NCMUG Tips

   OS X   

Tiger Tips

• Secret Screen Capture Shortcut
• Create your own keyboard shortcuts
• Printing from the desktop
• Seeing a Photo's EXIF Metadata
• Spotlight searches inside Photoshop documents
• Saving Spotlight searches
• Focusing your Searches
• Narrow your Spotlight searches
• Mail: Sorting your options
• Passwords: Safety in Numbers
• System-wide photo slideshow
• Keyboard viewer
• Dictionary: How do you spell "convenient?"
• Tables in TextEdit
• Spotlight: show all
• No mess RSS
• Spotlight on Preferences
• World clocks in Dashboard
• Easily add the date to the menu bar
• Finder slideshow
• Preview link URL's in Mail 2.0
• Open Dashboard bar vial keyboard shorthcut
• Edit PDF actions in the print dialog
• Open all RSS Safari feeds in one tab
• Use the Oxford Dictionary live
• Change Dashboard's shelf background
• Dashboard weather in nowhere
• Spotlight keyboard shortcuts
• Create strong passwords
• View all of the weather widget's displays
• Add Nokia iSync support
• Quickly close an open Dashboard widget
• Detach widgets from the Dashboard
• Create a larger mouse pointer
• Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
• Installing Tiger without a DVD drive
• Virex may slow Tiger after installation - here's the fix

All OS X Tips

• Repair Permissions - helps fix program crashes and system errors
• Zoom screen on demand - keyboard short-cuts to quickly magnify screen
• Character Palette - find and use special characters and glyphs in documents
• Keyboard shortcuts - Apple knowlegebase document for OS X shortcuts
• Import bookmarks to Safari - Apple knowlegebase document on how to import bookmarks from other browsers into Safari
• Moving Files From Your Older Macintosh to a New One  - Apple knowlegebase document on upgrading from OS 8 or 9 to OS X
• Working with Outgoing Attachments in Apple Mail - a TidBits article from editor Adam C. Engst
• Use Speakable Items to control Exposé - hint from MacOS X Hints
• Powerbook repair guide
• Compressing files in one click - Apple Pro tip

   iLife   

• iPhoto - iPhoto6 advance Red-Eye and Retouch tools
• iPhoto - Create a photobook movie
• iPhoto - Navigate quickly with calendar area
• iPhoto - Adding motion to a slideshow photo in iPhoto5
• iPhoto - Create a PDF photobook
• iPhoto - How to Burn a CD With Pictures for a Windows-Compatible Computer
• iTunes - Move, shift or consolidate your iTunes library
• iTunes - Use over 300 AppleScripts for iTunes
• iTunes - Hot Tips from Apple
• iTunes - How to create CD's from Audible content
• GarageBand - Maximizing Performance
• GarageBand - "Text fonts are missing" Message
• GarageBand - Apple Support page