Coolest Thing A Mac Can Do

(or funniest thing you can do to your friend’s Mac!)

Coolest Useless Thing a Mac Can Do!

Do this for fun…. Hold down the following keys, all at the same time. Best to start with the first and then add each. COOL HUH? To reverse, just do the same thing. Better yet, do it to a friends Mac and make them beg for you to put it back to normal! (don’t worry, its harmless!)

ctrl-option-apple-8

Mail Just Got a Whole Lot Better!

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In previous apple operating systems adding a new mail account (e.g. Yahoo! Gmail etc.). In OS 10.5, there is a new automatic set up account button! Open Mail, and go to preferences, accounts, and then the little plus button at the bottom.

Then it will show you a window like this…

Notice the “Automatically set up account” button…

Silent Volume Control

If you are ever in a public place, staff meeting  or whatever this feature comes in handy…

Every time you raise or lower the volume, it makes a “bloop” sound, you can turn that off by going to system preferences…or you  can hold down the shift key while lowering or raising the volume to not play that sound.

Feel free to write regarding any comments or questions in the comments or by emailing chadsmacblog@gmail.com

New Feature in Address Book!

In OS 10.5 (Leopard), Address Book has some new cool features including the pictures.

After you take the picture, you can click the effect button to the right of the shutter button, and believe it or not, there is more effecs than Photo Booth. Here are some:

Merry Christmas,

New Features in Photo Booth!

If you have Leopard, you will see that Photo Booth has some new features including multiple pictures capture, movie recording, build in green screen, no countdown capture, and no flash! To turn off the flash simply press the shift key while clicking on the Shutter button. To turn off the countdown,  hold down the option button and click on the Shutter button. To have no flash or countdown, hold down shift and option and then click on the Shutter button.

Leopard Space Bar!

Here is a cool little feature in Leopard: Quickview. It really saves a lot of time, specially if it is a Microsoft file or a Adobe file etc. Well, if you need to see it a little more, click on the file and hit (space bar).

Here is what it looks like when you are playing a movie in quickview:

Here is what it looks like when you hit the spacebar:

-or with the the background-

(Special thanks to the Spencers, one of my favorite magicians)

New Features on the New Dock…

Everything Apple does just keeps getting better (as usual). For instance, with the new dock, (which I don’t like the new dock as much) there is a new feature that shows you what programs are open! All open programs will have a new little blue light/reflection under the application icon.

Lets zoom in

See that little blue light at the bottom of the picture?

Comments? Questions? Let me know!

Scroll Through Open Programs

Here is-what I consider-a need-to-know time saver. In windows you were able to scroll though open programs, you can too! Here is the code: Hold down (apple) and click (tab) once, then you can click (tab) multiple times to scroll through open programs as long as you hold down (apple). You can also close and hide the programs: hold down (apple) and click tab once or as many time as you need to get to an application that you want to close or hide, then when that application is highlighted, click “Q” to quit it, or “H” to hide it. [You can let-go of (apple) now]

More:
Hold down (apple) and hit (tab) once, once you have done that, continue to hold down (apple) and you can use your mouse to scroll over applications.

Change an Icon in 10 EASY STEPS!

Changing icons can be so helpful! It will allow you to be a lot more organized! For instance I use a free password manager called 1Password for all the many passwords that I have, and to disguise it (even though it’s secure) I have it look like this…

It’s simple here is all you have to do:

1) Download some icons and open .zip folder and click once on the icon of your choice

2) Click apple+i and a new info window -keep this window up

3) Go to a folder (or application) that you want to change the icon to, and click it once

4) Click apple+i and another info window will open

So this is what you have so far.

5) Go to the icon that you downloaded info box (in this picture on the left), and select the smaller icon at the top it will be highlighted in blue

6) Now go to Edit–>Copy or (apple+c)

7) Then go to the other folder’s icon window and select the icon at the top

Let’s zoom in:

While that folder is still highlighted go to Edit–>Paste or (apple+V)

9) Close out of the windows

10) Pat yourself on the back, you just changed the look of an icon in 10 easy steps!

Any questions? Just let me know in the comments and I’ll get back to you ASAP. Also-if anyone can find an icon converter or instructions please let me know!

If you don’t get it and need to see it be done… here you go!

http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p270/drumer4one/?action=view&current=iShowU-Capture.flv

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!

On all Macs there is this great little feature that I like to call “Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!” What is is is a feature that allows you to zoom in to extreme measures. This is great for working with Photoshop and other photo editors, and also if you are trying to learn how icons and what not are made.

For instance this is what the Apple logo looks like zoomed in.

To turn this feature on/off press: apple+option+8

To zoom in even more (when feature is on): apple+option+[pluss]

To zoom out (feature must be on): apple+option+[minus]

Got questions or ideas that you want me to post?-leave a comment.