Mac-Hows: Macintosh OS

You won’t need any specialized software to take screenshots on your Mac. All you need to do is remember some helpful keyboard shortcuts. 1. Command+Shift+3 – to capture the whole screen. 2. Command+Shift+4 – to shoot a specific region of your screen....

Let’s say you want to find your childhood picture in a folder where lots of your photos are stored. It would be quite a tough task, just as looking for a needle in a haystack, if it wasn’t for the Quick Look feature of Mac OS. Quick Look enables you...

If you use several browsers, you may want to share your bookmarks between them. Fortunately, Mac OS actively supports the drag-and-drop feature; therefore the bookmarks can be just dragged from Safari to another browser and vice versa. All you have to...

If you want some live video from YouTube or another site to constantly run on your Mac, but don’t want to keep your browser always open, then a Web Clip widget is exactly what you need. To create it, do the following: 1. Go to YouTube.com or another...

When you create a new folder in Finder’s List View, it would be automatically named Untitled Folder and placed in the list in alphabetical order. But when you rename the folder and click in the Finder window to confirm the change, the new folder would...

If your Mac needs to do some automatically set up tasks in the night, it has to wake up from the sleep mode. This means that its display will switch on as well and distract its owner. However, AppleScript used together with Exposé allows you to put to...

Some file names are automatically changed when arriving at your Mac. A good example is an email attachment – some mail clients add an .html extension to all attachment names, making the recipient unable to open them. As a result they have to manually...

To configure your Mac Mail client you’ll need to follow a sequence of easy steps and specify the following parameters: • Full Name. Your identifier seen by the recipient in the From field of your emails. • Email Address. You email address that includes...

Keep forgetting about birthdays? With Address Book’s Birthday feature, you will never disappoint of your friends and family members again! To activate this feature, do the following: 1. In the Address Book, select a contact. 2. From the Card menu, select...

Got a built-in iSight camera? Then take advantage of the Photo Booth app and create an instant photo of yourself that can be easily turned into a Buddy Picture for iChat. All you have to do is: 1. Select the type of a photo you’d like to take, look...