Top 100 Essential Mac Applications
July 4, 2008
This is a terrific list of Mac Apps. If you don’t know them all, you should learn. These are the applications that come installed with the Mac operating system. Not all of them are free, but all are worth having for any Mac user.
Aimee
“Aim for the Apple”
Mac Tip: Confusing Mac Symbols
July 4, 2008
If you just got a Mac, this should be quite helpful. The chart below shows the Mac keys and corresponding symbols.
Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”
Random Mac Tips: Web Designers
July 2, 2008
To force-Quit a single application: right click on the dock icon and select “quit” – or if it’s wedged, press the option key to toggle that to “force quit”
Multiple Windows of same application? command ` to toggle between them, or F10 to see them all.
Forward Delete: function + delete key
FTP application: I use Cyberduck (it’s free), works great and transmits data quickly (on my PCs I use WSFTP).
Text editor (html/programming): TextMate. BBEdit’s pretty good, too.
Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”
Ask Aimee
July 2, 2008
Howdy All,
- Is there anything you ever wanted to know how to do on a PC or Mac?
- What do you find to be the most frustrating thing to try to accomplish on a computer?
- If I were with you right now, what computer related question would you ask me?
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I will attempt to answer all questions I receive.
You can leave your question in a comment below or you can Contact me thru aimeesblog.com.
Thanks & Have an Awesome Independence Day Holiday,
Computer Tip: Screen Capture
July 2, 2008
On a Mac:
Want to take a quick picture of your desktop:
COMMAND KEY + SHIFT + 3
Want to take a picture of a specific section of your desktop:
COMMAND KEY + SHIFT + 4
(A cross hair will appear as your mouse pointer, then highlight your selection.)
These are great for making screenshots for websites and the .png files are saved right to your desktop.
For Windows:
Press your PrintScreen/PrtSrn button (normally located at the top right of your keyboard).
It copies an image of your screen onto the “clipboard” ready to paste into any graphics program or even into a Microsoft Office document (you will want to crop the image).
Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”
How do We Read a Web Page?
June 30, 2008
Eyetracking research, from Nielsen Norman Group illustrates how users read web sites and explains what user patterns were discovered.
Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”
