Locking your computer screen
Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
If you want to stay logged in to your computer while you are away from it, but need to prevent others from using it, you can lock the screen. When you return to the computer, type your login name and password to continue working.
Forcing a Document on an App
Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
Sometimes docked apps don’t want to open your document, even though they may be able to, so you have to coax (okay, force) them to give it a try.
Print CD Inserts
Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
You can print a list of the songs in your library or a selected playlist to use as a CD jewel case insert, or simply to have a song or album list.
CD Track Info
Posted on 18. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
If you insert a new CD in your computer and the song names appear in iTunes as “Track 1,” “Track 2,” “Track 3,” and so on, you’ll want to add the real album information before you import the CD. There are two ways to do so.
Text Navigation
Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
This is a basic tip that is extremely powerful if you work a lot with long text. All the basic text navigation functions work one character at a time, such as arrow left and right to move the cursor, with shift and arrow to select text and the backspace and delete buttons to delete text [...]
Pressing F5 in a text field
Posted on 16. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
More Mac 101 tips for new and returning Mac users. If you’re typing in a text field (in Safari, TextEdit, or most any Mac OS X app), you can press F5 while your cursor rests in a particular word to see a list of words that begin with the letters after the last space.
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Extend your battery life.
Posted on 14. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
Laptop productivity on the cold, cruel and often electrical outletless road often depends entirely on how much juice you’ve got left. The screen draws the most power from your battery. When you don’t have access to an outlet, dim your screen to the lowest setting to make your battery last as long as possible.
Keyboard Shortcuts in OS X
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
Here is a list of all the shortcuts in Mac OS X.. Perhaps useful if you switched to the mac or forgotten certain shortcuts.
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