In Mac OS X, when a menu is open you can select a menu command by typing its name. You can actually go well beyond that, but most Mac users are not aware of how to do it. Running menus from the keyboard sounds like a minor feature, but in fact, selecting a command by [...]
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Select a menu command by typing
Posted in Mac OS X on August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Mac Pro: Why four hard drive bays are great for Photoshop
Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple hardware on August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Apple announced the new Mac Pro tower this week. For a Photoshop user, the Mac Pro’s quad SATA hard drive bays are just as useful as the quad cores of the two Xeon CPUs. Why would a Mac Photoshop user need to use up four drive bays? Actually, it isn’t that hard. First, we know [...]
Apple Mail 2.0: Organize smart mailboxes
Posted in Mac OS X on August 4, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Just as you can organize mailboxes into mail folders, you can organize smart mailboxes into smart mailbox folders. In a mail window, I had been frustrated by the inability to sort Smart Mailboxes in folders like you can with normal mailboxes, so I had left all my smart mailboxes at the top level of my [...]
Fix problems with menu bar utilities
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on July 26, 2006 | 4 Comments »
When an item on the right side of the menu bar isn’t working right (Spotlight, the Airport icon, or something you added to the menu bar), you can often fix it without having to restart the computer. Menu bar utilities are handled by a process called SystemUIServer. If you restart that process, everything on the [...]
MacBook: Won’t start, flashing sleep light
Posted in Apple, Apple hardware on June 1, 2006 | 215 Comments »
If you start up (not wake up) a MacBook, and instead of starting up, the screen remains dark and the sleep light blinks, its RAM might not be installed properly. For more, read the full entry…
Force shutdown / restart in Mac OS X
Posted in Apple, Apple hardware, Mac OS X on April 25, 2006 | 24 Comments »
Does your Mac seem frozen? Learn how to get out of it when possible, and how to force the machine to restart if nothing else works.
Safari: Open link as a tab in another Safari window
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on April 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The shortcuts for opening a link in another tab in Safari are fairly well known. But you can also view a link in a tab in another browser window. First, arrange both browser windows so that you can see the tab area in the second window. Then, simply drag and drop the link into the [...]
Deep-calibrate your PowerBook lithium-ion battery
Posted in Apple, Apple hardware on April 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries work best when you partially empty them and then top them off. They don’t like to be emptied every time you use them. There is one exception: You should run your battery all the way down to empty about once a month. This ensures that the circuit that measures the battery capacity [...]
AirPort: Can’t connect to password-protected wireless network (Log error “Rx’d mesg P-1″)
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If you can’t connect to an AirPort network, and the network requires a password that you’ve tried to enter correctly, try the following: 1. Open the Console utility in your Utilities folder. 2. Choose File > Open System Log. 3. Look for a line that includes the message: kernel[0]: AirPort: Rx’d mesg P-1 4. If [...]
Cancel drags with the Esc key
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X on March 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re in the middle of dragging a file or other object, you can press the Esc key to cancel the drag without having to remember where you dragged from. After you press Esc, you’ll see an animation of the dragged icon jumping back to its original location. This is especially useful when the original [...]
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