Spotlight is awesome for finding files, but as an application launcher it falls a little short. Enter a search term in Spotlight and press return; Spotlight opens a Spotlight window showing all results for your query, not the application. Of course, if you’re looking for an application, it’s probably listed as the Top Hit, […]
It’s only been a couple of days since I posted a blurb about COLOURlovers, but I’m hooked. I see COLOURlovers colours when I lie awake in bed at night. I’ve even started spelling “color” with a “u.” I’ve already added about 25 colours, and I can’t stop clicking though new colours, voting and looking […]
There are still a few days left on the calendar for July and I’m already reading my September issue of Macworld, which is brimming with reviews, overflowing with 50 Mac Gems handpicked by Dan Frakes, and chock full of secrets, including two pieces by Yours Truly (”Solve Printer Problems” and “Tiger’s Secret Tools”). No, […]
Note: Contrary to what you might think after reading this tip, I’m not an idiot. I might be blind. Okay, after Dave’s comment, I now realize that I’m an idiot and blind, too. My original post follows, but I’ve discovered that this nifty menu item is provided by SafariStand, a free Safari […]
Apple’s iPhoto books are a great way to preserve your memories, showcase your work, or give as a gift. Everyone I’ve shown an iPhoto book to has been impressed, but I’ve often been just a little dissapointed with the quality because I knew how the images were supposed to look. I’ve printed half a […]
Thinking about color for my redesign, I came across this great tip for creating a color palette on YourTotalSite.
Forget about Monochromatic, Tetradic, Triadic, or any -ic schemes. Just find a picture containing colors you like—the subject and quality of the picture is irrelevant—and open the picture in Photoshop. Select Filters > Pixelate > […]
I’ve written elsewhere about my frustrating experiences with captions and descriptions appearing in my iPhoto books, even after I’ve been careful to delete them. In creating my last iPhoto book, I tried a couple of additional tips that seem to have solved the problem. If you think you’ve deleted all of the captions and […]
I wasn’t going to bother writing up this little Dashboard tip because it seemed like such a small tip, but since I read about it on macosxhints, I find myself using it all the time.
The anonymous author of the tip calls it “at a glance” mode. To open Dashboard, you press the F12 key. […]
Someone was trying to send my wife a large email attachment this morning, but it kept bouncing back with a message that her mailbox was full. In the past, I’d go into Mail’s Accounts preferences, look under the Advanced tab, and click on the Remove Now button to delete all of the messages from […]
I stumbled on this completely by accident. If you hit Command-R in Safari, you’ll reload the current page. I was surfing the web when I went to check something in Dashboard, then hit Command-R while Dashboard was still active. The target widget twisted (actually, it looks more like the twirl effected in Photoshop; I […]