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This simple Automator tutorial will show you how to create a Finder plugin that will allow you to automatically attach any file to an email without having to drag anything or even open Mail.
All [...]

While working in Finder, sometimes I need to jump to Terminal.app to perform a command.
To do this I generally:

Launch the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
Type cd
Then drag the little icon from the Finder toolbar on to the Terminal

This copies the current path from Finder in to the command line.
This works fine, but there are [...]

Reader Jean Pierre writes:

If you click on the Finder icon in the Dock, it will open you Home folder. You can change that. Go to Finder Preferences > General > New Finder window opens and from the popup menu, choose any folder you want (I like the Applications folder)

While this is a great tip in [...]

Have you ever wanted to remove items in your Finder’s sidebar? Here’s a quick and easy way: Click Finder -> Preferences… -> Sidebar and you’ll see the window below:

Simply uncheck any unwanted items.
Finally you can easily hide search items, shared servers and that pesky iDisk icon.

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to print directly from your desktop, check out this 20 second video. This is great for those of us who print a lot of short forms.
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Thanks to Esteban Marin for sending in [...]

Have you ever wanted your desktop to look like the picture above? Of course not, but you might want things like bigger font, picture/document previews built into your icons, different grid sizing, basic information about your files and folders, and/or larger icons.
You can accomplish this not only on the desktop, but any finder folder/window by [...]

A friend of mine and I were recently in an Apple Server class. In the course of the class every student is required to set up their server and client using the same username and password. With this little bit of information, the username and password, you can wreak havoc (in a non-destructive [...]

I never knew you could drag items onto the Finder toolbar. So far I’ve been able to drag files, applications and folders.
This turns your finder into a second dock for quickly accessing frequently used items.

To do this, drag any item over the toolbar and hold it there for a second until the plus icon is [...]

ExpanDrive is a beautiful OS X applications that mounts an SFTP (Secure FTP) connection as if it were another hard drive. It allows you to easily upload, delete, edit or move files like they were already on your computer.

I read John Gruber’s review of ExpanDrive a few weeks ago and decided to give it a [...]

They go over a variety of small hacks that can be made to Stacks in order to improve your life.

… Another hack they go over is one we’ve already covered here at MacTips, and that is the addition of a Recent Items Stack.