Drag-and-drop seems second nature on the Mac. From opening files to moving them–drag-and-drop is often the easiest method.
One feature you may not have known is dragging and dropping selected text. Not only can you drag-and-drop text in to other Applications–but you can quickly save your selected text to the Desktop.
Select some text and drag it [...]

Replace your login screen with any image in Leopard or Tiger.

The new dock in Leopard is not the greatest thing around. In fact, depending on your background, the windows you have open near it, and your personal preference, it might drive you crazy. Luckily, there is a Terminal trick for returning it to an appearance similar to Tiger’s.First of all, launch Terminal. Type the following [...]

One of the things that compel me to use Spaces, one of the new features in OS X 10.5 Leopard, is application binding. Application binding sets any given application to a specific space, so that it launches into it each time.
To set up application binding, launch System Preferences and select the “Exposé & Spaces” pane [...]

Easily move applications through Spaces.

Another new Leopard feature is Quick Look, which allows you to take a quick (or long) glance at any file instead of launching an application to open it.
To Quick Look a file, select the file and Control-Click it. In the drop-down menu, select “Quick Look ‘[Title],’” and a viewing window should pop up. To expand [...]

Some youtube-like flash players lose the full-screen function when they’re embedded into websites.
However, you can use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to achieve this. Here’s what you do:
a) Zoom in until the video becomes as large as you want, but still small enough so that you can watch the whole screen. You can [...]

When you open an application via the GUI, OS X checks that it isn’t open already to keep you from simultaneously opening several instances of it. However, it is possible to achieve this through the Terminal:
1. Open Terminal
2. Enter “cd /Applications/<name of application>.app/Contents/MacOs”
3. Enter “./<name of application> &”
You can do that as many times as [...]

Gmail is now rolling out IMAP support to all its accounts, which I can’t say yet, but seems like it will be an incredible new feature. iPhone users are praising it as a huge improvement to reading email on the iPhone, and here is a tutorial at 5ThirtyOne on how to set up Gmail IMAP [...]

More often than not, when an application doesn’t respond and you want to force-quit, you just need to press command+option+Esc, select the application from the pop up menu, and that’s it (another option is to ctrl-click the icon on the dock, and the force-quit option will be there).
However, there are times in which not even [...]