5 Useful User Submitted Mac Tips

Below are 5 user submitted Mac Tips. Submit your own tip and get some traffic to your blog.

5. More Custom Icons

Alex Writes:

I’ve always liked the new Finder, Dashboard and Trash icons float has, but http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1420 has some great Finder icons to spiff up my dock, http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1408 has some gorgeous trash icons, and http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1886 has some very cool dashboard icons.

If you like icons you should also check out these Indiana Jones icons from IconFactory (thanks Pirillo).

View our old post on Using Custom Icons in OS X.

4. Quick Equalizer in iTunes

Alex writes:

I found out that clicking the play button in iTunes a little bit to the left of the main thing on the top with the time and the Song name and the artist shows a cool sound thingy with the audio being measured.

3. Freeze a Window While Minimizing

We’ve talked about using slow motion while minimizing before. This builds on that by killing the dock in the middle of minimizing and making the window get stuck in this state.

shpountik writes:

You can make any window curve. To do this you should enter the following command in Terminal:

$ killall Dock

while minimizing this window (with Shift pressed).

View the video below for the effect (e-mail RSS click the title to see):

While this isn’t entirely useful it’s a neat trick.

2. Take Screenshots of DVD’s

Ductapeinnovations writes:

To take a screenshot with DVD player open, use the terminal. Just type in

screencapture -i ~/Desktop/dvd.png

Of course replace dvd.png with the desired filename and Desktopwith the desired folder. For more info: Random Tech.

The complete steps are:

1. In Terminal type: screencapture -i ~/Desktop/dvd.png
2. Control+Tab to DVD
3. Use cursor to select DVD picture
4. Open dvd.png on your desktop

This is a good tip, but an even easier method I think is using VLC. It’s the best video player on any platform. It will play anything and it doesn’t have restrictions on taking screenshots of videos. Oh, and it’s free.

1. More Finder Shortcuts

Robby writes:

Two other ⌥-⌘-mouse click keyboard shortcuts for OS X exist that I’m aware of besides the one you wrote about on May 15th - click on a Dock Icon to hide all other applications.

1. ⌥-⌘-click on the Toolbar Button in a Finder window with the Toolbar showing to get the Customize Toolbar dialog box. ⌘-click on it cycles you through the different Toolbar views.

2. ⌥-⌘-double-click on a file name in a Finder window closes that window and opens the file in a new window.

I was able to get the second one working, but not the first one. Anybody else?

The second one is great for keeping your Finder windows in order.

Submit a Mac Tip

I thought it would be interesting to list multiple user submitted tips in one entry instead of many smaller entries.

What are your thoughts on this method?

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