Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Okay so a couple weeks ago, I told you a way to get huge stickies. Okay so you made a sticky… whatever it is. It was really important, like… make sure to make reservations for friday night’s dinner. And then… you never open dashboard. It’s handy, you love it… but you don’t necessarily use dashboard every day. That’s why… there’s the Terminal!
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written by conorjs1224 \\ tags: Stickies

I accidentally came across this when I meant to hit Shift+F5 for filling in Photoshop. To activate VoiceOver, hit command+F5. You can go into System Preferences, Universal Access, Open VoiceOver Utility to customize.

written by oomonkeypirateoo \\ tags: Short cuts, system preferences, voiceover

Like most tricks, I stumbled upon this by accident. If you just want to reply or forward a selected portion of an email in Mail, just drag to highlight the portion of the email and click reply or forward. Comes in handy for those long threads.
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written by rattfink138 \\ tags: email, mail

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:

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

Th three new visualisers have a few tricks up their sleeves.

• LATHE: Press F to see the current frame rate
• STIX: Press F to see the current frame rate
  Press the Up Arrow to add a second stick, and the Down Arrow cycles through available speeds
• JELLY: Press F to see the current frame rate
  Press the Up or Down Arrow to cycle between seven different jelly styles, and press M to lock it, and again to unlock it.
  Press and hold 1 or 2, and the center of the current jelly will move farther away or much closer to your viewpoint. Press and hold any combination of 8, 9, and 0 (zero), and you’ll add an extra “glow” to certain areas of the jelly. Press and hold all three for some serious psychedelia.

written by WhizzKid \\ tags: itunes, quartz, visualisers

1. Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
2. Type this into terminal (it allows you to see networked computers that can be controlled):
   defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1
3. Now, to add lots of buttons that are also found in Apple Remote Desktop, type this as one line into terminal:

   defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \
   'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \
   '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,
   GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

   
   
4. Now restart screen sharing to see the buttons

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written by WhizzKid \\ tags: hacks, Leopard, screen sharing

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.

How do I know all of these? If you don’t have a fast broadband connection, you tend to push a lot buttons. LOL!

Got any more sleepy tricks? post a comment!

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

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