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Dictionary has been part of Mac OS X since 10.4 and there is a feature that not many Mac users know about. When you are in any of Cocoa (Mac native) applications you can hover your mouse above a word and press Ctrl-Cmd-D on your keyboard. You will get the Dictionary description for that word. Just move your mouse over to any other word and the Dictionary description for that word is displayed instantly. You don’t need to have the Dictionary open at all.
A few examples where this works are; Safari, Mail.app, MacJournal, TextEdit, Text Wrangler, Comic Life, iWeb, etc. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with any of the Mozilla applications, including Firefox, Camino and Flock. Invert screen Another function that not many Mac users know is “Invert screen”. Just press Ctrl-Option-Cmd-8 on your keyboard and see your Mac invert its colours. One could ask – Why would you ever want to do this? It comes very handy when your eyes are tired and some genius has been experimenting with background and text colours on his or her website MySpace anyone?
It is also irreplaceable tool in photography, during the post production editing. If you have a large, bright picture and you are trying to locate any dark spots that you need to clone out (e.g.
Sensor dust, birds in the sky, etc.) it gets really tough on your eyes after a few minutes. Reverse colours and look for bright spots on the dark background – they stand out like Christmas lights at night. It would be funny if you did this in Apple store and watched the salesperson freaking out. Get 5 GB of free cloud storage with a a bonus 500 MB if you, so you can safely back-up, share and synchronise your documents, photos, videos, music Slow motion When you want to minimise a window, simply click on the yellow button in the top left corner. The window quickly goes down to the right end of your dock using either scaled or genie effect. But if you hold down the shift key while clicking the window will minimise in slow motion, approximately five times slower than the normal speed. Text clipping I love telling this to my friends Windows users.
I ask them how would they save a piece of text from the document they are viewing at the moment, for example a web page. Their answer is usually something like: “Oh, easy. You select the text, right click and copy. Then you go to the desktop, right click and select New Text file, give the file some name and click away.
Now you double click the file to open it, paste the text in there and save it. Simple, isn’t it?” Then I show them how to do it on Mac. I select the text and drag it to the desktop and that’s it.
Dropped jaws everywhere. If you want to include this text somewhere, say in an email, you simply drag the file into your composed email. Simple as that. Screen capturing This is my favourite of the Mac goodies. There are few ways to capture the screen on Mac.
Firstly, you can capture the whole screen. Simply press Cmd-Shift-3 on your keyboard and the screen will be captured in a PNG file and saved on your desktop as something like Picture 1.png. As of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) this file is named Screenshot-.png. You can also capture a selection, just press Cmd-Shift-4 on your keyboard and you will see a small cross hair selector on your screen. Select the area you want to capture and let go, the file will be saved on your desktop, again something like Picture 1.png.
As of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) you also get the infomration on the picture size (in pixels) which changes as you move the crosshair. And finally you can capture the active window. Simply follow the steps above and once you see the cross hair, press the space bar and you will get a camera icon. Hover the camera above any window and the window will get the gray overlay indicating it’s in hot-spot. You can even capture the window that is in the background, as long as a part of it visible and allows you enough room to hover the camera icon over it. Click on it and the window will be captured.
Again, the file will be safely placed on your desktop as good guess, Screenshot-.png However, if you’d like to capture the screen (or part of it) to the clipboard rather than to desktop, simply hold the Control key down while capturing, i.e. This is very handy when you need to paste it straight into an email or any other document. Very useful imoTarget disk Mode: How to use FireWire target disk mode Important: Unplug all other FireWire devices from both computers prior to using FireWire target disk mode. Do not plug in any FireWire devices until after you have disconnected the two computers from each other, or have stopped using target disk mode. Tip: If you will be transferring FileVault-protected home directories (Mac OS X 10.3 or later only), log in as the FileVault-protected user and temporarily turn off FileVault. After transferring home directory contents to the target computer, enable FileVault protection again if desired.
To use FireWire target disk mode Make sure that the target computer is turned off. If you are using a PowerBook or iBook as the target computer, you should also plug in its AC power adapter. Use a FireWire cable (6-pin to 6-pin) to connect the target computer to a host computer. The host computer does not need to be turned off. Start up the target computer and immediately press and hold down the T key until the FireWire icon appears.
The hard disk of the target computer should become available to the host computer and will likely appear on desktop. (If the target computer is running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you can also open System Preferences, choose Startup Disk, and click Target Disk Mode. Then restart the computer and it will start up in Target Disk Mode.) When you are finished copying files, drag the target computer’s hard disk icon to the Trash or select Put Away from the File menu (Mac OS 9) or Eject from the File menu (Mac OS X).
Press the target computer’s power button to turn it off. Unplug the FireWire cable.
A short evaluation (yes, I use Windows): Dictionary: – Really cool feature (my jaw just dropped) Invert screen: – Why on earth would you wanna do that? Slow motion: – Why on earth would you wanna do that? Text clipping directly to a file on the desktop: – Cool feature (no jaw-dropping, though) Screen capturing: – Cmd-Shift-3?!? In Windows you just press “Print Screen” on the keyboard, how’s that for a cool feature? – Cmd-Shift-4 and then SPACE to capture window? Do you have to hurl a dead goat over your left shoulder as well?
In windows you just press ALT+”Print Screen” to capture the active window The secret key-combination CMD-SHIFT-3 reminds me of the early versions of WordPerfect (no, thats not a compliment:). TOTAL SCORE ON THE MAC vs. PC SCALE: 2/5. LBE says. RE: Erik Jon Sloth Invert screen: -For use in bright light or if its sunny outdoor to read txt clearer Screen capturing: – Windows needs you to paste the capturered screen into Paint, photoshop etc and save to req.
File type OSX saves the file automatically to your desktop as the file type you set it to Do you prefer it to be complicated? And finally Slow Motion: -Well if your 3D card renders your windows why not show it off?
Its not the default minimise mode but windows doesn’t exactly use the genie or scale effect when minimising. Adrian Bool says. To copy text and (some) pics from any webpage to another app, all you have to do is highlight the text (and pic) and drag (by the text) to any app in the dock that will show allowance, IE, drag to the dock and textedit and stickies and mail will each grey to show that it is eligible. Stickies will show the text only and you have to drag the graphics in separately, same in mail. Dragging to text edit in the dock gives you the pics and text and then you can save with pics as rtfd.
Btw, love the invert tip and am using it now. To quickly and easily select a certain word but not any surrounding space or punctuation, double-click on it. It’s also possible to select a paragraph in the same manner by triple-clicking on it. Additionally, you can extend the selection by keeping the mouse button pressed after pressing it for the last time (the second and third time for words and paragraphs respectively). To move to the beginning or end of a line of text, press command-left or command-right respectively. The icon to the left the window title represents the file or folder which that window represents as a Finder object.
For example, you can drag this icon into a folder. To quickly navigate to a folder which is open in Finder when selecting a file or folder using a file or folder selection dialogue, drag the folder onto the dialogue.
To quickly see the definition of any word, position the cursor over it and press command-control-D. Additional screen shot features: Command-Shift-4 + spacebar: This allows you to capture a single window, dropdown menu, or what-have-you.
The file retains the opacity of the original object (drop downs are semi transparent, windows are transparent in the corners) don’t want to get screenshots all over your desktop? Then get screenshots put into your clipboard instead! Control-command-shift-3: full screen capture control-command-shift-4: crosshair selection control-command-shift-4 + spacebar: window/menu. Jethro says. These are really cool tips. I recently bought a Macbook and loves it. But I’m having real trouble doing work related tasks on it, mostly b/c I can’t find menu mneumonics (those little underlines in the menubar you see in Windows).
For example in MS Office Windows versions, you can press Alt-F, which drops down the file menu, the bottom of which lists the most recent files you opened. So you’d do say, Alt-F, 1 for the last file you opened. Another example would be in Excel you do Alt-D, F, F for autofilter.
(something anyone in Finance/Consulting might do 100+ times a day). To do the same AutoFilter in Mac version of Excel, I’d have to do 1: Cmd-F2 to gain focus on menu 2: press D for “Data” menu item. 3: Press F, 4: right Arrow to get to “AutoFilter”, then Enter is there a faster way? The above keyboard combo is so cumbersome that I might as well use the mouse. Yes you can try to assign your own keyboard shortcuts but there are just too many of these Keyboard combos to assign.for example Alt-DS for sort, Alt IND to define name rangesetc advices would be appreciated.
Just dont say use the mouse!! Well, in windows if you want to save a webpage, you do save as and save it. As simple as that. And if you want to include it in an email, just drag and drop it the same way. I have to be honest, I bought a mac to give it a try and it is not any better than a pc.
It is good, very good, looks good. But it closes doors to so many things that you can only do on pc’s. I am sure on the other hand you can do a lot of things on a mac you can’t do on a pc but Well I am not gonna take the mac back to the apple store even though I have to say, yes i like it but I wanna do use all the softwares that never seem to be compatible with a mac 🙁. Anton says. I JUST RECENTLY SWITCHED FROM P.C. TO MAC, AND I LOVE IT.
I NOW HAVE A SAYING! ONCE Y0U GO MAC THEIR IS NO GOING BACK. I SPENT THE BIG BUCKS AND BOUGHT THE MAC PRO WITH THE INTEL QUAD 3 GHZ, 2 GIGS OF RAM FOR NOW BUT I WILL BE UPGRADING. I ALSO TREATED MYSELF TO A HIGHT DEF 23 INCH APPLE MONITOR. THEN I BOUGHT A BASIC MAC BOOK FOR THE ROAD ALTHOUGH I MUST ADMIT I THINK I AM GOING TO GO AND GET THE MAC PRO TO REPLACE THE MAC BOOK. NOT THAT I DON’T LIKE THE MAC BOOK. I HAVE ONLY HAD MY MAC’S FOR TWO AND A HALF MONTHS.
I WAS WITH MICRO-CRAP FOR 15 YEARS AND JUST GOT SICK OF FIXING THEM, REBOOTING, REINSTALLING THE OS AND LOOSING EVERYTHING I HAD NOT RECENTLY BACKED UP. I JUST COULD NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. NOW I WATCH THE VISTA THREADS SINCE MICRO-CRAP ULTIMATE DISASTER HAS COME OUT AND SURE ENOUGH THE COMPLAINT THREADS ARE POPING UP LEFT AND RIGHT. ANYWAY ABOUT THIS PAGE I FOUND, THANK YOU TO THE AUTHOR WHO WROTE ABOUT THE COOL STUFF. I KNOW THEIR IS ALOT MORE FOR ME TO LEARN.
WHEN I SPENT AROUND TEN GRAND AT THE APPLE STORE, THEY SAID I WOULD NEED CLASSES TO LEARN THE TIGER OS. TO I BOUGHT THE STORE MEMBERSHIP. WELL LONG STORY SHORT, I AM A COMPUTER NERD AND HALF AND IN ABOUT THREE DAYS I HAD THE BASICS OF THE TIGER OS DOWN AND NOW IT IS OVER TWO MONTHS LATER AND I AM FINALIZING FINISHING LEARNING THE REST OF IT, SUCH AS IMOVIE HD AND IDVD. I AM PRETTY MUCH A SELF LEARNER. THEIR IS ONE THING I CAN’T FIGURE OUT THOUGH, A PROGRAM CALLED OMNI OUTLINER. I HAVE READ UP ON IT ON APPLE’S HOME PAGE AND HAVE SORT OF A CLUE BUT I AM STILL LOST AS TO WHAT IT IS REALLY FOR.
I HAVE BOOK MARKED THIS PAGE, SO I COME BACK IN A FEW DAYS TO SEE IF ANYONE HAS POSTED. AND FOR THE COOL STUFF I LEARNED TODAY. THANKS A MILLION. Wow these are intresting tips!! That saying:ounce you go mac their is no going back” is completely false – I built a computer for 1,500 dollars that is equivalent in power to a 3,500 dollar iMac and I have Windows XP, OS X 10.4.8 and Vista RTM Ultimate (64bit) all installed nativly and im very happy to switch around. I go into mac for basic internet searching and listening to music, I go into XP for advanced internet research that requires downloading files and gaming, I use vista for everything I use mac for and also for testing.
I have to say my favorite os is still XP. There is not a single good game you can put on a mac and im not used to many of it features and i could work faster in xp. You just saved me hours of confusion and frustration.
Working in Photoshop I must have hit the wrong combo of buttons and Poof I was in Zoom mode with no Clue on earth how I got there. Searching and reading your tips I figured out that all was not lost and a simple Scroll would put my Mac back right with the world. You know there aren’t alot of sites that come up when you enter “Desktop Zoom stuck” in Google! You’ve saved the day and for that I am ever greatful. Will link and check back for more tips often and tell my newly Mac converted friends about your site as well! Thanks again Oh, and tell that windows guy, that he really has no clue what he is missing.
I used windows previously also, but was smart enough to see the error of my ways =) AB. says. Great trick but, why nobody on earth read the user’s manual that comes with the mac? I mean, when you First turned on your brand new mac, you just stay looking on it while it configures? I read the manual, it took me about 15 minutes and i learned all this things so I’m using this tricks since the very first minute of using it! I was a Windows user, i switch yo mac os and i WILL NEVER GO BACK, this Os is so much better!
About the user’s manual, i think there in the USA the manual doesnt include this tricks isnt it? I live in south america and all these trick are in the manual. Well I think I know every trick you’ve posted on here, so if anyone knows another please type it here!!! 😀 Sorry the bad english but I’m Chilean, and here in Chile we speak spanish! You could try posting in spanish to evaluate your spelling 😀.
says. DOES MAC HAVE A SCREEN TEXT GRABBER UTILITY??
In a finder window (list view), you have a list of files with a creation or modification date. Does anyone know a way to copy the file name and the rest of the info given in the columns? I need to to be editable text, not just an image.
There are several applications (text grabbers) able to do it in Windows, but I found none for the Mac. Suggestions VERY appreciated, thanks. By the way, I tried using windows though Parallel Desktop, but then I find out that Windos gives me a different (and wrong) modification time!!!. benbo says.
At the replies to MacMonkey’s statement about cut and paste: At glibberish (“However, given how scattered I get, I’m glad Cut doesn’t work–too risky. “) and Craig Phillips (“Probably because its file desctructive if you don’t paste and log out or suffer a BSD on Windows and that doesn’t jibe well with the Mac philosophy (”like where’d my file go dude”), you apparently don’t know how Windows does cut and paste in explorer.
It’s not nearly as dangerous as you make it out to be. When you cut a file, the file doesn’t actually go away; it just gets marked so that when and if you paste it, Windows moves instead of copies it. So if you forget about it and copy something else to the clipboard, or if the system goes down, your files will remain in their original location. This is a.little. inelegant because it works a little differently than other places where you can cut and paste (where cutting removes it immediately), but I think the utility of being able to more easily move files around far outweighs that. Finally, I like the reply from Michiel (“Am I missing something here? Afaik it IS possible to copy & paste a file within the finder without dragging”) who apparently doesn’t know the difference between ‘copy’ and ‘cut’.
I have the same question that KP said ages ago. And I don’t think it’s been answered yet but sorry if it was. “I like the invert color feature, but on my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, I only get the inverted colors for a split second, then it goes to inverted greyscale. Is there a system preference or something?” I have the same problem except that I own a different Mac. I was unable to find the exact name of the model (although honestly I only looked for about a minute) so here’s a picture: Mine is the Mac on the top left with the swivel screen and the round speakers on both sides. @jesus christ – Stop being a retard I’ve been using a PC since the 286 came out and have just switched to Mac.
There is no comparison between a PC and a Mac. Mac wins hands down. Build quality is second to none, design is second to none, but most importantly, it’s intuitive.
I’ll never go back to a PC for my personal computing. Unfortunately I’m stuck with it for work. Yeah, I’m running Win7 under Fusion, but only because I need to run a native app when I work from home.
Thanks for the tips – they’re great. I keep finding new stuff to do all the time. Now back to drool at my gorgeous 27 iMac. shebang says. Okay, this is totally bias. First, on a windows 7, text is the only thing you can’t drag and drop on a folder/desktop. If you want to do it, just go Right click, n-t, drag, and Ctrl-S and done!
And also, screen invert is totally avaible on Windows Magnifier. If you want to screen capture on a windows 7, go Start-S and just drag. And whole screen capture IS ONLY ONE BUTTON ON A WINDOWS 7: PRT-SCRN button! There are many WIndows 7 features that many users don’t know about, like Alt-Tab, Switch to classic view, Start-Tab(SUPER AWESOME). (just for comparison).
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On your new Mac:. Open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Click Continue. When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer from a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk.
Click Continue. On your old Mac: If you started your old Mac in target disk mode or are migrating from a Time Machine backup, skip these four steps. Open Migration Assistant. Click Continue. When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer to another Mac. Click Continue.
On your new Mac:. When asked to select a Mac, Time Machine backup, or other startup disk, click the appropriate icon.
Click Continue. You might see a security code. On your old Mac: If you started your old Mac in target disk mode or are migrating from a Time Machine backup, skip these two steps. If you see a security code, make sure that it's the same code as on your new Mac. Click Continue. On your new Mac:. You should see a list of backups organized by date and time.
Choose the backup that you want to use. Click Continue. Continuing on your new Mac:.
Select the information to transfer. Click Continue to start the transfer. If you have a lot of content, the transfer might take several hours to finish.
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