Lion / Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

OSX Mountain Lion

James — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:57:29 +0000

Apple have some information online about Mountain Lion. The byline states that it’s bringing in some of the things we love about iPad. (like notification centre)

Should be interesting!

more at Apple

RIP Steve Jobs

James — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:40:12 +0000

1955-2011, RIP Steve Jobs

Mac os x Lion stack

masoodzafar — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:52:26 +0000

with your multitouch pad you can open and close your stack with two finger gester . Just Up your two finger and stack is open down your two finger stack will be closed same rule apply on mac os x dock icon when we bring the cursor on any dock icon and up our two finger in multitouch pad the expose is working even if the application is not open it will show recent open files.

Zoom screen by dragging

Hans@Tricks — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:57:18 +0000

A small trick for adjusting a window. Click and hold the titlebar. Than with one finger swipe the titlebar to the top of your screen. You will see a slightly darkened window. If you release your mouse/touchpad the window will fill the window to it’s maximum (like clicking on the green + radio-button).

If you the same but then from the top to down, the window restores to it’s previous size (mostly smaller).

Full Screen Preview on Snow Leopard.

naren2900 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:05:07 +0000

Hi,

I accidentally attempted this trick of previewing the documents (without opening the file) in full screen. Not big trick, but quite productive.

Normally pressing the “Spacebar” will preview the documents and to view it full screen need press the “opposite direction arrows”. Sometimes it can slow you down.

To open the file full screen hold “alt option” key on the keyboard and press“Spacebar”. Preview will display full screen and you will enjoy more if you have a 27″ iMac.

Hope you guys like this one.

Enjoy.

OS X Lion

James — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:45:41 +0000

You know “Lion” isn’t far away, it’s been announced, there’s video’s and information on Apple’s web sites, and we have a bit of an idea what is coming to us. Exciting times ahead.

leopardtricks.com has been in service since Oct 2007, over three years now, delivering quality tips and tricks for your favorite operating system. We’ve had our up’s and down’s, and even looked at selling up the site. It’s with great pleasure that I announce today we will be continuing the leopardtricks.com legacy with a brand new fresh site, liontricks.com

Lion Tricks will be bringing you the same quality content as Leopard Tricks, including tips, tricks, howto’s and of course video’s where possible.

We are always looking for people to help with the site. Those that have helped over the years with leopardtricks.com, we thank you, you know who you are, and couldn’t have published this stuff without you!

So stay stuned, for 2011 will be very exciting!

In the meantime, don’t forget to add us on twitter @leopardtricks (rarely updated) & @liontricks (new). Check us out on Facebook and Youtube

Auto-answer Facetime calls

James — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:02:32 +0000

So you might have an iPhone 4. You might have the facetime app for OS X. Wouldn’t it be neat if your mac could auto-answer calls??

Picture this, your mac is at home/office, you are out and about, you facetime your mac and have an instance surveillance system!

open “terminal” and type:

defaults write com.apple.FaceTime AutoAcceptInvitesFrom -array-add +61410003111

(where the number at the end is your own cell number, inc area code)

You can also allow it to answer from other apple-ID’s instead of cell num’s, AND auto-answer everything..

Specific Window Screen Grab

Chris Davis — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:33:37 +0000

We all know or may have forgotten how at least to do a screen grab of a particular part of the screen with shift+cmd+4 but, try adding a space to the end of that

Check it out, shift+cmd+4+space = camera icon. Now click on a window or even the dock, tool bar or your icon set on the desktop. Try it now…

Pretty cool huh!

Sysprep for OS X

James — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:11:18 +0000

as taken from Mactalk

I admit it, for the last fifteen years or so I’ve been almost exclusively Windows-centric. I’m sure there’s a Mac-specific term for this but I haven’t found it yet. So, I’ll use sysprep for now.

What do I mean? In Windows there’s a set of tools available that lets you build a reference computer with all the latest updates, pre-installed drivers and software and your own configurations. Then you strip out all the bits that make it a unique computer such as user profiles and their associated passwords, unique computer identifiers and so on. At the end of this you have a reference install of Windows that you can take an image of and deploy to other computers. The first time you boot on a new computer it goes through some basic setup stuff and away you go.

Because I run a computer business that sells (and services) Apple computers I’ve been looking for a way to achieve the same sort of thing. What follows in this article is the results of a some in-depth research and putting together bits and pieces from various sources.

My result is a disk image (.dmg) file that I can use to restore on any current version of Mac hardware (laptop and desktop – although untested on a Mac Pro) that will have a user environment I’ve already configured and with additional software that I’d like available. It hasn’t got any pre-existing users created but runs the standard Apple welcome/setup process when first booted up instead – that way you get to create a new user profile for the new owner of the computer.

So, the process…

Print directly from Finder

Hans@Tricks — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:48:54 +0000

I received an attachment via E-mail and wanted to print it straight away.

1. So, I saved the document.

2. Selected it in Finder (not opened it) in Space 2

3. Then used the “File > Print” in Finder

4. The document was opened and printed

5. My word processor closed automatically again

In the meanwhile I was working on a document in a different Space.