An annoying thing about Safari is that it does not have a feature that enables you to save your session for the next time you launch the application. However, there is a makeshift way to do it.
Make sure multiple tabs are open, and neither is empty. Control-Click on the tabs bar, and select “Add Bookmark [...]

There is a really cool little trick that Apple slid into many applications that makes it possible to easily find out whether or not documents being edited are saved or not. Simply look at the red circle in the top left of any window, and check if there is a large dot inside of there. [...]

Leopard has been out for a few weeks now, so how many of you have upgraded? If you haven’t upgraded, do you plan on it?

Have you upgraded to Leopard 10.5 Yet?

Yes, I’m using Leopard

No, but I plan to soon

No and I don’t plan to

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The latest MacTips poll results are in. Last poll only had 128 votes. The latest poll had a whopping 675!
The question was how long have you been a Mac user?
60% of you have been a Mac user longer than 1 year, while 40% have been a Mac user under 1 year.
 
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A cool new feature in Leopard in the Dock is the ability to override the default dock magnification setting. Simply hold down Shift-Control while mousing over the Dock, and the override should take effect. If your magnification was previously set to off, the Dock should magnify now. If it was set to on, the Dock [...]

I recently ran into a cool Terminal script command that adds a sexy metallic gradient to Stacks whenever you mouse over an application in Grid view.
Just launch Terminal and enter this:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES

Then enter:
killall Dock
To deactivate the gradient, enter the same commands but replace “YES” with “NO”.
[Via Usingmac.com]

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One annoying thing about Spaces is that it can be hard to get a really good overview of all the windows you have open. You can either enter the view that shows all your Spaces (F8 by default) or use Exposé within each space, but that doesn’t always work so well.
A trick I’ve found to [...]

Lifehacker has an amazing, detailed tutorial on how to build a Hackintosh Mac for under $800. It involves building a computer and then “hacking” it to install Leopard. It seems like a really interesting way to get OS X for cheap.
Also, Gizmodo wrote about “hacking” an Asus Eee PC to run OS X, creating a [...]

One of the most random things added in Leopard is an Apple dictionary. While before searches in the Dictionary application and widget only had dictionary and thesaurus searches, in Leopard they include the option to search a dictionary of Apple terminology. Simply select “Apple” in the widget or application and enter your query.

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If you have many windows open at the same time for one reason or another, when you enter Exposé for all windows, the screen can get really cluttered. A trick that can help you find the window you are looking for is to press “Option” while in Exposé. This will bring up overlays with the [...]