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Install hidden screensavers

I found some hidden screen savers! Well, whilst poking around on my system anyway…
Rather than do the screen shots and write the blurb, I’ll give you a link with an excellent post about these hidden screen savers!
Enjoy!
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/03/installing-hidden-screen-savers-in.html

Orginal post by James

Stickies [Part 2]

Okay so a couple weeks ago, I told you a way to get huge stickies. Okay so you made a sticky… whatever it is. It was really crucial, like… manufacture certain to manufacture reservations for friday night’s dinner. And then… you never open dashboard. It’s handy, you love it… but you don’t necessarily use das…

VoiceOver


I accidentally came across that when I meant to hit Shift+F5 for filling in Photoshop. To activate VoiceOver, hit command+F5. You can go into System Preferences, Universal Access, Open VoiceOver Utility to customize.

Orginal post by oomonkeypirateoo

Reply to a selected part of an e mail.

Like most tricks, I stumbled upon that by accident. whether you just want to reply or forward a selected portion of an newsletter in Mail, just drag to highlight the portion of the mail and visit reply or forward. Comes in handy for those distant threads.

Orginal post by rattfink138

iTunes 10.5 Visualiser tricks

Th three new visualisers have a few tricks up their sleeves.

LATHE: Press F to see the current frame rate
STIX: Press F to see the current frame rate
Press the Up Arrow to add a second stick, and the Down Arrow cycles through available speeds
JELLY: Press F to see the current frame rate
Press the Up or Down Arrow to cycle amidst seven different …

Turn simple Screen Sharing in to Apple Remote Desktop (nearly)


Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
Type that into terminal (it allows you to see netowrked computers that can be controlled):
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1
Now, to add lots of buttons that are addition…

Getting Sleepy


Did you know you can easily put your mac to sleep by pressing command-option-eject (if you have a committed eject key on your keyboard). You’ll need to hold ‘eject’ for a couple of seconds.
How about just sleeping your display? try shift-control-eject!
Of course, whether configured in system prefs, you can setup your mac’s …

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