Category: Mac Treat

The Dock can seem like an annoyance from time to time, but there are lots of things you can do to make it more useful. Here is a basic tutorial along with some shortcuts that will have you singing its praises in no time! 1) The vertical line: The line that separates the Trash and…

The “Summarize” feature in the Services menu of OS 10.4 is one of the coolest (and most obscure) features of Tiger that I’ve discovered in a long time. It’s a tool that generates a surprisingly accurate summery of selected text. This is a very useful way to condense and read long web articles and other…

Here’s an old “trick” that many new Mac users are unaware of. This is an extremely fast and easy way to “grab” a chunk of text from any almost application (Safari, Firefox, Word, Mail, etc) and drop it onto your desktop as a “clipping.” The text clipping can later be opened and read, or pasted…

By Don@Smalldog.com 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 realize that you could do this but it has saved me some steps. I showed it to a few people here at Small Dog and most didn’t know about it…

I’ve just begin using Smart Folders, and already I can’t live without them. Smart Folders are a great way to find files, and keep them organized. Apple says “With Smart Folders, you can organize files by what they have in common, instead of by their location on your disk. Because they use Spotlight, Smart Folders…

I love having a Quicktime Pro license – I use Quicktime to import, edit, and export multimedia files at least a couple times a week. Quicktime Pro is well worth the $30 upgrade price. However, I recently had to give a full-screen presentation on a Mac that didn’t have Quicktime Pro license. Without the $30…