When renting a movie from iTunes, you can watch the entire movie even if you only have only one minute left on your rental before it expires

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Cursor Hide & Seek

Feb 5, 2008 @ 11:59 PM (PST)

When renting a movie from iTunes, you can watch the entire movie even if you only have only one minute left on your rental before it expires

Submitted by Anonymous

Cursor Hide & Seek

Feb 4, 2008 @ 10:13 PM (PST)

You can hide your cursor while browsing in Safari or Firefox simply by pressing the 'esc' key. If you want to get it back? Wiggle the mouse.

Submitted by @maccast

Setech Astronomy

May 30, 2008 @ 8:55 AM (PST)

Keep your secrets. Choose 'Secure Empty Trash...' from the Finder menu so that your files will not be able to be restored by recovery tools.

Submitted by @maccast

Skip, skip to the end of the line.

May 22, 2008 @ 4:02 PM (PST)

Command+Arrows will move you as far as possible in that direction when editing text. Up: Top of doc. Down: bottom. Left: Start of line. etc.

Submitted by @lioncourt

Make a Business Card iPod Stand

May 20, 2008 @ 11:05 AM (PST)

Got an business card? Need an iPod stand? Make one with some scissors & folding skills. Use the instructions here http://tinyurl.com/3apsr2.

Submitted by @maccast

Might as well jump.

May 16, 2008 @ 9:30 AM (PST)

At the bottom of a page in Mobile Safari on your iPhone? Simply tap the title bar near the clock to quickly scroll up to the top of the page

Submitted by @maccast

Stay in place in your space

May 13, 2008 @ 9:59 PM (PST)

Use Spaces? Want to open a new Safari window but stay in the Space you're in? Just CTRL click the Safari icon in your dock then 'New Window'

Submitted by @web_wiz

Get you PC Game On!

May 12, 2008 @ 9:26 AM (PST)

Want to play PC games on your Mac without installing Boot Camp, Windows, Parallels or VMWare? Try CrossOver Games: http://tinyurl.com/2qbyof

Submitted by @soragon

Finder Uninterrupted

May 10, 2008 @ 9:14 PM (PST)

When you are absolutely sure, hold down option when selecting restart, shut down, or log out to avoid the "are you sure you want to" message

Submitted by @PGHMatt

Extra Quartz Composer Screen Savers

May 9, 2008 @ 9:59 AM (PST)

Nav to/System/Library/Compositions and drag the .qtz files that you can see in Quick Look into the preview of a screen saver in System Pref.

Submitted by @soragon

Multiple iTunes Libraries

May 8, 2008 @ 10:20 PM (PST)

Holding down the option key while iTunes launches will allow you to choose/create iTunes libraries, good for local vs. external collections.

Submitted by @lioncourt

OS X Defined

May 6, 2008 @ 1:25 PM (PST)

Holding Command+Control+D and hovering over any word gives you the dictionary definition. Click 'more' to launch the dictionary application.

Submitted by @bohemian21

Helpful Safari Shortcuts

May 5, 2008 @ 9:10 AM (PST)

To get a list of useful Safari shortcuts. Paste this local URL into Safari file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Shortcuts.html

Submitted by @soragon

Leopard Application Menu

May 4, 2008 @ 11:48 AM (PST)

Drag the Applications folder to the right side of the Dock. Control+click and choose list. Now you have your very own Apps menu when clicked

Submitted by @lioncourt

Quick Spotlight Search

May 3, 2008 @ 2:59 AM (PST)

Spotlight. One of the best features of a Mac and best and easiest way to find files on your Mac. Shortcut "Command+Space Bar" and type away.

Submitted by @soragon

Print Screen for Mac

May 2, 2008 @ 8:52 AM (PST)

Hold down ctrl with command, shift and 4 or 3 to copy screen print image to clipboard, then it's ready to paste in an email or any document.

Submitted by @PGHMatt

Spotlight Adds Up

May 1, 2008 @ 9:30 PM (PST)

If you want to do a simple mathematical equation, type it in the spotlight search field. For example if you type 2+2 you get 4 as the result

Submitted by @charlessporn

Where are you going

May 1, 2008 @ 9:29 AM (PST)

When browsing in Safari if you want to see where a link is going to take you before you click, Cmd + / opens the status bar for you to check

Submitted by @web_wiz

Windows in Space..es

Apr 30, 2008 @ 11:24 PM (PST)

Using Spaces, click & hold on to a window. Now press control+arrow to go to a different space. The held window will follow to the new space.

Submitted by @sfdh66787

Selective Screen Grab

Apr 30, 2008 @ 7:27 AM (PST)

Press the command-shift-four buttons to take a screen shot of a selected area of the screen, works great if you don't want the whole screen.

Submitted by @lewisdotcom

Free Office Suite

Apr 29, 2008 @ 12:03 PM (PST)

Want a great free alternative to Microsoft Office for Mac? Try http://neooffice.org The free office suite OpenOffice has been ported to Mac!

Submitted by @sweyn

High Contrast Display

Apr 29, 2008 @ 07:37 AM (PST)

Command+Option+Control+8 inverts the screen. Helpful on laptops for better contrast outdoors and also creeping out people that shoulder surf

Submitted by @thecosas

Fine tune your volume

Apr 29, 2008 @ 01:08 AM (PST)

If you use Option + Shift while pressing on the Mac's volume function keys, your volume adjusts by smaller increments than usually possible.

Submitted by @lioncourt

Shortcuts in Open & Save

Apr 29, 2008 @ 12:28 AM (PST)

Command+Shift+D jumps to the desktop in the open and save dialog box. Use different combos, Command+Shift+H will take you home for instance.

Submitted by @maccast

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