After our last tip on quickly switching windows in Photoshop, you all suggested I do more. So I recently found three handy tips that saved me time.
Duplicating Slices with Option
Creating slices can be a pain to make over and over again, thankfully there’s a quicker way. Select a slice with Command+Click then Option+Click to duplicate [...]

A few months ago Travis wrote a great post on installing MacPorts. If you’ve never heard of MacPorts:

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

MacPorts makes [...]

Way back in 2005 I wrote about quick dictionary lookups using the keyboard. This quickly became one of my favorite tips–but I always had trouble remember the key combination. For some reason Command+Control+D was hard to remember.
You probably know you can also access the dictionary by highlighting a word, control+clicking and selecting “Look Up in [...]

I started messing around with GarageBand today, and was able to come up with some interesting effects.
You may have to click through to view the video if you can’t see it.

Universal Access makes it easier to use a computer if you have disabilities such as poor eye sight or hearing. But there are many features hidden away that can benefit other users as well.
One of these features is sticky keys. Sticky keys makes it possible to perform keyboard combinations hitting only one key at a [...]

.Mac has always been a little expensive when compared to other alternatives. The upside has always been a @mac.com e-mail address and seamless integration with OS X.
One of the best features of .Mac is iDisk, which acts as a remote hard drive for storing and sharing files.
But if you’re willing to get your hands dirty [...]

Mail.app has a handy feature that lets you only quote a specific section when replying to an e-mail.
To accomplish this, select the block of text you want to quote:

Click reply and you’ll have a new message with only the selected text quoted:

This is great when CC’ing someone without showing them the entire e-mail–only the part [...]

This is a basic tip but a feature many of you may not know about.
Inside System Preferences -> Desktop & Screensaver you can set your desktop background to automatically change at a set interval.
This interval can be as short as 5 seconds or as long as 24 hours. It can even be set for when [...]

MacTips reader Bret wrote in and asked how to modify the folder icons in OS X. The default icons look great, but change is always nice.
There are two basic ways to modify your icons, the long hard manual way and the super easy way.

Hard Way: Manually Changing Your Icons
Manually changing your icons is as simple [...]

On my never ending quest to discover cool OS X applications I ran across Hear which claims to greatly improve your audio from any application.
It does this with various tools and effects that are easy enough to get the hang of for a beginner.

The interface was very intriguing, so I decided to give it a [...]