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Author:  timark_uk [ Mon May 11, 2009 10:38 am ]
Post subject:  Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

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=239504

If anyone has any hints/tips for 10.5 Leppard then please add them to this thread.

Author:  HeatherKay [ Mon May 11, 2009 10:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

Nope.

Author:  forquare1 [ Mon May 11, 2009 11:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

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

Author:  timark_uk [ Mon May 11, 2009 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

timark_uk wrote:
Edit - Below is a link to the thread which inspired this thread :
http://www.macuser.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239504
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 -
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

Mark

Author:  SAughton [ Tue May 12, 2009 8:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

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

Author:  SAughton [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

Use Apple remote to put Mac to sleep: http://creativebits.org/toolbox/apple_r ... _mac_sleep

Author:  forquare1 [ Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

Turn off the annoying Dock expose in Snow Leopard:
http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2009/08/ ... reference/

Author:  big_D [ Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

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.

Author:  forquare1 [ Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

big_D wrote:
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.


It basically does the same as right click. I've just gotten used to clicking and holding Dock icons to get the menu up...

Author:  ProfessorF [ Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

big_D wrote:
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.



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.

Author:  oceanicitl [ Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

big_D wrote:
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.


Mr D! Can't believe you told us that lol (not laughing really... no honest!... :lol: )

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

ProfessorF wrote:
big_D wrote:
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.



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.

I have two button rodents so use the right click a lot!

Author:  davrosG5 [ Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

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).

Author:  smithsocksimon [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

Is it perhaps time to retire this thread and move on…?

Author:  rustybucket [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Hints and Tips

Perhaps a new shiny 10.7 thread would be in order?

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