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Little unadvertised niceties in Leopard (Page 3)
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
If you right-click user accounts in the Accounts preferences you get an Advanced Options… menu where you can edit your short name and set where the home directory is located among other things.
Did you get that from my post in the Tips & Tricks thread?
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...a/#post3520185
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
So that's where NetInfo Manager went.
Not quite. NetInfo is dead. Leopard now uses Open Directory (LDAP & Kerberos) exclusively.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Not quite. NetInfo is dead. Leopard now uses Open Directory (LDAP & Kerberos) exclusively.
Huh, you're right! Now there's a nicety that belongs in this thread if ever there was one! I thought that thing would never die.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Actually not, I must have missed that thread. I thought this was the tips and tricks thread. Heh
At least I didn't post the "look! co.ordinates in the cmd-otp-4 screenshots! OMG!" that's been posted a million times already
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
If you right-click user accounts in the Accounts preferences you get an Advanced Options… menu where you can edit your short name and set where the home directory is located among other things.
Can you screenshot this please? I've right clicked everywhere to no avail.
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Originally Posted by mindwaves
Can you screenshot this please? I've right clicked everywhere to no avail.
You need to unlock the pref pane first which I posted in the Tips & Tricks thread but Erik did not here.
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make sure you unlock the preference first
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
You need to unlock the pref pane first which I posted in the Tips & Tricks thread but Erik did not here.
Fine. I'll one up you with some screenshots then
Step 1: Make sure user accounts preferences allow changes. Authenticate:
Step 2: Right click the user account.
Step 3: Edit your heart out:
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Safari now autoshrinks too large images that are not in a website.
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
Fine. I'll one up you with some screenshots then
Good work!
Couldn't have done it better myself.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Safari now autoshrinks too large images that are not in a website.
Awesome! No more reasons to use Firefox, now. :-D
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Safari now autoshrinks too large images that are not in a website.
Damn that will make my porn browsing that much more annoying!
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You mean that much LESS. Nothing worse than trying to scroll around one-handed.
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You can still enlarge it back to the original size by simply clicking the image.
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In Finder, go to Show View Options. (⌘J) The first option says, "Always open in [current] view." This is a folder-by-folder basis. So now your Applications folder can always open in Icon view with the nice, over-sized icons.
I don't know many threads I've seen asking for this feature over the years...
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Originally Posted by shaun3000
In Finder, go to Show View Options. (⌘J) The first option says, "Always open in [current] view." This is a folder-by-folder basis. So now your Applications folder can always open in Icon view with the nice, over-sized icons.
I don't know many threads I've seen asking for this feature over the years...
Yeah but old settings from pre 10.5 are now ignored, as is the old way of making a setting stick. I've got LOADS of folders which now open in the last view I used in the Finder regardless of what their settings used to be. Not a major annoyance, but annoying nonetheless. At least we now have something which actually says "always use this view" so it shouldn't be an issue again.
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Oh and "yay!" for the advanced options in User Accounts. I knew NetInfo was gone but couldn't for the life of me figure out how advanced features were supposed to be changed. I can now change my login shell back to tcsh
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Originally Posted by shaun3000
Awesome! No more reasons to use Firefox, now. :-D
I wish I can say that - Firefox still blocks ads while PithHemet doesn't seem to work any more.
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Noticed a neat thing on my desktop with a fresh install; if you are doing pubkey authentication to a remote SSH host, a dialog box actually pops up prompting you for your key passphrase rather than doing it inline in the Terminal. Didn't notice this happening on my laptop (Archive and Install) so I'm wondering where that setting is buried.
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I just found out that if you open a PDF file in Preview, and select some text, you can now highlight that text AND choose your own highlight color. Really cool! (You can also underline the selected text).
Thanks Apple!
(I keep looking for the trick to shading (labeling) just the folder color and being able to choose the label color I want.)
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Wireless range is much better now. I used to get 0 bars on my iMac in a particular location, but now get 1 bar...2 on a good day...:-p
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I just noticed that in the "Calendar" widget, it now has the ability to show you what events you have going for that day by clicking on the "big" date on the left side of the widget. You'll get a new pane on the right showing what you have planned....as shown below:
Neat-o!
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Does Preview now support PDF forms? With the Preview in Tiger I can view them, but I can't fill them out. What about Leopard's Preview?
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Last edited by Simon; Nov 1, 2007 at 10:11 AM.
Reason: spelling)
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Yes, you can fill out forms.
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We finally have 'fuser' installed by default
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Originally Posted by Simon
Does Preview now support PDF forms? With the Preview in Tiger I can view them, but I can't fill them out. What about Leopard's Preview?
I've been able to fill out forms in Tiger too. It depends on the version of the PDF spec used to create the PDF. Preview is usually a step or two behind Acrobat.
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I've noticed that Dashboard is a heck of a lot more responsive - it used to take an age for the widgets to refresh if you hadn't visited Dashboard for a while, now it only take a couple of seconds. In fact, almost everything is more responsive in the entire OS
The help menu 'search for menu item' thing is a lifesaver when you know that there's a menu to do something but can't for the life of you remember where it is. Now, if only Apple could invent the same thing for car keys...
The Jelly itunes visualiser is mesmeric too.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
I've been able to fill out forms in Tiger too. It depends on the version of the PDF spec used to create the PDF. Preview is usually a step or two behind Acrobat.
Interesting. I came across PDF forms maybe about half a dozen times and I wasn't able to fill a single one out so I figured it's just some kind of Preview thing. So I guess I shouldn't give up and keep on trying. Thanks for the tip.
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Originally Posted by Geobunny
We finally have 'fuser' installed by default
Bah, it doesn't work
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New iChat smileys FTW!
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The two-finger on the trackpad for a right click option that the Macbooks have had for some time has trickled down to my powerbook... nice!!
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Originally Posted by Chris_G
The two-finger on the trackpad for a right click option that the Macbooks have had for some time has trickled down to my powerbook... nice!!
Which PowerBook do you have?
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Originally Posted by Chris_G
The two-finger on the trackpad for a right click option that the Macbooks have had for some time has trickled down to my powerbook... nice!!
Ya, I'm loving that on my iBook too.
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Originally Posted by lpkmckenna
Which PowerBook do you have?
The 1st one with the scrolling trackpad... the 1.67 GHz G4 introduced in Jan. 2005
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Option-click menu bar items for more info.
Sorry if it's a repeat.
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Originally Posted by iomatic
Option-click menu bar items for more info.
Sorry if it's a repeat.
If I recall that's been there since OSX 10 public beta.
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Quicktime Player now has J-K-L playback controls.
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I gotta have more cowbell.
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Originally Posted by MartiNZ
That is cool - very useful for checking those dock icon badges
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The Club Lisa iTunes visualizer was funny for a few minutes. Found in the Developer tools examples.
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Originally Posted by cybergoober
The Club Lisa iTunes visualizer was funny for a few minutes. Found in the Developer tools examples.
screens K plz thx
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Originally Posted by brokenjago
screens K plz thx
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How do you make t his work in iTunes?
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I copied it to /Library/Compositions although I'm thinking ~/Library/Compositions might have worked as well.
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I don't know if this was advertised specifically, but I just found that I can preview Excel docs (at least the simple one I have) with Quick Look even though I don't have any Microsoft Office products on my Mac at the moment. Pretty nice!
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Mail now has a real status/activity readout.
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The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
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Just noticed: Find now has a "File Name" button.
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It seemed like it should work, so I tried it...and it does!
You can drag and drop files to and from stacks—and in between them as well—just as if you were in the finder normally. Handy if, for example, you want to trash something from your Downloads stack or if you want to move something from one stack to another.
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File name in Find, cool, indeed. Is there any way to make it wait until you're done typing to give results? I seem to recall this was possible in Tiger, and it would be really handy for the spotlight menu as well - it's just not so instantaneous on a G4 and I feel that would save time.
Drag-and-drop among stacks, yeah the example you give is good, but I find it annoying for placing new stacks as all the old ones try to spring open when you get down to that area. I guess that's partly my fault for having very quick spring on, but still, a contextual menu "make stack from ..." wouldn't be too hard.
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