Finer Things in Mac | Tag Archive

Boot Camp: Easily restart into Windows without changing your Startup disk

03. Mar, 2010 2 Comments

No clunky trip to System Preferences, no holding the Option key. A simple utility can let you get in and out of Windows with no fuss.

3rd-Party Apps

Boot Camp, featured

Restore your last browsing session in Safari

01. Mar, 2010 8 Comments

It isn’t automatic session restore, but Safari can still re-open the tabs you had open the last time you quit it.

Safari

featured, Safari

Ink warnings can be displayed in the print dialog

19. Jan, 2010 3 Comments

Many color cartridges have died… to bring you black ink. Hopefully Snow Leopard’s new ink warnings can help avoid that.

Leopard, Snow Leopard

dialogs, featured, ink, printers, UI

Address Book: Automatically find, merge duplicates

08. Jan, 2010 4 Comments

Don’t blow an afternoon manually deleting or merging duplicate contacts. Make your Mac do the work for you.

Apple apps

Address Book, featured

iChat: Use multi-touch to take video chats full screen

08. Dec, 2009 2 Comments

Pinch-to-zoom makes video chatting more enjoyable.

iChat

featured, iChat, multi-touch

Snow Leopard: Cover Flow's tweaked Finder behavior

15. Nov, 2009 0 Comments

Apple changed how much space Cover Flow gets in a Finder window between 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Finder, Snow Leopard

Cover Flow, featured, Finder, Snow Leopard

A shortcut for the Sound System Preferences pane (Updated)

10. Nov, 2009 7 Comments

Holding the Option key while clicking F-key controls for display, keyboard backlighting, and volume settings will open their respective System Preferences panes.

Leopard, Snow Leopard

10.6, featured, Option key, shortcuts, sound, System Preferences

Snow Leopard: Playstation 3 SIXAXIS bluetooth pad works wirelessly without drivers

09. Nov, 2009 5 Comments

A Bluetooth SIXAXIS / Dualshock3 PlayStation 3 pad can work with Snow Leopard after plugging in via USB for the first time. No extra drivers necessary.

Hardware, Snow Leopard

bluetooth, featured, gadgets, Hardware, Playstation 3

Three finger swipe switches message in Mail (Updated)

07. Nov, 2009 1 Comment

On recent MacBooks that feature multi-touch trackpads and run at least 10.5 Leopard, a swipe with three fingers in Mail will select the previous or next message in the current mailbox.

Mail

featured, gestures, MacBook, macbook pro, Mail, multi-touch, three finger swipe, trackpad