With Spaces, Mac users can finally enjoy what Linux users have had for years: virtual desktops. However, Leopards implementation has a neat trick that I’ve yet to see in any Linux distro. You can now perform “window dragging” between the desktops without having to use the multi-pane view (ie. 4 screen view).
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By default, pressing the F4 and F5 keys will make a click sound for each keypress that moves volume down or up, respectively. But holding down the shift key while pressing F4 or F5 suppresses the click. (You can also turn it off permanently in System Preferences, Sound, Sound Effects. By the way, you can also open Sound Preferences panel directly with Option-F5.)
Hold the option key while selection an application in the dock, and all other windows will be hidden automatically (though I found that it doesn’t hide Finder windows all the time).
I just took a picture with my built-in iSight. I then opened the file in Preview to do a quick, simple crop. This is when I noticed new options for the select functionality. I ended up doing the whole cropping in Preview – not bothering to launching Photoshop.
Using the Select – Extract shape you can very easily generate and edit a selection mask similar to photoshops colour select. Only the Preview implementation of it is much more intuitive and thus faster to work with.
While fooling around i figured this out. perhaps im not the first and perhaps this is very well known, but its still pretty cool.
Hold command and click on your stack to directly open the folder that the stack uses to store files.
This way if when you click your stack and you cant see all of the items in it, you can do this trick and hopefully have it easier.
I hope everyone doesn’t already know this one. Quarkomatic mentioned that you can move the Finder’s title icon around and do all kinds of things with it. Did you know that you can do the reverse with the Finder button bar just below it?
You can take a file and add it to the buttons in the button bar, and click on it to open it. If you put a folder there, Finder will go there, or you can put things in it without having to open another Finder window. You can do the same thing with applications, but what’s really neat is if you want to open a file in different applications, instead of going through menus, you can just drag it to whichever of your application buttons you want to open in!
By pressing alt/option + volume up/down/mute you jump directly to the audio settings in the system preferences.
When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop or desktop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen bezel. However, by pressing Shift and Option along with the volume key you want to use, you can break up each large step in the volume control bezel into four parts, instead of having to use the menu bar item or System Preferences for fine-grained control.
I think this is leopard only, if it isn’t please let me know…
