Apr 16
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
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 14
I have a mac mini. It is cool although you do not get an iSight with it! I hate it! However, your user pic can have special effects.
Pop open Address Book.app and click your user account entry and edit the picture, there should be a swirly icon that you can make an effect with your pic! (NOTE: This may not take effect until a reboot!)
Watch the video demo
written by macman22
\\ tags: avatar, iSight, photo booth
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
Apr 11
Not exactly a power tip… so don’t rip me apart because I know this isn’t high tech. Do you get annoyed by cluttered post-it’s crowding your dashboard? (See below)
A lot of times you can’t read them easily and your eyes just miss them. But I’ve found a work-around. First, open up Text Edit or your favorite word processing app. Type your message there and increase font size as large as you like. I used 100pt in this example. 
Now, press down Shift + Command + 4 to take a selected screenshot of your text. The image will save to the desktop. Then drag the image to the Safari icon in the dock. A new tab will open up with your image in it. Now, take a web clip of the image. It’s that simple. Now you have an easy to read post-it.
written by conorjs1224
\\ tags: dashboard, notes, post-it
Apr 06
For those of you who have lost your Apple Remote or have an older Mac without an IR reciever, the new and improved Front Row included with Leopard now has keyboard commands. You can start Front Row with the icon in the Applications folder, but you can also start it with Command (⌘) + ESC. From there, UP is equivalent to + on the remote and DOWN to - ; LEFT to rewind; RIGHT to fast forward; ENTER to pause/play; and ESC to menu. The keys work exactly the same as the buttons on the remote.
written by BLezcano
\\ tags: frontrow
Apr 04
You can change the volume in iTunes in its minimised window form by hovering the mighty mouse over it and using the scroll ball. This works regardless of whether iTunes is the active window or not.
written by cupofassam
\\ tags: iTunes volume
Apr 03
Make your mac stand out from the rest by customizing your log in screen!
Grab your favorite background image, save it as ‘background.jpg’ and execute the following from Terminal:
sudo cp background.jpg /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
(you need to be in the same directory as the background.jpg for the copy to work. Eg if it’s on your desktop then “cd ~/Desktop” to change to that directory first)
source: lifehacker.com.au
written by James
