Finer Things in Mac

If you quit Mail with message windows minimized to the Dock, those same messages will reappear in the Dock when you reopen Mail.
Editor’s note: This is something I’ve done with Mail for a while; I use it as a way to remember things I need to do based on correspondence. I thought it was something [...]

In Snow Leopard, when multiple monitors are connected, Spaces now adds a one pixel line between the separate displays. This makes the two desktops easier to distinguish than in Leopard, where no such line existed.

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 [...]

As of at least 10.5 Leopard, Finder can display an application’s version number when selected in Column view. This is handy if you need to check or compare versions of apps without opening them.
I noticed that it doesn’t do it for all apps – I’m guessing the version number needs to be properly coded into the [...]

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.

If you want to rearrange the order of Apple’s menubar icons, you can do so by holding down the Command key while click-and-dragging the icon you wish to move. The only icon that cannot be rearranged is Spotlight’s. By moving the icon out of the menubar and releasing the mouse button, the icon will be [...]

Earlier versions of QuickTime played video in the icon in the dock.
QuickTime X doesn ot do this anymore; it just displays a static thumbnail when you minimize a video.

The default setting for where Mail stores attachments when you open them direct from a message or when you click the ‘Save’ button is ~/Library/Mail Downloads.
At least since Leopard, there’s been a setting where you could pick another folder as the default destination, but judging from personal experience and extensive Googling, many people experienced an [...]

In Snow Leopard, the Copy Color as Text command to copy an 8 bit hex value out of DigitalColor Meter no longer puts quote marks or space characters in the result. Leopard example result: “#D2 7E C7”. Snow Leopard example: #D27EC7. Copying values into graphics applications or CSS properties is now much less tedious.

If you use Disk Utility to perform a Verify Disk or Disk First Aid check on your startup volume, you are now given a message informing you that your computer may be slows or unresponsive and that the progress bar may not update until the process has completed.
This is a great improvement, especially for those [...]