Safari can open a lot of file types for you. PDF files, images, music files - all can be displayed within Safari without the need of downloading it to your Mac and opening them from your Downloads folder.
But what if you want to do that? We show you two easy ways… (more…)
Alright, so you watch a video in QuickTime Player and need to find something on a webpage.
With today’s quick tip there is no need to pause the video or miss a single second of it, just because you activate a different application and thus obscuring the video.
When you browse your files in Finder in Column view mode, you get a preview for a file as you select it. Now this preview is nice to find out about the content of a file at a glance, but there is more to it.
Did I save the last 30 minutes work now? Can something happen to me and my files? How can I tell, if the file that’s currently open, has been saved already?
Mac OS X indicates, if an open file has changed since the last time you saved it. Look at the red bubble in the title bar (that is used for closing a window).
A black dot inside the bubble indicates that changes have been made to this file, which haven not yet been saved.
Save it and the black dot will disappear.
Opening a file in Finder is pretty simple…if you know, how to do it. Especially switchers try to use the enter/return key. But this will only let you rename the file, instead of opening it.
While in Finder, press either command-down arrow or command-O. Both keyboard shortcuts work equally well, use the one that is more comfortable to you.
Command-down arrow will also open folders, so you can drill down a folder structure, using this keyboard shortcut. Command-up arrow will let you go to the parent directory of the current file or folder.
Take a look at this post, to review the special keys on your Mac keyboard.
If you want to shut down or restart your Mac the confirmation dialog can be quite nagging. As you bring up the Apple menu, hold down the alt/option key.
This will shut down your Mac as you click on the menu item. Note, that the three dots after disappear as you press alt/option, indicating that it’s a direct command (i.e. no dialog is following when picking this menu item).
As you have more and more windows open, the screen can get quite busy and it will become difficult to focus on one thing.
Find out how to get things out of the way, as you move away from an application.
The items in the menu bar offer quick access to certain functions (date/time, Time Machine, etc.).
Find out, how to quickly rearrange these icons and/or remove them from the menu bar.
Today we take a brake from Butler and look at how we can use SafariStand to never have to worry about closed windows or tabs in Safari any more.
Automatic restore of your previous browsing session is on the way.