Move The Dock (Yes something so simple);

As you all know the Dock can be repositioned to either the left or right sides of the screen. To do this, most of you would usually launch System Preferences, select the Dock pane, and set the position to either left, bottom, or right. Another method a lot of you would use is to Control-Click on the separator used to resize the Dock, go to “Position On Screen” and select whichever position you want.


There is an easier way. Hold down Shift and then click on the separator and drag the separator across the screen. When you get near the left side, the bottom, or the right side of the screen, the Dock will pop into place there. This is much more convenient than using the more obvious but more tedious ways.

 

iTunes 10.5 Visualizer tricks;

The three new visualizers have a few new hidden tricks

LATHE: Press F to see the current frame rate

STIX: Press F to see the current frame rate
Press the Up Arrow to add a second stick, and the Down Arrow cycles through available speeds

JELLY: Press F to see the current frame rate
Press the Up or Down Arrow to cycle between seven different jelly styles, and hit M to lock it, and again to  unlock it.
Press and hold 1 or 2, and the center of the current jelly will move farther away or much closer to your viewpoint. Press and hold any combination of 8, 9, and 0 (zero), and you’ll add an extra “glow” to certain areas of the jelly. Press and hold all three for some serious  psychedelia.

Dictionary Trick;

Hover your mouse over a word in almost any application such as Safari, then while your mouse is over the word hold down “Ctrl-Command-D”, then the dictionary definition of the word will pop up.

Reply To selected part of E-Mail;

If you just want to reply or forward a selected portion of an email in Mail, just drag to highlight the portion of the email and click reply or forward. Comes in handy for those long threads.

Turn Screen Sharing in to Apple Remote Desktop;


1.Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app


2.Type this into terminal (it allows you to see networked computers that can be controlled like the Bonjour server):
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1


3.Now, to add lots of buttons that are also found in Apple Remote Desktop, type this as one line into terminal:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \

'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \

'(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,

GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'


  1. 4.Now Restart ScreenSharing and you will see these buttons;

Safari Debug Menu;

While searching the internet I found there is a hidden Debug menu for our own Safari. Type the following command in Terminal (while Safari is NOT running):


% defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1


Then launch Safari, and enjoy the new Debug menu. It is veru useful.


The debug menu has some useful options on it, so you may find this a very useful hack. If you ever want to disable it, just type or paste the following command in Terminal, again while Safari is not running.


% defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0

Spaces All In One Space;

So this is a trick I figured out myself,

I was just working with many spaces and by mistake i clicked ‘cmd + §’ and all my active apps merged into one space

If you hit ‘C’ all the active windows will get sucked in to the first space and if you hit ‘C’ again all the windows will go back to their original spaces.