What Tips & Tricks Would You Like To See? 16

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What Tips & Tricks Would You Like To See?

Hey

Since the Christmas Holidays are quickly coming upon us, it gives me lots of free time to actually do something on this site. Over the past 3 months University studies have got in the way. Now I have a lot of time and I can do some proper tips and tricks.

What I am asking is what sort of tips and tricks would you like to see. For example over the past week or so I have done a lot of posts on Mail, this is because I use Mail a lot and I find a lot of examples which I can post on this site. I am asking what would you like to see. Simply because there may be a major section I am missing out on. Not every one loves Mail tips and tricks.

Post a comment below with the area you would like to see covered. Keep in mind that very small acute areas are unlikely to be covered since it will not be to every ones taste. Comment on it anyway, it may make an interesting read.

I have a couple of posts lined up for the next couple of days. I also have a really cool one for Christmas Day. If you asked Santa nicely you may be reading it on your new Mac.


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16 Responses to “What Tips & Tricks Would You Like To See?”

  1. 1

    Hi
    Please could you have a simple guide to automator for someone who has never used it? :-)

    Thanks!

    Comment By John on December 22nd, at 10:53 pm

  2. 2

    Hey
    Could you please do some tips on Applescript and or Automator because I have only a little know-how really.

    Thanks alot!

    Comment By GG on December 22nd, at 11:01 pm

  3. 3

    I have been unable to connect from my iMac to my Macbook via firewire; I can only do so through a router and cat 5 cables. Could you please give some directions on this.

    Thank you!

    Comment By papakeel on December 22nd, at 11:46 pm

  4. 4

    Correctly spelled ones! No offense… just a suggestion

    Comment By Roger on December 23rd, at 1:58 am

  5. 5

    A really truly complete list of keyboard shortcuts. I’m still finding things that aren’t anywhere in the Apple manuals but are very helpful.

    Comment By mschultz on December 23rd, at 2:05 am

  6. 6

    It would be great to learn delete unnecessary files off my OS X Mac (like Clean Sweep that PC has).

    Also, it seems hard to save a file EXACTLY where you want it (when saving it). I always have to save it to my desktop and then file it from there. Takes too much time and now I have hundreds of files on my desktop…where they don’t belong. HELP!

    Comment By Brady on December 23rd, at 4:01 am

  7. 7

    Hi,

    I’d love to know what app / how to restrict the amount of bandwidth I share from my airport. If I could set a daily limit per user it’d be great ‘cos in South Africa we pay (a lot) per Gb.

    Thanks!

    Comment By Grant on December 23rd, at 8:12 am

  8. 8

    I like the ideas you guys have. I’ll make up a couple of posts over the next couple of days.

    Comment By admin on December 23rd, at 8:31 pm

  9. 9

    I have tried using ichat to speak to my son-in-law in Saudi Arabia, but it stops after a wee bit, is there any advice for setting up ichat easily in this situation to continue the ichatting?

    Alastair

    Comment By Alastair Seagroatt on December 24th, at 12:38 am

  10. 10

    Some Applescripts would be good!

    Comment By Arthur on December 24th, at 9:53 am

  11. 11

    Something on how to crossfade tracks in itunes without having to wait until the first song finishes, as in you select a new song halfway through, would be great!

    Comment By Alex on December 24th, at 7:52 pm

  12. 12

    I’d like to second a basic automator guide,

    I’d love it if there was a way to mage the maximum grid size bigger (so it won’t say X more in finder(

    Also, could you please make a short list of apps for the apple remote?

    thanks!

    love your site, happy holidays!

    Comment By dan on December 25th, at 10:10 am

  13. 13

    I want to thank you for helping this luddite out on a daily basis learning all sorts wonderful tricks. i really look forward to reading your post every day to see what you have to share, thank you!
    I would love to see a complete list of keyboard shortcuts (as someone above also asked you about) I am also curious how to add a regularly typed phrase(such as my email address) to one of my lesser used function keys. I was able to find this on an imac i had about 10 years ago but can’t for the life of me find out how to do it in online or on my macbook’s help.
    Thanks again & keep up the wonderful site!

    Comment By Hadley on December 26th, at 11:13 am

  14. 14

    Please explain an easy ways to get a website verified with Google, and a sitemap generated, using iWeb. Google requires a metatag in the xml file or a web page with their coded name at the root level of the site. It is not clear how one does this in iWeb. They also suggest submitting a sitemap. Sitemap generators require some knowledge of Perl, and permission to run Perl scripts on the server. Is there a better (i.e. easier) way?

    Comment By Bruce McCallum on December 29th, at 4:17 am

  15. 15

    Is there any way to give a diferent color to the label of a sheet – of a spreadsheet of Excel for Mac ?
    In spreadsheet of Excel for Windows there is.

    Comment By Jose Emiliano on January 2nd, at 9:51 pm

  16. 16

    I’d like to find out if there is any way to change the font and icon size of the left part of the finder window. I find these links to the desktop, applications, documents, etc are too small both to read and to click on accurately for me.

    Comment By Eric Avery on January 3rd, at 6:21 pm

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