Awhile back I signed up for Skitch, a service that lets you create quick screenshots, edit them, and upload them to a variety of services. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of choices, Cloud Files support is not an option. This was irritating, and since I’ve never been one to let phrases like “ridiculous kludge” or “bereft [...]

This one is pretty basic, but nonetheless very important. As OS X laptops become more prevalent among less technical users I’ve noticed that there are quite a few people who aren’t aware that right click is available on their laptop. To enable this in Leopard (10.5)1, open system preferences, select the trackpad prefpane and check [...]

A coworker got a Macbook Pro for work today and he immediately noticed that by default you can’t tab through all controls in OS X. Enter Full Keyboard Access! To enable this incredibly useful feature open System Preferences, select Keyboard & Mouse, and then choose Keyboard Shortcuts. At the bottom of the window you’ll notice [...]

Standard OS X title bars have several hidden features that can be very helpful. If you hold the command key and click the title of a window1 you will get a menu that allows you to drill down through the hierarchy to the root of the filesystem. However, that’s not the only useful trick you [...]

One of the lesser known OS X niceties is the ability to get spelling suggestions/completions from any standard Cocoa text input. To accomplish this, simply hit the Escape key1) in any supported application (iChat, Mail, and TextEdit are some examples) and be amazed. I find this feature very useful for quickly obtaining the correct spelling [...]