Group, will you believe it, Fatal error was giving his top ten, and I was able to understand him. God bless!! Just the one for Geeks left me in the fog, but then I am no real Geek . Thanks, this was a real treat for me. And I suggest that you do the Automator presentation. I never knew what automator is supposed to do.
Marta On Oct 27, 2007, at 23:08, Fatal Error wrote: > Ok... > So now you all have it. > My ten for this group: > > 1. Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/ and open Archive Utility. > Once it's open, look up at your Apple in the corner. To the right of > the Apple is the Archive Utility menu. Under that menu are the Archive > Utility preferences. They have tweaked it so you can decide what to do > when you archive stuff or when you unarchive stuff. Very cool. > > 2. Printer Setup Utility is gone. The new Print Dialog box is a big > improvement. > > 3. Anyone who has a .Mac account and has filled in the .Mac Preference > Pane and used iChat get ready. Harry has a .Mac account. He is in > Louisville. I have a .Mac account. I am in Lexington, or San > Francisco, or Orlando, or Sweden, or who-the-hell-knows. I am on > iChat. Harry is on iChat. He sees my name and holds down the ctrl key > and clicks on my name. A menu pops up that has two cool things: Share > my screen with Harry, and Ask to share Harry's screen. Since every Mac > is now a KDC (never mind this), Harry can share his screen with me no > matter where I am, even over NAT (never mind again) WITHOUT a password > risk. I know some web sites are alarmed at the ease of use for this, > but there is no risk of your password being out there. I can take > control of Harry's keyboard, mouse, and speak to him over the voice > part of iChat to help him fix an issue. Then he can pay me one Jillion > dollars!! Folks, this just WORKS and it is incredibly USEFUL! It also > works as soon as you turn on File Sharing as well. Try it with a .Mac > iChat pal and you'll see. No password risk. > > 4. Time Machine. Buy an external hard drive. Plug it in the very first > time. A window pops up asking if you want to use it for Time Machine. > Say yes. Let it back up your Mac. Feel better knowing your data is now > backed up. > > 5. Open the Dictionary. Now you can enter a word and search the New > Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, > the Apple Dictionary, AND Wikepedia. All at once. Put the Dictionary > in your Dock. It'll make you smarter. > > 6. Open anything in Preview. Use the box to drag across a selection. > Now under the Tools menu, you can Crop it. > > 7. Universal Access in System Preferences. Little check box at the > bottom, "Show Universal Access status in the menu bar" > > 8. With the Dock at the bottom, you can view folders as a fan or a > grid. With the Dock on either side, you only get the grid. > > 9. Web clippings in Safari that become Widgets. Just try. > > 10. Finally. You have one disk inside your Mac. You want to partition > it. Prior to Leopard you had to wipe the drive. No longer. Check out > Disk Utility. Partition Magic in Windows is now free on the Mac. > > For geeks: Install Developer Tools and try out Instruments. It's a GUI > for d-trace that acts like Garage Band. Screen recording, debugging, > watching over 13000 system events. Awesome!! > > Last one. Automator has been totally overhauled. I think this should > be a session at one of your Mac meetings. It's super easy to use and > very useful. But perhaps that's overload for now. > > Enjoy, > > -s > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
