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Daily Trick 39. New Exposé Feature (10.6)
It surprises me that Apple has finally solved the hard-to-navigate minimized window issue with the release of Snow Leopard. If you've upgraded to Snow Leopard, you won't need to use Open Minimized Window Trick to reveal those minimized windows.
With Snow Leopard, you only need to click-and-hold on the Dock icon of that application and an Exposé display will appear, showing all opened as well as minimized windows.
And if you prefer using Hot Corners to using click-and-hold, you can set it up as one of your hot corner actions; you can do it by following these steps:
- Open System Preferences and click on Exposé & Spaces icon
- On top of the pane, you will be able to see four select boxes, which each of them is mapped into one hot corner action
- Choose Application Windows for one of the boxes
- Next time if you want to show all opened windows, you only need to move your cursor to the assigned corner
With simple steps, you can get a wonderful effect. Great!
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Daily Trick 38. Text Transform (10.6)
When I browsed through new features of Snow Leopard, I stumbled on text transformation feature built-in on TextEdit. Using this feature, you can easily capitalize, make lower case, or turn words into upper case.
This new feature can be found on TextEdit Menubar · Edit → Transformations.
Putting productivity on the top priority, I create keyboard shortcuts for each of the action. If you want to do the same thing, you can follow these steps:
- Open System Preferences and click on Keyboard
- From the Keyboard Preferences Pane, go inside the Keyboard Shortcuts section
- Click on the [+] button and an additional menu will appear
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And these particulars can be used:
Application: TextEditFor creating keyboard shortcut to make highlighted words upper case.
Menu Title: Make Upper Case
Keyboard Shortcut: Cmd-Shift-↑ - Menu Title can be changed to Make Lower Case or Capitalize to create another shortcuts for another two text transformation actions
As you can see from screenshot on the left side, now I have applied my customized shortcuts for these new text transformation actions.
Hope that I can help you improving your productivity with this little trick.
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Snow Leopard
Daily Trick 37. Snow Leopard Stack Highlight
Reading from the title, you will know that I have successfully installed Snow Leopard on my little Black Macbook. As a kick-start, let me share with you this simple trick to enable stack highlighting.
You only need to execute these two lines of Terminal commands to make it happens :
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES
killall Dock
After execution of the second command line, your Dock will be restarted and when you mouse over one of your stack items, it will be highlighted.
Screenshot on the right displays how the stack highlighting looks like.
Source → MacRumors Forums
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Snow Leopard