Oct 23
Ever want to change the input while listening to your iTunes from the speakers to headphones. In Mac OS X 10.5 and below, you had to go to System Preferences, click on Sound and switch the sound input. As easy as this may sound it was more of a hassle and took up time. Well now that you have Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), instead of firing up System Preferences to switch from speakers to headphones, hold down the Option key and click the volume control icon in the menu bar. A menu will drop down showing the available inputs and outputs. Brilliant!!
Without (option) held down
With (option) held down
written by AppleMacGenius
\\ tags: Snow Leopard, Sound, System Preferences, Volume Control
Oct 02
Quick Look is such an awesome feature of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, making it really fun and easy to view files and folders from anywhere on your Mac. But what happens when you have a folder with multiple items and want to get a better idea of what’s inside? Well, you could always just open the folder in Finder, but there’s a cool modification you can make to get an even quicker view.
You can get this working on your Mac in a few simple steps:
- Quit/Relaunch Finder using the Force Quit menu
- Open Terminal
- Paste (or type) the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1
- Relaunch Finder
The contents of the folder will now be shown when you use Quick Look. In true Apple elegance, the files will even fade and cycle through the contents.
Tip is from tuaw.com‘s John Burke
written by AppleMacGenius
\\ tags: 10.6, Mac OX, Quick Look, Snow Leopard
