These days everything is moving digital. Today there is digital signage (for advertisements), magazines post their articles on their Web sites often for free or in online subscriptions, newspapers are going completely Internet based and the list goes on and on. Another industry whose medium is making the transition is the book industry.
The popular O’Reilly [...]

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While writing the ScreenFlow review I needed the ScreenFlow icon to include in the post. Unfortunately Google didn’t seem to understand what ScreenFlow Icon was. So I was left trying to extract the icon from the Application.
Turns out this is extremely easy. Open Finder, and Copy (Command+C) the file/application/folder you’d like to extract an icon [...]

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Say you’re using Quick Look on a document and you want to know when it was created or how large the file is, Quick Look can’t tell you this, but Inspector sure can. Hit Command + Option + I and Inspector will appear, ready to answer all your questions
Note: this works anywhere in Finder, not [...]

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If you were to guess what application that window came from, what would be your first guess; Aperture? Photoshop? Nice try, but it actually comes from Preview.app. By hitting Option+Command+C, you can obtain this little popup that let’s you adjust the color levels in your photo. Here is a picture of my sister with a [...]

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The most annoying thing about pages is that it saves all your documents as .pages which can only be read by Pages. To be able to use your documents in other applications, you can export them to to a more widely accepted format by going to file->export, then choosing a format. I recommend either RTF [...]

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Leopard brought about a lot of changes and upgrades to the Preview application, in order to prevent it from becoming obsolete at the hands of Quick Look. Lifehacker has a nice and informative post on the great new tools it offers.

Technorati Tags: Apple, Preview, Leopard

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MacWorld has an interesting article on using Preview:
Tiger’s viewer application can do more than just perform basic tasks. It can also edit images, capture screenshots, display folder images and much more.
[Via LifeHacker]

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