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Combine Expose with Spaces for Easier Window Management

The Spaces overview lets you enter All-Windows Exposé mode. You can enter Exposé, then invoke Spaces, or invoke Spaces and then enter Exposé.  Either way, you’ll be able to see all your windows.
If you grab a window in this Spaces+Exposé mode and move it to a different Space, there’s another treat: the window will retain its [...]

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Snow Leopard: Spaces adds a pixel between displays

Snow Leopard: Spaces adds a pixel between displays

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.

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Snow Leopard uses Vista-style Blurring on Dock Context Menu's

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

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Easily find the relevant part of a Google result

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 [...]

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Finder can display application version numbers

Finder can display application version numbers

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 [...]

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Duplicating folders automatically increases numeric folder suffix

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 [...]

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Display phone numbers from Mail in large type

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.

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Rearrange Apple's menubar items

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 [...]

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Snow Leopard: QuickTime X does not play video in the dock

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.

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Snow Leopard: Selectively delete pasted HTML in Mail

Snow Leopard: Selectively delete pasted HTML in Mail

If you copy and paste a web page into a new Mail message, or use Safari’s “Mail contents of this page” feature, you can click on various sections of the site in the message and delete them. This is similar to Mail’s new ability to delete portions of a reply chain while composing.

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