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Expos? in Snow Leopard has gained a lot of new features. We’ve already discussed using Dock Expos

I’ve noticed in 10.6 that when I use Exposé in Application Windows mode, it shows me all my windows, not just the ones in the current Space. I always end up clicking on the wrong window and being whisked away to a another Sp…

This is a Snow Leopard update, and a bundling of, the hint on using Time Machine on a networked AFP volume and this comment about creating a bootable Time Machine backup. Issues addressed: I have a Time Machine backup d…

I, and a number of my friends, have notied that certa…

I quite often open a bunch of windows in one Space and minimize them, yet have the application open in another Space.

Despite Apple’s suggestion on the Snow Leopard specs page that, when going from Tiger 10.4.x to Snow Leopard, you should buy the box set… Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger: If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X …

I previously used Fission to trim Audio Files to the required length, but since updating to 10.6, Fission crashes when attempting to save.

In the version of Mail in 10.5 and below, I could only arrange the mailboxes in the On My Mac section of the sidebar by using a spaces in front of the mailbox names to control their position. This is no longer required in …

I, like many others, really liked the tabs-on-top look the Safari 4 Beta had, and felt cheated when it was removed from the final version. It’s not really devastating to be missing this, but as a laptop user, I want to have e…

I’ve been wanting Apple to add the ability to close an app or window through Exposé since I first saw Exposé.

With one of the 10.5.x updates, Apple removed the hidden screen sharing preferences that gave you a toolbar item to enable and disable keyboard and mouse control when viewing a client computer with Screen Sharing. This featur…

The longer an email conversation goes on, the lower the signal-to-noise ratio of new messages. Mail in Snow Leopard introduces a way to quickly highlight and delete a block of previous replies

If you’re using Mail and you receive a email messages that contain a Windows-style UNC path (\servernameshare), you can just click on it and Mail will convert it to something the Finder understands, i.e. sm…

I sometimes want to create an event in iCal from a date that appears on a web page I’m viewing in Safari. Using Automator, I created a Service to do just that. Here’s how: Launch Automator Select Service from the Choo…

When you Shift-click the standard Sound Volume icon in the menu bar, the control that pops up changes the Alert sound volume; you can check this by opening System Preferences » Sound. [robg adds: In prior releases of OS X…

10.6 now allows you to create keyboard shortcuts to file messages in Mail, much like the functionality of software like Mail Act-On. Of course, this technique doesn’t provide the same elegant on-screen notification as those a…

So we have all read that Snow Leopard’s iCal has at least three ways to view/edit an event’s details. We have 10.5’s bubble style, iCal’s Advanced » Open Events in Separate Windows preference, and the Edit » Show Inspector …

For those who use Preview to combine PDF documents, Snow Leopard has added a twist to the process. In earlier versions of Preview, combining documents was simply a matter of dragging the individual pages from one document’s …

I have been using the Screen Sharing application bundled with Mac OS X (it’s in (/System/Library/CoreServices) to do all my VNC screen sharing with Windows PCs. Since I upgraded to 10.6, every time I try to connect to a Wi…

It appears that a previous feature, namely the ability for Terminal’s window focus to change with mouse movement, is broken in 10.6 and causes Command-Tab to not transfer window focus correctly.


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