Finer Things in Mac | Tag Archive

Mac OS X's screen saver clock moves with time

28. Dec, 2009 6 Comments

A little bit of polish helps to make sure you know what time it is.

System Preferences

clock, Desktop & Screen Saver, screen savers, System Preferences

Multiple System Preferences windows appear when changing desktop images for multiple displays

23. Nov, 2009 8 Comments

System Preferences makes it easy to manage desktop images for multiple displays.

Desktop & Screen Saver, desktop images, System Preferences

Snow Leopard finally obeys English-based spelling preferences

20. Nov, 2009 5 Comments

A new language option in Snow Leopard’s System Preferences allows English variants to be used for spell checking.

Snow Leopard

language, Language & Text, Snow Leopard, System Preferences

Snow Leopard: iTunes ducks text-to-speech audio

17. Nov, 2009 3 Comments

In 10.6 Snow Leopard, iTunes automatically ducks (turns down its volume) when you invoke the text-to-speech feature to have Alex read a portion of text.

Snow Leopard, iTunes

audio, iTunes, Speech, System Preferences, text-to-speech

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

Magic Mouse finds a new home in System Preferences

28. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

The new Magic Mouse software update changes the mouse icon in System Preferences to a Magic Mouse.

10.6, Magic Mouse, System Preferences

Snow Leopard imports iWork text substitutions

27. Oct, 2009 7 Comments

This is the kind of forethought that can help make upgrading seamless.

Snow Leopard

iWork, organization, System Preferences

The new icon for Snow Leopard’s Energy Saver System Preferences pane is, well, saving energy now that it’s a CFL bulb. Update: Readers point out that this icon changed sometime in later point updates of 10.5 Leopard.

09. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

The new icon for Snow Leopard’s Energy Saver System Preferences pane is, well, saving energy now that it’s a CFL bulb.
Update: Readers point out that this icon changed sometime in later point updates of 10.5 Leopard.

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10.6, icons, submission, System Preferences

The iDisk tab of Snow Leopard’s MobileMe System Preferences pane has a new feature: “Always keep the most recent version of a file.” I can’t decide whether I am pleased or annoyed—without this enabled, what criteria does MobileMe iDisk use to solve these conflicts?

02. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

The iDisk tab of Snow Leopard’s MobileMe System Preferences pane has a new feature: “Always keep the most recent version of a file.”
I can’t decide whether I am pleased or annoyed—without this enabled, what criteria does MobileMe iDisk use to solve these conflicts?

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10.6, iDisk, MobileMe, sync, System Preferences

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