It’s time for me to sign off my tipster post here at Cult of Mac. For my final tip, here’s one of my absolute favorites from my book. It describes how to turn any USB memory stick or storage device into an ultra-secure filestore. When inserted...Turn Any USB Memory Stick Into An Ultra-Secure, Password Protected Filestore [OS X Tips]
It’s time for me to sign off my tipster post here at Cult of Mac. For my final tip, here’s one of my absolute favorites from my book. It describes how to turn any USB memory stick or storage device into an ultra-secure filestore. When inserted...Enhance Your Login Picture With Visual Effects [OS X Tips]
If you have a snapshot of yourself as a login picture, read on to learn how you can make it substantially more funky… Here’s another tip from Mac Kung Fu, which contains over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for OS X. It’s...Switch Desktop Space Like A Pro [OS X Tips]
Did you know you can move a window from one space to another by dragging and dropping it to the edge of the screen? If so you’ll know there’s a delay before the space will switch to the new one, but a simple tweak...Search For Carriage Returns/Tabs In Documents [OS X Tips]
Sometimes within an OS X application you might want to search and replace all single tabs with two tabs, for example, or remove double carriage returns. However, if you type a Tab or hit Return in the search field of an app, it...Dump A Snapshot Of What Your Mac Is Doing [OS X Tips]
There might be certain situations where you need a snapshot of what your computer is doing. For example, if you spot a bug in a program, the developer might need to know what your computer is doing when the bug occurs. Here’s how...How To Download Just About Anything [OS X Tips]
If there’s something you’d like to grab from a web page for which a download link isn’t provided, such as a movie file, Safari offers a handful of ways to download it–with no add-ons required. Read on to learn how. Here’s another tip from...See Only Files Created Today Or Yesterday [OS X Tips]
Wouldn’t it be useful to click a link in Finder that showed only files accessed or created today, yesterday, or within the last week? That would make it significantly easier to find files you’ve been working on but forgotten the location of. Users of...Bookmark Images And PDFs For Fast Access [OS X Tips]
Here’s a neat trick that can be used if you need to view the same images or PDFs repeatedly, or if you want to simply record your position within a long PDF document. Here’s another tip from Mac Kung Fu, which contains over 300...Generate Samples Of Your Mac’s Fonts [OS X Tips]
Gotta alotta fonts installed on your Mac, but never know which you’d like to actually use in a document? Most apps show font previews on the formatting menu, but with Microsoft Word and some other apps many people turn off this feature because it...Select Text Like A Pro [OS X Tips]
Here’s a handful of tricks you can use when selecting text within a document or web page. Like many good tricks, these techniques are simple but could potentially change the way you work with your Mac. Here’s another tip from Mac Kung Fu, which...Turn Off File Download “Quarantining” [OS X Tips]
Ever get tired of the dialog that appears whenever you run or access a file you’ve downloaded? It can be an annoying halt to a workflow, especially if you already know not to trust files downloaded from questionable websites. Here’s how to turn off...Instantly See A Map Of An Address [OS X Tips]
Trying to get somewhere in a hurry? The folks at Apple figured this might happen, so they built a very neat feature into OS X Lion to help you see a map of any address you’ve been sent via email, or encounter in a...
