Mac OS X Hints: Spring Load Your Dock

May 5th, 2008

This is a great hint that can help make your workflow go a bit more smoothly. I especially like it when I’m uploading items via ftp. After you do the Terminal command, if you hover over a dock icon while dragging a file:
. . . the item will open and be shown. So if you [...]

OS X Keyboard Trick of the Day

April 15th, 2008

Ok, so this is probably not new to most of you, but I just found out that “Cmd + ~” will switch between windows of an application.
Now, I’ve been using “Cmd + Tab” forever, both on Window’s boxes and on the Mac. In fact, I use Proteron’s “LiteSwitch X” because it beefs up the “Cmd+Tab” [...]

The Goldilocks of Volume Control on OS X Leopard

February 19th, 2008

I came across this great hint on MacOSXHints.com that I thought I’d share with any of you fellow Leopard users:

When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen [...]