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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 ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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 ] | |||||||||
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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... |
Author: | ProfessorF [ Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:12 pm ] | |||||||||
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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. |
Author: | oceanicitl [ Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:52 pm ] | |||||||||
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Mr D! Can't believe you told us that lol (not laughing really... no honest!... ![]() |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:12 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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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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