[cmeisenzahl]

Lost of good stuff in here:

"Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks—such as doing your job. So Macworld sent in a team of specially trained spies to uncover Tiger’s deepest, darkest secrets."

http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/feat...home/index.php

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by cmeisenzahl

Lost of good stuff in here:

"Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks—such as doing your job. So Macworld sent in a team of specially trained spies to uncover Tiger’s deepest, darkest secrets."

http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/feat...home/index.php

Good Find!

Lots of interesting tips there.

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

A few good tips (mostly old news and things that osxhints already covers), but the snarky tone ("team of spies"?) and crummy layout make it hard to scan all the tips and take them in.

[Kevin]

Nice! Thanks.

[Kevin]

Nice! Thanks.

[ReggieX]

Makes you realize how much a step backward Tiger was in a lot of UI respects.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by ReggieX

Makes you realize how much a step backward Tiger was in a lot of UI respects.

It does?

[rozwado1]

Cool.

Consult the dictionary
Reader Favorite: One of my favorite little secrets in Tiger is the Dictionary/Thesaurus pop-up window that appears in applications such as Safari and Mail. Simply hover your cursor over any word and press Command-control-D to bring up a small window with the word’s definition. If you keep the control and Command keys pressed, you can then mouse over other words to see their dictionary or thesaurus entries as well. You can even highlight just part of a word (embark from disembarkation, for instance) to get the definition of a word within a word, or a part of a compound word (such as science from science fiction).—Lloyd Viente

[- - e r i k - -]

I'm amazed how many have still yet to discover the dictionary feature seeing how it was one of the advertised new features of Tiger.

[euchomai]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

I'm amazed how many have still yet to discover the dictionary feature seeing how it was one of the advertised new features of Tiger.

I never saw that advertised or pushed, but that is just me. I just found that one out a month ago. I can't ever push the right keys though, I always add a bookmark (shift command d).

[- - e r i k - -]

Map it to F8 instead (System Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts). Much easier

[euchomai]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Map it to F8 instead (System Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts). Much easier

Great Tip, thanks!

[Kevin]

I like this

[Face Ache]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

I'm amazed how many have still yet to discover the dictionary feature seeing how it was one of the advertised new features of Tiger.

I've found the dictionary is even cooler if you set it to open in a panel, rather than launch the whole dictionary application (set in Dictionary prefs).

[- - e r i k - -]

Yes. That should be mandatory

(Don't know why they changed this as a default preference)

[Scientist]

Does anyone know of a way to make the dictionary panel bigger? It is just way too small.