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BZ Macs: Mac Tips
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| The Launcher & Apple Menu Folder Tip |
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| This one I just stumbled on. If you use the launcher you know what a great tool it can be. You also probably know that you can add folders into the launcher to make other buttons on the launcher (NO THIS IS NOT THE TIP!). You should also know that you can add folders to your Apple Menu folder (7.5?) and they will become submenus (make sure to turn it on first). The tip is to combine the two. Go into your System folder and make an alias of your Launcher folder. Throw the alias into your Apple Menu folder and you immediately have a great set of submenus of the programs/documents you use all the time. And since it is all based on aliases every time you change something in the Launcher folder it is changed in the Apple Menu Launcher folder. It can really come in handy when you are knee deep in applications and want to get to the launcher but don't even want to try hiding all the applications and closing all the windows to get there. It is right in your Apple Menu. |
| 1st Comes 1st Tip |
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| All folders, aliases and files when viewed through any OPEN window of an application automatically get alphabetized. In other words every time you go to open your recipe on Zebra Steak out of your 101 Ways to Cook Game Meat folder it will always be at the bottom. There is a way to make it come to the top. Open Simpletext and in a new document press the return key. Now SELECT that return (it should select what looks like a whole line of nothing) and copy it. Take this to the alias, folder or file that you want to send to the top and select the icon. Now position the pointer over the name and click again. This should select the name so you can edit it. Go to the front of the name (before Z in Zebra Steak) and make sure your cursor is blinking there. Now PASTE that return you copied out of Simpletext. Don't worry if the whole name disappears it will come back. Now press the RETURN key again. The name should come back but if you are viewing it by NAME it should be first. This tip is really great even if you use ICON view since everything gets changed to NAME view when you are opening it through an application. The other great place to use it is in the Apple Menu folder (like with the tip above). You can also paste as many returns as you want so something with one return will be lower than one with two. Very useful. |
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