Expand Quick Look’s functionality with this plugin to let you view the contents of a folder.

I recently ran into a cool Quick Look plug-in that makes it so that when a .zip file is opened in Quick Look, the contents of the archive are shown instead of the default Quick Look view. The developer’s site is really confusing, so here is a direct link to the download.
To install the plug-in, [...]

Lifehacker has a really thorough and potentially useful article explaining how to use your iPhone’s EDGE connection from your computer. It is a pretty lengthy and complicated process, but if you often find yourself needing to access the internet and an iPhone screen just won’t do it, this could be the solution for you.

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Leopard’s Quick Look feature is simply awesome. It is a feature that I find myself using dozens of time in a typical day, and I don’t know what I would do if I had to go back to Tiger now.
If you want to look at a file in Quick Look in full-screen, typically you would [...]

A great tool for keeping your desktop organized is to enable grid spacing. However, you may not want all of your icons fitting into the grid. A simple keyboard shortcut that lets you override the grid rules exists.
To move an icon to a non-grid location with grid spacing enabled, simply hold down Command and drag [...]

If you Control-click on an application in the dock, you are given the option to quit an application, as well as a few other selections. Sometimes, however, quitting an application does not work, and a non-responsive application needs to be force-quitted.
A quick way to do this through the dock is to hold Option before or [...]

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The latest poll results are in. The question was "Have you upgraded to Leopard 10.5 yet?"
Leopard users are the majority in a landslide. There were 677 votes in all with 75% of you using Leopard right now. Another 19% said you don’t have Leopard yet, but you plan on upgrading soon.
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I’d like to introduce the newest way to find popular posts here at MacTips: Most Popular Tips page.
Currently it pulls the most popular posts from the difficulty (Easy/Intermediate/Advanced) categories, but also lists popular posts from each category that has more than 5 posts.
I plan on adding another option to show popular posts from each month [...]

Terminal in Leopard features tabbed windows. If you have multiple windows open, you can merge them into one window as tabs, like in Safari. To do this, simply open up multiple windows and select “Window” in the menu bar, and then “Merge All Windows.”

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