August 2010
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Quickly use Exposé on a single app
When you click and hold on a Dock icon in 10.6 Snow Leopard, other apps hide temporarily and that app goes into Exposé, showing you just its windows. You can also use the Exposé key on your keyboard, then press Tab to cycle through apps like this one-by-one, or click on an app in the Dock while in Exposé.
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Keyboard Viewer will not display passwords
Keyboard Viewer, accessible from the Keyboard & Character Viewer menu bar utility, won’t visualise the letters you type when using your Mac’s physical keyboard to enter a password.
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iChat Video Conference gestures
When in a video chat you can use the zoom in gesture (pinch-outwards) on a MacBook’s trackpad, a Magic Mouse, or Magic Trackpad to make the video fullscreen, and zoom out gesture (pinch-inwards) to return the video chat to window mode.
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Show hidden files in Snow Leopard's Open/Save...
In 10.6 Snow Leopard you can temporarily show hidden files within open/save dialog boxes by hitting “Command + Shift + .”
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Delete unused iOS device backups to reclaim space... →
via Shawn Blanc, who deleted a few and recovered over 3GB of space. iTunes creates a new, separate backup every time you restore your device from scratch (i.e., you choose not to “restore from backup”).