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 [...]

The System Preferences panel has many overlooked settings. Here are my favorite 5.
5. Smooth Scrolling
One small but important feature I found inside System Preferences -> Appearance is called Use smooth scrolling.
Enabling smooth scrolling makes the page glide up and down the screen without any rigidness.

This only applies when using the page up/down, spacebar and home/end [...]

Cyerduck is a great application for uploading and downloading files using FTP. It manages to be customizable while remaining fast and light-weight. Version 3.03b introduces some great new features.
Don’t let the cute icon fool you–Cyberduck will handle most of your FTP needs. Here are 9 reasons why you should be using Cyberduck.
9. Upload from the [...]

As some of you may know, iTunes began offering a special 99¢ movie once a week, starting about a month ago. As you can tell from the widget above, some of the movies can be quite excellent!
The way I keep up with these specials is through the 99Rental.com Dashboard widget. It’s worked very well and [...]

Dashboard is one of the best tools available in OS X. With a single click of the keyboard, or a flick of the mouse, you can bring up a whole screen covered in miniature applications providing everything from statistics to new Mac tips. But because Dashboard is just so useful, sometimes you end up with [...]

Reader, Alex recently discovered that pressing Option+Command and clicking an open application, causes all other open apps to hide (it also works with the desktop, much like Exposé).
Thanks Alex! Submit your own tip and get some traffic to your site.