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timark_uk
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Is there any objections if I copy over the old Dennis thread hints and tips links to this forum? Mark Edit - Below is a link to the thread which inspired this thread : http://www.macuser.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239504If anyone has any hints/tips for 10.5 Leppard then please add them to this thread.
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HeatherKay
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Nope.
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forquare1
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 Sounds good to me. Some quick tips here: - If you have tried making your own gif/png icon with a transparent background, you will find that when you assign the image as an icon, it will no longer have the transparent background. To achieve transparency make the image a tiff format, this will work. - If you want to look at the icons of an application in more detail, either browse your Applications folder using coverflow, or ctrl-click on an app, select "Show Package Contents" and navigate to the resource directory, you should find the icon in there. - If a increasing or decreasing the volume on your Mac by a full "block" is too much of a difference, use shift+option+volume to increment a little bit at a time. - Screenshots of all the screens attached to your Mac can be taken using shift+command+3, to select an area to screenshot, use shift+command+4, if you want to screenshot just a specific window, press shift+command+4 then press the space bar, the crosshair will become a camera and you can click on the window you want to screenshot (excellent feature for documentation). All screenshots are saved (by default) to the desktop as a png file. You can also use Grab.app located in the Utilities folder to achieve all of these things. Just a few things to get us going  Ben
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timark_uk
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I linked to an image in that thread which appears to have been either removed or moved. Anyway, what I linked to was instructions on how to achieve a flat Dock when positioned on the bottom of the screen. Here's what you paste/type in to Terminal - Mark
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SAughton
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Here’s one I’ve posted on MU but not in the “hints” thread. How to automate disk image creation: http://homepage.mac.com/simon_aughton/m ... /diskimage_________________flickr | facebook | twitter
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SAughton
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forquare1
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big_D
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Never knew there used to be a menu by clicking and holding on a Dock icon...  What did that do? I've only ever used Control + Click or right click.
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forquare1
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It basically does the same as right click. I've just gotten used to clicking and holding Dock icons to get the menu up...
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ProfessorF
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Some folk still like the one-button approach, I guess, so making a click and hold makes sense. Less hassle than a modifier key and click.
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Amnesia10
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davrosG5
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If yo need to change the sound output format of your Mac you can do so using the Audio MIDI Setup application in the Applications/Utilities folder.
Useful if you have speakers that need 24 bit input (as the default appears to be 16 bit).
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smithsocksimon
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Is it perhaps time to retire this thread and move on…?
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rustybucket
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Perhaps a new shiny 10.7 thread would be in order?
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