Finer Things in Mac

Applications can remember which layout you picked and switch to it automatically for you.

I just finished installing WPtouch, an impressive WordPress plugin that serves an optimized version of a site to mobile devices. I enabled most features of the site, including Disqus-powered comments and the submission form. The unique author is displayed on every post, and you have access to all tags, categories, and pages from the top [...]

While in Dock-Exposé, clicking on other Dock applications will show an Exposé view of that app’s windows, including any that are minimized (you can either click and hold on a Dock icon to enter this view, or press Tab while in Exposé All Windows mode to cycle through apps as well). Pressing Command+Tab will allow [...]

The Finer Things sites are beginning a transition to WordPress, and /Mac is first in line on Saturday night. The site will remain available at finermac.tumblr.com during the move, and the main URL will redirect during the transition. Most links will probably not work however, but I don’t think this will take very long.
Update: The [...]

As you can see, the context menu on the Dock blurs out the text behind it, much like Vista window management.

If you’re ever looking through a website that you found from a Google search, but are having a hard time finding the relevant part of the page, try this:

Perform a Google search in the Safari toolbar.
Click a link in the results page.
Press Command+G.

Voilá! With one command Safari will find the first word of your search [...]

Tweetie for Mac lets you switch between the Timeline, Replies, Direct Messages, and Search panels of your account with Command-1, -2, -3, and -4, relatively speaking.
If you use more than one Twitter account in Tweetie, you can switch between them by using Command-Shift-Up/Down arrows. This means you can switch between any account, and any panel [...]

If you have a folder that is named “Round 1”, and you Option + Drag/Drop to duplicate it, the new folder will automatically be named “Round 2”.  Do it again and you’ll have “Round 3”.
Editor’s note: Can anyone test this in pre-Snow-Leopard versions of Mac OS X? I’m not sure whether this is exclusive to [...]

If you click the dropdown menu next to a phone number in Mail, you can not only make a contact from it, you can also have it fill the screen by selecting “Large Type”.

This is useful if you need to call said number but won’t be right next to your Mac to do it.

Snow Leopard now displays visual feedback when changing keyboard language layouts.