corner or key press) and then drag onto the window and hold there.
But now it’s much easier. Of course.

written by WhizzKid