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List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

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Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

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post #11

Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…

Because of the way application bundles work, you do not strictly have to move them to the /Applications folder on the hdd.

I first started using computers on a Mac SE, I found the whole setup.exe thing to put things on the disk for DOS and more especially Windows, to be odd. I was used to just running applications from the floppy disk it sat on.

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#54

I was just playing around with option+menu bar items and discovered that notifications can be disabled by option-clicking the notification center icon on the far right in Mountain Lion. Then if you click to open notification center there is text which says that notifications will turn back on tomorrow and a toggle to turn them back on now

The switch for this is always there, reachable by scrolling up past the top of the notifications panel.

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#55
post #21

Sometimes Stackexchange sites will close a thread, because it's "not a question". Sometime's they won't. Nitpicking, but this is not a question. (Still great answers, though.)

As I recall, and it's been a while so things may have changed, Stack Exchange's Apple site has always been more forgiving of these types of "hidden features" lists, much to the consternation of the rest of the network (example: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/110611).

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#56
post #11

Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…

I think it's a great subtle feature when applications detect on first-run they are not being run out of /Applications and ask if you'd like to have the bundle moved there. Saves a few steps.

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#57
post #43

Again, not really a hidden feature but one I was very happy to find: moving files via Finder using Cmd-C to 'cut' and Cmd+Opt-V to 'paste'. (I come from a Windows background and cutting and pasting using the keyboard is deep in my DNA).

The Opt key in "Cmd+Opt-V to 'paste'" is unnecessary.

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#58
post #43

Again, not really a hidden feature but one I was very happy to find: moving files via Finder using Cmd-C to 'cut' and Cmd+Opt-V to 'paste'. (I come from a Windows background and cutting and pasting using the keyboard is deep in my DNA).

The Opt key in "Cmd+Opt-V to 'paste'" is unnecessary.

Without the option key, Cmd-C/Cmd-V just copies and pastes. Cmd-C/Cmd+Opt-V cuts and pastes.

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#59
post #32
post #11

Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…

You could click on the translucent bar button on the top right of a DMG-window, then you get the sidebar on the left back. But apparently it's been removed in Lion: http://myintarweb.com/dispatch/lion-tip

> the translucent bar button

a.k.a "the pill".

Re: List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

#60
post #28

How about the PRISM and hardware tracking built into iPhones? edit: let the down votes commence, I've got some karma to burn.

If you're getting downvotes for this one, it's not because you're voicing some controversial opinion, it's because you made a really dumb comment.
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