About This Mac Quicktips

Create a Folder Containing Your Current Selection

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:19:27 -0600

finermac:

Create a folder containing your current selection by choosing File > New Folder with Selection or by pressing Control-Command-N (⌃⌘N).

Handy as hell.

mrgan: OS X Lion will be available on the Mac App Store...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:27:46 -0600

mrgan:

OS X Lion will be available on the Mac App Store tomorrow. This image illustrates a feature worth at least $29. Make sure you edit Mail’s toolbar and drag that button in.

It does the right thing - if there’s a folder called Archive, it puts the email there; if not, it creates the folder first.

Enjoy it!

Six Unexpected Uses for the Application Switcher

Tue, 17 May 2011 08:54:46 -0600

Six Unexpected Uses for the Application Switcher:

I didn’t know about half of these.

"Tip: save a copy of your Mac’s Apple System Profiler report to your Dropbox folder. If your..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:32:10 -0600

“Tip: save a copy of your Mac’s Apple System Profiler report to your Dropbox folder. If your Mac dies you’ll have exactly what you lost.”

- danielpunkass

The powerful, mystical Spotlight. On steroids.

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:15:50 -0600

The powerful, mystical Spotlight. On steroids.

minimalmac: This just in from the Department of Who Knew? You...

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:33 -0600

minimalmac:

This just in from the Department of Who Knew? You can resize multiple point sizes of text in Mac OS X by using mathematical equivalents in that little box just under “Size”. In other words, if you select multiple items of different sizes and want to triple the size of all, just type *3 (times 3) and hit return. Other functions ( / divide, + add, – subtract) work as well.

Your’re welcome.

(via The Mariner Software Blog)

finermac: Finder allows you to specify a default search...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:57:00 -0600

finermac:

Finder allows you to specify a default search location when using the built-in search tool at the top right of any Finder window. Your choices are “Search This Mac” (the default, which seems to annoy most users), “Search the Current Folder” (which is what I’ve always wanted), and the verbose “Use the Previous Search Scope.” This option is under Finder > Preferences > Advanced, and I believe it arrived in 10.6 Snow Leopard.

finermac: Mail Tip: When using data detectors (introduced in...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:24:39 -0600

finermac:

Mail Tip: When using data detectors (introduced in 10.5 Leopard) to create iCal appointments from Mail messages, highlight some text first in order to have it automatically inserted as a note in your new event.

seoulbrother: The Valet - A practical carbon fibre car mount...

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:38:42 -0600

seoulbrother:

The Valet - A practical carbon fibre car mount for iPad that will revolutionize the way you die in a car crash.

My backup plan: Dan Frakes | Storage & Backup | Macworld

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:34:07 -0600

My backup plan: Dan Frakes | Storage & Backup | Macworld:

“The end result of this diversified backup plan is that at any given time, I’ve got a complete clone of each of my drives that’s never more than 24 hours old, Time Machine backups of modified files for each hour of that day, and both onsite and cloud versions of all the documents I’m actively working on. And those in-progress articles are accessible from any of my Macs, as well as from my iOS devices.”

"If you’ve installed Find My iPhone on your iPhone, iPod or iPad take a look at the map on its icon...."

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:53:24 -0600

“If you’ve installed Find My iPhone on your iPhone, iPod or iPad take a look at the map on its icon. It seems to be indicating an iPhone has been located in New York City. Strange, considering Apple’s spiritual and physical home is in Cupertino, on the other side of the US. So, what’s in NYC? Steve Jobs’ Manhattan apartment perhaps? There’s a good chance. Until recently Jobs owned the only duplex apartment in the iconic San Remo building, until he sold it to U2’s Bono for $15 million.”

- Apple icon secrets: hidden meanings hiding in plain sight | Electricpig

I put it there because it looked terrible in San Francisco. The iPhone was originally in Africa, but a design review moved it to NYC. FACT.

(via implodr)

Panic Blog » 15 Secrets of Transmit 4

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:07:05 -0600

Panic Blog » 15 Secrets of Transmit 4:

Transmit 4. It’s easy to use, but there’s a whole lot under the surface. And while we try to design apps for the majority, sometimes we throw in some power user features for the pros. As the Finnish always say, “always add a few extra blood dumplings when cooking mykyrokka for a tonttu-ukko!”

"As you’re typing a long word, hit the escape key. A popup window will appear with a list of..."

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:47:12 -0600

“As you’re typing a long word, hit the escape key. A popup window will appear with a list of guesses. Use the arrow keys to find the word you want and hit enter to select. To shorten the list, keep typing. To abandon the list entirely, hit escape again to put it away.”

- Mac 101: Autocomplete words in TextEdit Great tip for using the included TextEdit in Mac OS X.

CMD-Delete in Preview

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:36:47 -0600

When viewing a document (PDF, image, etc.) in Preview.app, pressing CMD-Delete will throw the current document into the trash.

A very handy way to quickly rid yourself of a photo or PDF that you downloaded that isn’t what you thought it should be.

Save Space - Zip it Up

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:03:18 -0600

stevenf:

This terminal command will turn every file in the current directory into a zip file of itself (removing the original file):
for item in *; do zip -m "${item}.zip" "${item}"; done
I recently used it to shave 20 GB off a collection of uncompressed disk images.

Back to the Desktop

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:46:00 -0600

Quite honestly the shortcut key I use the most throughout my day is when presented with a ‘Save’ dialogue box (i.e. when you go to save your Photoshop, Word, etc. document for the first time)

Simply pressing Command-D will change the currently selected directory to your Desktop. Saving files to the desktop (temporarily!) makes it easy to use, particularly if you’re going to be emailing, Twittering or Facebooking an image or document right away and not really saving it for long term use.

Command-D, enter a file name, Return and you’re done.

The Command key is the one next to your spacebar that has the word “Command” on it, or as is the case on earlier Mac keyboards, has the Apple logo.

(As an aside, ever wonder why that symbol is called “Command?” It’s a symbol for an interesting feature in a Swedish campground.)

8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not) Notice in iOS 4

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:25:38 -0600

8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not) Notice in iOS 4:

Every time Apple releases a new OS update, be it on the Mac or iPhone, there’s a bucketload of smaller - lesser-spotted - changes that appear in the system. iOS 4 very much continues this trend, so whilst you’re busy perusing the new update today here’s 8 little changes you may (or may not) spot.

Taking a Screenshot on iPhone/iPad/iOS Devices

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:20:42 -0600

Let’s say you want to take a screenshot of the latest app you are running on your iPhone or iPad (maybe to show off a high score in Carcassonne - great game btw!) to send to a friend or upload to your blog. Here’s how:

Press the ‘Home’ button and at the same time press the ‘On/Off’ button. No need to hold them down for very long (1 second is enough).
The screen should flash white briefly.
Now startup the Photos app
Inside the ‘Saved Photos’ album you should see your screenshot waiting for you.

Now you can email it to yourself or the next time you sync with iTunes it will pull the screenshot into iPhoto (or whatever photo application you are using on your Mac).

WANT: Leather iPad Case with a 100 year warranty.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:53:20 -0600

WANT: Leather iPad Case with a 100 year warranty.

Moving Apps Around

Mon, 31 May 2010 22:39:14 -0600

In order to move apps around your iPhone/iPad screen, you just have to press and hold on any app for 2 seconds (try not to move your finger) until the apps start shaking and some of them (non-Apple apps) get a little ‘X’ in the top left corner - you can stop pressing now:

Now press and hold on on the app you want to move and slide it to the location you want the app to be. Other apps will slide out of the way as you slide the app around.

Once the app is where you want it to be, press the Home button to lock the apps back into location.