Category: Mac Treat

(Note – this tip originally ran in February 2007, but three separate people have asked about this in the past week. Seemed like a good time to run this tip again! -Ed) I first noticed this tip on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, but later also noticed it at Apple’s Hot News RSS feed. I didn’t…

I use Spotlight all the time to quickly find files on my Mac. Most of the time, I want to open the file so I can examine it or work on it. However, somtimes I only want to find the file, and not actually open it. Instead, I might want to email the file, put…

Preview is one of the great, bundled applications built into Mac OS X. It’s an application I use daily. On most Macs, Preview is the default image and PDF viewer. Preview gives Mac OS X the ability to open a wide variety of image files straight out of the box (listed below), and it also…

At least a couple times a month, I hear people ask how to take a screenshot of their Mac’s desktop (Geoff…). The ability to easily take desktop screenshots is an “occasionally essential” feature of Mac OS X. Here are four easy, built-in ways to take screenshots on your Mac: To take a screenshot of your…

In last week’s Kibbles & Bytes, I wrote about my favorite keyboard shortcut, Command-Tab, which you can read about in the Kibbles Archive: http://www.smalldog.com/kibbles/ Many readers wrote in to remind me of a similar shortcut for cycling through windows in open applications, or through Finder windows (if more than one Finder window is open). All…

I was going to call this Mac Treat “The King of All Keyboard Shortcuts.” Bombastic, sure–but after the essential shortcuts (Command-C for copy, Command-X for cut, Command-V for paste, Command-S for save, Command-shift-; to check spelling) this is the keyboard shortcut I use more than any other. It’s a trick for jumping quickly between active…

Many Kibbles readers wrote in last week about my suggested work-around for keeping an iTunes wishlist. I didn’t realize there are actually two better ways to keep an ongoing wishlist of iTunes Store songs and albums. Thank you to everyone who wrote in with this info! It was very helpful. First, according to many readers…

I love browsing the iTunes store, looking for great new music. I could probably spend hours sampling music, exploring related music, and perusing reviewer’s suggestions. However, it irks me that there’s no way to compile a wishlist of music to return to and reevaluate and purchase later. One of the nice things about browsing Amazon’s…

Did you know you can use the Dock to control many active applications? For example, if iTunes is active, you can control it from the Dock to skip, repeat, shuffle and mute songs and music. In Safari, you can open a new window or jump between different tabs and windows directly from the Dock. In…

Have you ever wanted to “zoom into” your Mac’s screen to get a closer look at text or an image? If you have Mac OS X, it’s very easy. On a Mac with an external mouse, hold down the “Control” key (located under the shift key and marked “ctrl” on many keyboards) and roll forward…