In OS X 10.5 Apple has brought the iPod/iPhone style Cover Flow navigation system to Finder. When flipping through pictures, documents, or tunes, this can be a highly efficient way to navigate through a series of files.
Sometimes MightyQ needs to be online and chatting with fellow programmers without being visible to everybody. Why? Because if I see him online, I am chatting with him and slowly him down. In the Leopard version of iChat, you now can be online but invisible to our those on your buddy list.
In OS X 10.5, if you drag an file over an application icon and hit the space bar, the app will open for you. This makes drag-and-drop super easy. Here are a few screenshots to show how easy it is to use Leopard’s Spring Loaded Dock.
Included in Leopard’s Dictionary and Thesaurus is now the ability to search the wikipedia online database and through Apple terminology. Here are some examples.
By default, Mac OS X skips certain form fields when using the tab key. For example, when entering an address in a web form, the country field may be a pull-down menu. Heavy-duty tab users will have a rough time with this since tabbing through a form bypasses the use of pointing devices and makes life easier. However, if you know where to look in the system preferences, this is an easy setting to change.
Breadcrumb Navigation is a navigation technique used within an interface to give the user a sense of where they are located in a structure. Within a file navigation system, breadcrumbs give the user direct feedback into where the current working location is. This tutorial shows how to enable and use this navigation tool.
The version of iChat that comes with Leopard now allows for tabbed chat windows. Instead of having a seperate window open for every chat conversation, you can have one window with a tab for each buddy. This popular feature of Adium is a welcomed addition to iChat.
A basic wordprocessing function is to sort tables and text. This tutorial shows how to sort using iWork’s Pages application. Screenshots and step-by-step directions included.
With the new version of Safari in Leopard, you can turn at section of a web page into a dashboard widget. Using this new feature in OS X 10.5, I will show you how to make a digg dashboard widget in 15 seconds.
Installing OS X from a DMG file can be difficult. With leopard testing and development, many people are having troubles installing from the supplied binary. Here is how it can be accomplished.
UserDumps are created when a program crashes. These large files contain information to help you (and Microsoft) debug what went wrong. However, these files are massive and can eat up a large amount of hard drive space very quickly. For example, on my system I restored almost 14 gigs of space. Read on for the details…
IE7 can be set to play a sound each time a feed is discovered on a web page. This can be quite useful to some and annoying to others depending on their preference. Here’s how to configure Internet Explorer 7’s sound for RSS feed discovery.
1...484485486...528Page 485 of 528
error: Content is protected !!
