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I know that lots of you are very familiar with keyboard shortcuts….but there are some that are totally new to Mac….and some of these shortcut can make your Mac experience a lot fuller Command-up/down arrow key  will Scroll to top-left or bottom-left corner of web page Spacebar will Scroll page down by a screenful Command-click a [...]

Here is another quick but very very handy shortcut on your Mac. If you want to quickly show all your Applications into Finder, hold the Command key while clicking on the Dock.

Here’s a bookmark-let that runs a Google search for whatever you want – as long as it’s hosted on Rapidshare. It’s not foolproof, but it’s definitely a start if you’re trying to hunt down something specific. javascript:void(q=prompt(‘Search%20for:’));if(q)void(location.href=’http://www.google.com/search?%20num=50&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=rapidshare.com%2Ffiles%2F%20′+escape(q)+’&btnG=Search’) To use it, make a bookmark for a site (any one will do), and edit the address to be the [...]

You can add a Recent Items menu to your Dock by running the following command in your Terminal. The default is set to Recent Applications but once the Dock item exists you can adjust it to feature other recent items too. Launch the Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and enter the following: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add [...]

By default when you take a screenshot using the keyboard shortcuts (Command + Shift + 3 or Command + Shift + 4) your file will be xxx.PNG. If you want to save it has a JPG or GIF here’s how to do it. Here is a tutorial on screenshots. And HERE another tutorial how to [...]

Here are a couple of tricks in iTunes: Minimize and maximize: unlike every other application, the default behavior when clicking the maximize button in iTunes switches the window to mini player view. This can be frustrating when you’re actually trying to maximize the window view. If you click on Option + the green button you’ll switch [...]

If you think you don’t need the eye candy of Safari Top Sites, here’s how you can disable it: Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Web Page Previews and delete the contents of that folder. Open Terminal and paste in this command: defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2 Enter or Return and quit Terminal Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete [...]