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Small tricks for Mac OS X you should know a switcher
Posted by Venu Thomas on Sep 23, 2009 in Tips
Mac OS X is a system full of small details. Sometimes these do not do anything really useful and sometimes are actions that will eventually make it really necessary for reasons of accessibility and time savings.
I propose a list of little tricks that I find quite interesting:
- As we said Samuel, the ALT key hides some secrets if used in combination with others. For example, pressing ALT and clicking on the icons in the menu bar can view more detailed information on the wifi network to which we connect, select the audio input and output, information on Bluetooth, etc.. On the other hand, if we press ALT and click a Dock icon automatically hides from us the application.
- If you remember, in Leopard could highlight items in a stack , as in Snow Leopard does the same terminal command.
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean yes killall Dock
- If we click on an application icon, which is executed in the Dock and hold the mouse button click we will Expose for all windows of that application and provide options for Exit, Hide, or options such as Open at logon, Maintain Show the Dock or the Finder.
- Mac OS X has always been characterized by the concept of Drag & Drop (drag and drop). To this day I still see as many users to take a photo in iPhoto to Pixelmator, Photoshop or just export it to Mail first and then open with appropriate application. Do not waste time clicking on the file (photo, audio file, video, etc …), dragged into the application window or icon and drop. Time is money.
- If you always liked iTunes mini player who appeared to press the green button on the window of that application and now you miss it in the new version of iTunes, 9, do not worry. As we commented in another entry Apple.Wisecodes, simply press ALT + click on green button will reappear. Remember, the ALT key.
- Just run a simple command in the terminal we can make the list view in stacks behave like that seen in crosslinked.
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES$ killall Dock
- Snow Leopard in the way that we can assign keyboard shortcuts has improved. In Mac OS X Hints shows how to create shortcuts to, unless we use application launcher, open the application you want with a simple keystroke. For that we created a new service application with the Open action.
- In Snow Leopard is now possible to take screenshots of any content that we are playing with DVD Player. In previous versions when we conducted a screen showing in black the player window.
- Try to select text within Safari or any application and drag it to the desktop, you have a file with the selection but if instead of dragging it on the desktop icon for TextEdit, Pages, … we have the text ready to edit, modify, …
Finally, browse into Mac OS X is a good activity for the moments of boredom. Like you find a trick that may become essential for your best user experience. Sure there are many more, a matter of time to discover little tricks.
