Organizing your dock can help you get things done much more quickly and easily. In today’s screencast we’re covering how to do that using Stacks.
With Stacks you can create a stack of your favorite applications that appear bundled together until you select the stack. Then they will fan out allowing you to select [...]

A couple of weeks ago we asked What’s on Your Desktop? This was a very popular post with over 130 screenshots uploaded.
MacTips viewer Matthew M. suggests we see What’s on Your Dashboard?

Open Dashboard
Take a screenshot with Command+Shift+3
This places a file called Picture 1 on your desktop.
Head over to the MacTips Uploader and upload Picture 1 [...]

Firefox 3 was recently released to the world. Here are some links covering its launch:

Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 - lifehacker.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 - arcanology.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
Firefox Inside [...]

Reader Simon sent in a cool tip that I’ll definitely be using in the future. Spotlight can be used to perform simple calculations, such as 190*42. Just type it in, and it spits out the answer. For those who may be unfamiliar with keyboard mathematical symbols, here’s a quick rundown:
* is multiplication, / is division, [...]

Here are two handy tips for working in text editors, guaranteed to increase your productivity.
Lewis writes:
Holding alt whilst dragging in the mouse in a cocoa text editor will change the cursor to a crosshair and allow you to ‘block’ select text in a square. This is particularly useful when working with tabular data.

As Lewis notes, [...]

While I was trying to fix a different problem, I stumbled upon a keyboard shortcut that brings up the sound preference pane. Just hit Option+F5. From here, you can adjust the volume of your sound alerts, system output volume and microphone input volume.

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task, there’s the fast way, and the slow way. The slow way to crop a photo from the internet would be to save it to your Downloads folder, open it in preview, then crop it.
The fast way is to hit Shift+Command+4 and take a screenshot of [...]

The Dock is the primary method for launching applications in OS X. For me, Quicksilver replaces a lot of what I would normally do with the Dock, but I still find it to be an essential tool for my application needs.
By default, the Dock appears at the bottom of the screen. However, it can be [...]

The number of possible data fields in Address Book often seems endless. Everything from addresses and instant messenger screen names to the names of a contact’s brother or assistant are possible. One of the fields that I have only recently started playing around with is the Related Names field. This field allows you to link [...]

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 [...]