November 26th, 2007
AppleTell: Top 15 Leopard Hints
Five excellent tips from AppleTell’s Top 15 Leopard Hints:
1. Enable the Path Bar in the Finder
Go to the view menu in the Finder and click View Path Bar to see the hierarchy of where your file is. You can also control-click or right-click on any of the folders in the path bar, and perform actions on them.2. Auto Remove Printer after Print
One of my pet peeves with Leopard is that the Printer will not automatically quit after it prints. Well, all you have to do is right click on the printer icon in the dock, and hit the “Auto-Quit” option. This will automatically quit the printer after a print job is complete.3 .Disable Spotlight from the menu bar
If you want to get rid of Spotlight from the menu bar, simply open terminal and run:sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
4. Use Expanded print Dialog by default
Leopard comes with a very handy expanded Print View which allows you to see previews of what you are printing (very handy for printing websites), however, you always have to click the little arrow button to view it. It you want this expanded view to be the default, simply open Terminal and run:defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool TRUE
5. See detailed Airport information
Leopard’s wifi capabilities have been dramatically improved. Now, it is even easier to get more information about the access point you are connected to. By option-clicking on the wifi menu bar item, you can see the MAC address, channel, signal strength (RSSI), and even the transmit rate. very handy for mobile users.
Click through to AppleTell for 10 others.
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here or to view Jason's full profile click here.
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