This is a quick tip I stumbled upon while randomly messing around with my Mac. It is to do with hiding applications / windows on your Mac. Normally if you press Command + H with the current application open it will hide the windows for that app. However this can also be achieved if you press alt (or option key if you prefer to call it that) and click the dock icon of the app you want to hide. In the blink of an eye your Mac will hide every window for that selected application. This tip can also be extended if you press alt and select a different application. This will hide the application windows you are currently using and switch to the dock app you just selected.

I find this useful if I have temporarily finished with an app and want to switch to something else. I hold down alt key and click my next app. The previous app windows are hidden and will only re-appear if I want to use the application again.

This tip can also be extended to hide every window on your screen. Press and hold alt and option, then click the dock icon for the current app. This will hide every other window on the screen other than the application you have just selected. This is useful if you want to clear your workspace and don’t want to close apps or manually hide every window. In a similar method to just holding the alt key. If you press alt and command at the same time and select a different application, it will hide every window except the app you are switching to.

On a side note, if you right click on a dock icon and press alt you get a couple of different options from the pop up menu. Such as Hide Others and Force Quit.

Just a quick tip for Sunday afternoon. I found it quite useful. If you want to extend your learning about your Mac I recommend you read the tips or tricks section of this site or read, Mac: The Missing Manual, if you want tips in a book like format.

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This is a rather cool quick tip that can save you a lot of time. Most modern search boxes now a days have a drop down auto-complete feature to help you complete words a lot quicker, this is generally useful and can save you some time and effort. Wouldn’t it be useful if you could expand this auto-complete feature to more text boxes around your operating system. Thankfully you can. Simply press Command + Period (or full stop) and your Mac will bring up a list of words which you can use to complete the word you are typing.

This drop down menu appears in pretty much any text box areas such as Mail, TextEdit to name a few. You start typing a word, press Command + Period and a list will appear that you can scroll through and use to complete the word you are typing. Useful if you have a long word that have a very specific start and you don’t want to type the whole thing out. You can scroll through with the arrow keys and select your work with either the tab or return/enter key.

Unfortunately this auto-complete doesn’t quite work like the one on Google’s search box. If you bring up the menu and then start typing the menu will disappear, hopefully this feature will be improved in new versions of the OS. Having said that, words you auto-complete frequently will appear at the top of the list as well as words already in the document or text box you are using, allowing you to save those few partial seconds. Its seems this feature will only work with certain textbox area and fields so try it out in different text areas and see what happens.

An intereting feature that I just found out and thought you might be interested in. If you want to learn more this is the sort of trick that appears in Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual.

Edit: It seems in a previous post I have already covered this topic, however that was using the keys Option + Esc or F5. It seems there are many key commands to complete the same task.

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If you ever get those random errors saying a file is in use by an application it can be quite difficult to figure out what is happening, and why the application wont close. Alternatively you may want to know what files an application is using to run, this can be useful in diagnosing problems. Although you can use a terminal command to find which files an application has open the Terminal output can be massive and take a long time to dig through to find the bit of information you may want. Today’s tip is going to show you how you can do this using Activity Monitor which is far more user friendly.

Start by opening up Activity Monitor in Applications > Utilities. If you have never ran this program it is all about showing the background processes that your computer is using to run. In this example lets say iTunes is failing to close because a file is open. I select iTunes from the list and click the inspect option from the toolbar at the top of the app window.

This will open a window which can contain quite a bit of information. Select the tab that says “Open Files and Ports”. As the name suggests it is a list of all the open files that the app is using. You can look down the list to see which files the application is using. If the program is hanging or saying that a file is open which you want to use you can use the list to check if it is open by that specific program.

This tip is useful if you think a file is open and you want to check if the application is using it. It has it specific uses but is only useful in specific circumstances.

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If you have an Apple Remote and you want to disable its usage on your Mac, for example in a School environment or you just don’t want the receiver switched on its very simple to do. This post will show you how to disable your remote control infrared receiver so it can’t be used any more.

To start open up System Preferences in Applications. Press the Security option in the Personal section of the preferences. Press the lock at the bottom of the screen to allow you to change the general settings. You will notice at the bottom of the screen an option to disable the remote control infrared receiver, checking the box will disable the device.

Its a simple as that. The best thing is the option is password protected so if you have fiddly kids or students they shouldn’t re-enable the option.

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I like RSS feeds, you can find mine here, and I usually use them all the time. What better way to use them than to integrate them into a screensaver. Luckily Mac OS X has a built in screen saver which allows you to do just this. Its great if you want to view your Twitter feed or your favourite RSS feed, while you Mac’s screen saver is running. This is a simple yet useful trick.

To do this, first open up System Preferences located in your Applications folder. Under Desktop & Screen Saver, select the Screen Saver tab. From the drop down list select RSS visualizer, under the Apple heading. This is the screen saver which will be running. From the options menu add your RSS feed. You can usually find these on the website in question. When you have finished press the done button and view your screen saver.

I rather like this screensaver, its great as a general background. The image above is showing my personal Twitter feed and its a great way to the latest and greatest tweets from people I am following.

If you want more cool tricks like this, please check out the trick or tip section of my website. Alternatively I recommend Mac OS X: The Missing Manual or The Twitter Book for something more related to Twitter. Tomorrow if I can find a suitable solution I am going to show you have you can change the default RSS screensaver. I don’t particularly like the background blue colour and I am going to see if I can change it.

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Some people hate using and having Spotligh turned on. It can use a lot of CPU and take up quite a bit of time with disk access. If you want to turn it off, there is hundreds of different methods and ways to do this. Most involve changing system files. Although this might be relatively straight forward it can produce some problems and may break the stability of your system. Today’s post will show you how to turn off Spotlight without having to fiddle with anything.

Spotlight preference’s are run from System Preferences > Spotlight, so lets open up this preference pane. Then select Privacy from the the two tab options at the top of the window. From this option you can exclude files, folders and drives from being scanned. Its useful if you don’t want certain files appearing in search results.

To effectively turn off Spotlight, press the small plus button at the bottom of the window. Here select your Macintosh Hard Drive, and any other drives you have on your system and add them to the list. What will happen now is Spotlight will exclude these files and folders from Spotlight and it probably will not add them to the index.

It is by no means a perfect solution, and you will probably find the Spotlight background services will run every so often. However if you want a quick and simple way to stop it in its tracks, this is a pretty simple way to get around this. You could go into changing background services, however that is a lot more work and a lot harder to do. If you ever want to revert this process, all you have to do is remove the hard drives from the menu.

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I stumbled across this little trick by accident, but I think it is rather cool. If you have ever used Exposé with a lot of windows open, you may find that they can get rather small, very small, especially if you have the option to show every window and not ones from a specific application. Instead of trying to search through these small windows using you can press the space bar while hovering over a window to bring into view.

While using the space bar any window you have highlighted will automatically become the biggest thing you see. In a similar manner to how Quicklook works. If you have lots of reports open a quick tap of the space bar will allow you to bring one into view to see its contents. Another quick tap will set it back with the rest of the windows.

Another cool trick with Exposé is to press Command + ` (the tilde or button next to the number one). If you press these keys in a similar manner to scrolling through windows, while Exposé is running, you will scroll through the applications while Exposé is up and running. This is another quick way to gain an overview of what you have open.

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This is a rather cool little trick that I want to share with you. If you have ever used the colour picker on your Mac (a screenshot is below), that little application window that appears every so often, and you want it up more frequently for what ever reason, it can be quite hard to do this. However with a little work around, and using Apple Script, you can create a small application of just the colour picker.

To start, open up AppleScript Editor under Applications > Utilities. Within the editor type the following:

“choose color”

Make sure it is the American version of the word “color” and not (the correct) English/British version “colour”. Once you have typed that one line, go to File > Save As, and give it an appropriate name. From the options at the bottom of the save dialogue box select “Application”. Then hit save. You are then done. Double click the icon to test the application, and you should notice the colour picker window open up and you have ti running in it’s on application.

If you want to make the app a little bit more authentic, you can set its own icon. This is simple. Find an appropriate image, I think this one is useful. Copy it to your clipboard. Then select the colour picker app you have just created. Right click and Get Info. Then in the top left where the icon is present, press Command + V to paste the image in. voilà, you have finished your app.

A rather simple tutorial for setting up and making your own little app. There is one small problem, to quit the app press the OK or Cancel button at the bottom, this is due to the way the app is normally called and how we have worked around this inital problem. I don’t use the Colour Picker that often, however i’m sure some of you may have a use for it. If you want to learn more about AppleScript I recommend AppleScript: The Definitive Guide or Apple Training Series

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If you use iCal to set up reminders and events it is often useful to add an alarm. This way you know an event is coming up and you wont forget it. That’s the theory anyway. This post is about automatically setting up an iCal alarm for your events. This way you don’t have to manually add an alarm. Its rather simple to implement and can save you a couple of seconds when adding a new event.

To add a default alarm, go to iCal > Preferences >General from the menu bar. This will load the preferences for iCal. Within the options have a look, about half way down, for an option that says “Add a default alarm”. This is the option we are looking for. Check the box and add a time in the text box. The alarms are set in minutes, so if you want an alarm set for the day before enter 1440 minutes.

Now every time you add a new event within iCal it will automatically add an alarm to that event.

Nifty. Saves me having to add one.

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If you have a script or command that you are running you may want to merge folders. You could try and do this with the copy command, however you could run into problems. If you want a simple and easy way to merge files you can do this with something called the “ditto” command within Terminal. It doesn’t take very much configuration and is a quick and easy way to merge files.

To use the ditto command, open up Terminal and type something similar to the following:

ditto Folder1 Folder2

Where Folder1 is the path to the first folder, and Folder2 is the path to the folder where you want the files from Folder1 to go. If you want a practise set up some test folders and have a play round. Its a very simple and easy to use command which can be very useful when you have a script where you need to merge plenty of folders together.

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This is only a quick post, but it may be quite useful to many people, especially if you are interested in your own security and privacy. An eHow article a couple of days ago mentions about your Mac sending your location, and Wi-Fi data back to Apple. This is probably OK and there may be a genuine reason for this to happen. However if you want to be a bit more conscious of what is being sent you can turn this off.

The function is called “Location Services” and is found in System Preferences > Security > General. If you can’t make changes click the lock at the bottom of the screen. On the screen check the box next to “Disable Location Services”, this should turn off the function and stop your Mac send out data back to Apple.

Its only a quick fix. From what I have read this only effects Snow Leopard, however you can check for yourself if the check box is present in previous versions of OS X. I haven’t seen any ill effects.

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The title of this post is a little simple, possibly confusing and may be deceptive, it should really be called “A little tip to help you rotate images of people within the user picture selection window found in applications such as Address Book”, however that title is too long. When you use applications such as Address book and you want to select a picture for a users details you may want to rotate the image to make sure it fits within the slot. This is rather simple and nifty.

Take the image below (of Mr Bean) if you press the option key and then rotate in a circle you can change the orientation. A useful wheel pops up to help you rotate the image. This is useful in making sure any portrait is suitably aligned.

This option is particularly useful if you insert an image that is up side down or slightly squiffy. This function can be done in any application that uses this pop up picture choosing window.

I hope this little tip helps, I certainly found it quite useful.

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I’ve been asked this question many times by my friends. How do you make that file, whether it by a word document, html file, image or anything in between, into a PDF. Thankfully Apple has gone to the trouble of adding a PDF creator within your Mac operating system, so you don’t have to install or download anything. I use this little function all the time, when sending files to people over email, or I just want to store them as a PDF file for myself.

Creating a PDF file on your Mac is as simple as hitting print. In fact any application that has a print dialogue box can create a PDF file. For example open your file, it can be anything, you can use this web page as an example. Go to File > Print. Don’t go the usual route of loading up your printer, instead click on the PDF drop down menu and select one of the PDF options. Use the first option “Save as PDF” for the default PDF option.

Let it work away and run. It may take a couple a seconds to mintues for it to work it’s magic. There may be nothing to show while the application is working and you might not be open the file until it has finished. Unfortunatly the save function doesn’t have hundreds of options to choose from unlike a normal PDF creator, however for basic PDF files it should be sufficent.

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Currently Mail is set up so your Mail messages are at the top of the screen and the contents are at the bottom of the screen. This is fine most of the time, however people with widescreens monitors, or if you want to view a lot of messages at a time you may want to flip the layout into a “three column” layout where your mailboxes are on the far left, the list of emails in the centre and the contents in the third column. This is useful if you have long email messages, and a lot of emails. I prefer it, since I have a widescreen monitor and I want to see a lot of emails. You can’t do this normally within Mail, however there is a quick plugin to solve your problem.

The app is called “Letterbox” from harnly.net. The latest version for Snow Leopard can be found here. To install the app, download the disk image and follow the on screen instructions. Once it is installed your version of Mail will be set up into three columns as shown below.

There is a couple of settings which you can change such as switching between the three column layout and the normal view. As well as changing the slider style.

There isn’t much to the download, however I find that the three columns layout is a lot more useful and this simple plugin is great to use. If you have any other apps or plugins please leave a comment below.

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This is going to be a quick, but very useful, tip. In times of increasing power prices having your Mac running constantly (even in Standby) can be a small power drain. The solution to this is to shut it down on an evening. I, however, like my Mac to be up and running in a morning so I can quickly check me emails before the day begins. There is a solution to this problem (hence the post), and best of all it includes settings and functions already present on your Mac, so you are ready to go.

To set the start up and shut down time on your Mac open up System Preferences, located in Applications. Then go to Energy Saver and press Schedule at the bottom of the window. What will appear will be a small box allowing you to change when you Mac will start up and shut down, there is also options for putting your Mac into standby and restarting it as necessary.

The settings are not that complex, and unfortunately you can’t create extensive and complex shut down and start up procedures. However if you want your Mac to start before your wake up and automatically go to sleep at a certain time there are options here. There is also settings to change the times to specific days (such as the end of the week) or weekdays and weekends.

If you want an account to automatically log in. Go to Accounts within System Preferences, select Login Options at the bottom of the left hand list and select Automatic Login to “On”.

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For a little while I have been playing around and using GeekTool, its a unique app in that it displays Terminal output (from various commands) onto the desktop. This seems a bit geeky, but after playing around with it and customising as you see fit, it is a really useful application. Although the app does need a little bit of fiddling to get working, it can display pretty much anything on your desktop. Its great for seeing your Mac’s inner workings and very useful for getting certain information quickly and easily, most of the time there is no better place to put this than on your desktop. This post is going to show new users how you can get this app up and running and some basic commands to get you on your feet, once you get the hang of how the app works you can spend hours playing and adjusting the settings to get something truly awesome.

Step 1. Download and Install

The best way to start any tutorial is at the beginning. To get GeekTool up and running head over to the download page and download the latest version of the software. Once as the download has finished, install the app by opening the disk image and double clicking the preference pane within the disk image. This application is not an app in the normal sense that it doesn’t have a dock icon etc, it installs itself into the system preferences and runs from there.

Once it is installed open GeekTool from System Preferences.

Step 2. Add Your Command

Commands on your desktop are called “Geeklets” they can take the form of shell commands which include commands that would normally run in Terminal, you can also have images and files that run on your desktop. To make your first Geeklet drag the shell command from Geektool window onto the desktop. Then use, in combination with exposé show desktop, move it to a suitable location. The top left will usually suffice.

When you place the geeklet you will notice a properties window will appear. This is used to change the properties of that specific Geeklet. I’m going to run through it in a slightly different order than top to bottom, because I personally think my method works the best, however it doesn’t really matter how you use the properties editor.

Within the editor we have to add a command that will run. The only command that will work are ones that are not self updating, so Terminal commands such as top, which shows information similar to Activity Monitor will not run. In this example I am going to use the “cal” option to show the calendar. However as you become more experienced with the app and Terminal commands you can put practically anything in the box.

Therefore select the text box labelled command and type “cal”. After a brief moment a calendar will show up on your Desktop in the place of the Geeklet.

At the bottom your will notice two options, Refresh and Timeout. Since GeekTool will only accept static commands you set the refresh option to try the command again to get new information. For commands which will show very static options such as a calendar your can set the refresh option to a long time. Commands which show your CPU usage (which I will post later) you can set to one or two seconds. If you use commands that pings an internet page or pulls a lot of information you can use the Timeout option to stop it taking too long or using up too many resources. Remember the more complex the command and the more you refresh it the greater number of system resources you will take up.

Since the command box is a little small, I recommend you develop your Geeklet command within Terminal. It is a lot quicker to write a command within Terminal than in the command box.

Step 3. Style Your Geeklet

We now have a small calendar sitting on our Desktop behind our icons. We can now style it to make it look better. At the bottom of the preference pane for the Geeklet you will notice some options to style the text and background. When you click on the button to style the text a window will pop up giving you the options to style the text. If you want to change the text colour, click on the little green button at the top of this popup window. If you haven’t used this window button it can be difficult to find.

Have a play around with the text size and colour. I recommend an transparent background with white text, however adjust it to meet your desktop background and style.

Step 4. Position Your Geeklet

The final step is to fully position your Geeklet. The reason I suggest you do this last is due to the style and size of your command. There is no point in positioning a Geeklet only to have to move it again when you write your command and style it. Within the properties box add a name and use the text box numbers to position it on screen. You can move the Geeklet by hand and then use the number boxes to finalise the position.

A quick tip here, if you ever delete a Geeklet by accident, press Command + Z to get it back. I’ve found this more than useful on a number of occasions.

Step 5. Add More

The last step is to add more Geeklets. The limit here is really your imagination (and Terminal coding skills). You can use the image Geeklet to get images from web cams or other sources. The file Geeklet is very useful if you want to read from a log or a text file. You can use the extra settings to make sure you get the perfect little desktop icon.

If you are looking for stuff to add to your Desktop you can check out Small Little List of Geek Tool Commands, written by myself a while ago. Another great tool is Geeklets on MacOSXTips. These are small little files that contain all of the information needed to run on your desktop. Anything your can do in Terminal will work with Geektool (except the self updating commands, of course).

My Geeklets

To get the inspiration following below is an image of what I have on my desktop. I’m still thinking about adding more, I need to find the time to play around with the commands.

As shown there is a calendar, current disk space, load on my Mac and well as network through put (from the Geeklet website just mentioned). I also have a liveish image of the international space station found from Heavens Above which is set to update every 30 seconds. The following commands were used for load and CPU usage. Although it uses top (which is self updating command and thus not allowed), to actually cuts information out of the top command so it is perfectly OK.

top -l 1 | awk '/Load/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4" " $5}'; top -l 1 | awk '/CPU usage/ {print $1 " " $2" " $3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}' ;

Conclusion

There are hundreds of ways to play around with this little program. I’ve had it installed over the last couple of days and made many commands and options which i’ve placed on my desktop. It is limitless for what you can do. The best way to use this app is to play around with it and query Google any time you have a problem or need something doing.

If you have found some cool Geeklets or commands, please leave a comment below. Also if you have set up some cool desktops please give a link to an image of what you have done. In the near future I may have a second post of other cool Geeklet commands, so stay tuned. In the mean time if you are stuck for commands either search this site, or visit the Terminal categories page, Google is a good resource as well as Mac OS X Unix Toolbox and The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood from Amazon.

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This is a rather quicker trick that I think I have mentioned before. However it is worth repeating. For the last couple of days my Mac has randomly been locking up. Sometimes it would be straight after boot, some times after a couple of hours. I spent ages seeing if it was a hardware problem, testing my Mac’s memory, doing disk checks etc. However the problem would still persist and it was getting rather annoying. The solution to this problem was to clear my Mac’s cache files. I normally mention to people that this is the first thing you should do if you have an application or system problem, such as lock-ups or freezes.

Clearing  your cache files is quite easy. There is two ways to do it. Either through an application or by hand. I prefer to do it through an app called Onyx although there is many applications which can do this sort of thing. The advantage of using an app is that it can clean many places at once, most of the time it is quicker to do so. Within Onyx by going over to the “Cleaning” tab you can run through the various check boxes and delete various different cache files. It will ask you to restart after each time, but you can hold fire until you have finished every option.

I recommend you clean up every option, except Boot and Kernel as well as the options under Logs and Misc, as these options are not needed. When you have finished, restart and hopefully your problems are gone. After you have cleaned your cache files Onyx has a bunch of other options to help you keep your Mac clean.

Manual Deletion

If you don’t want to download an app you can do it by hand. Although it doesn’t have as many options as using an app such as Oynx, doing it by hand is certainly useful. Your three main cache file locations are found in:

/Users/[name]/Library/Caches
/Library/Caches
/System/Library/Caches

Delete all of the files within those folders and restart. This should have solved your problem.

The caches files one you Mac are designed to be a quick way for apps to retrieve certain elements needed by the app for fast operation. Sometimes they get corrupted and don’t function as desired, by deleting them you force your Mac to great a new fresh file. When you start your Mac and an app up again after the install it may be a little slower as it has to create the cache file. However once it is created you Mac should be up to full speed.

If your Mac still locks up and freezes it is probably a specific hardware or software problem and you may need to delve deeper. If you want to learn more about your Mac I recommend Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Bible. They are both great books.

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When I get email’s from certain contacts I like to keep track of who is sending them and organise them appropriately. The best way i’ve found to do this is through Smart Mailboxes. This evening i’m going to show you how you can combine the use of Address Book and Mail to pull emails from certain contacts so you can quickly and easily manage them. It takes a little bit of work, however its very useful.

Smart Mailboxes are a way to filter emails. To filters ones from friends or family we are going to create a group within Address Book. Open up Address Book, found in Applications. If you have your contacts all ready imported and within Address Book, great, if you don’t you can skip to the end where I post where I have an alternate solution. Within Address Book, under the Group Column click the small plus icon, or select File > New Group. Then add all your friends or family to the group.

Now you have your group ready we can add it to a Smart Mail box within Mail. Under Mail go to Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox. From the first pop up menu select “Sender is member of group” and then select the new group you have made. Press OK and you are done. The new Smart Mailbox will now contain all of the emails from the people within the group.

If you don’t want to go to the trouble of making a group within Address Book, or you don’t have those contacts listed you can do the following. Instead of adding a group from Address Book you could simply add each individual email message. Select “from” from the first drop down menu and add each email address as needed by clicking the plus button. Make sure the drop down menu is set to “any” and not “all”.

This selection is OK, if you have a couple of email addresses, however if you have plenty of email addresses it can become a bit impractical. The first option, utilising, Address Book, is more useful. Overall you can do some really cool things with Smart Mailboxes and this one is quite useful.

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This is a quick post for people using external mice (as opposed to track pads) who want to control the scrolling direction of your mouse. With the advent of scrolling balls, instead of wheels you may find your page flying around when using the small tracker ball. I find this really annoying and prefer vertical and horizontal tracking to make things a bit more organised. This is very simple and easy to do. Although settings might be slightly different depending on your mouse, the basic principle is the same.

To change your settings open System Preferences and select Mouse. Depending on your mouse the setting will be slightly different however you are looking for an option called “Scrolling”. Within this drop down you can select how your tracker ball works. You can have either vertical scrolling, horizontal and vertical scrolling or 360 degree where you can scroll in any direction. Change the settings as you please, I prefer just vertical scrolling to stop certain pages flying around when I use the scrolling ball. If you want you can turn the scrolling off completely.

Its only a simple trick, however one that can be easily overlooked. Its also useful if you find pages moving all over the place when you use your might mouse or tracker ball.

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Here is a quick little trick which I find quite useful. Depending on how you work and organise your desktop, icons such as your Hard Drive and connected servers may never be used by yourself. They could be taken up valuable space. This can be further exasperated if you have a lot of Hard Drives and servers connected. Most of you desktop could be taken up by unused icons which you may never need to use. Its a rather simple method to remove icons such as Hard Drives, Servers and connected iPods from your desktop.

For once we are not going to use any Terminal trick. The answer lies within Finder’s preferences. The preference pane, for me, tends to be the first item I look at hen I use a new application or want something sorted. In Finder however a lot of the settings get changed within System Preferences, so it can get over looked. To open up the Preference pane, either go to Finder > Preferences or press Command + , (comma) with the Finder app selected. A little window similar to the following will open up.

The check boxes at the top of the General tab or the ones we are looking for. De-select an items you don’t want. In a flash they are gone. Unfortunately you can deselect specific items, only groups of items. However if you want to free up some Desktop space, de-selecting any of the four items is recommend. I prefer removing “Connected Servers” from the list, after a good afternoon of moving files around I can have loads of connected servers on my desktop which starts to make things a bit messy.

Its just a simple tip, however I find it very useful. The simple ones tends to be the best.

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