Top 10 Tips and Tricks For Snow Leopard
11:57 pm, September 3rd, 2009, Leander Kahney
Auto Text Correction
If you always make habitual typing mistakes like “don;t” instead of “don’t,” go to System Preferences>Language & Text. Under the Text tab you’ll find a list of text substitutions. Hit the + sign at the bottom, add your most annoying mistakes, and Snow Leopard will automatically correct them. Only works in certain apps like Mail, iChat and TextEdit. Unfortunately it corrects fun mistakes like “teh” for “the.”
You can also add shortcuts like “tyl” which will type out “Thank you for your letter but this isn’t my department. I refer you to my esteemed colleague, cc’ed here,” and so on. It will also fix curly quotes, which don’t play nice when cutting/pasting text into a webpage.
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Thanks. I like the applications now hiding behind their icon in the dock, but it took me a few minutes to figure how to maximize the window once it had minimized (via Exposé)
Brian, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:04 am
The force quit in the dock via Option+holding cursor over the icon has been there at least since Tiger. I first learned about it from David Pogue’s “Missing Manual” book.
Doc Izzy, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Why do you have the 10 tips spread across 10 pages? They ain’t very long and could all fit on 1 page- what is the purpose of splitting them in such a way?
sooper8, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I’ve been doing this since Leopard, the only difference now is that you can scroll. I even made a folder of shortcuts that I have set to a grid. The shortcuts are all to programs that I use somewhat often, but not often enough to be right in the dock.
thumbtack, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Oh, I thought comments went onto individual pages. This is in regards to my last one.
thumbtack, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:36 am
About Stacks as Quick Launcher…
Just hit “cmd+space” (starts spotlight) and beginn typing the apps name > hit enter & you’re done!
i almost can’t remember when i started an app by clicking its icon…
yougene, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:46 am
@sooper8 Its all about the money. Ad impressions. As a result our reading experience suffers. I hate articles being spread put in so many pages too.
Ben, on September 4th, 2009 at 1:02 am
@Ben What do you mean, “Ad impressions”? I can’t see one ad on this site!
obii, on September 4th, 2009 at 1:47 am
@sooper8 You can not see adds poping from header to right column? Weird
Does stact open when I will drag file on it? It could then replace my #1 utility DragThing for openin files in diferent Apps and Launching. Spotlight is not so fast on core solo mini and I still riding on Tiger
Frantisek, on September 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Great article. Snow Leopard is loaded with little refinements and time savers. It’s good that the word is getting out about it.
Patrick, on September 4th, 2009 at 10:28 am
I really appreciate number 8. The minimising to the right side of the dock really annoyed me, and you have just fixed that annoyance. thanks!!
Andrew Macdonald, on September 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Is there any short cut for zooming in Finder? I mean changing icon/thumbnails size.
Frantisek, on September 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@Ben- thanks for explanation.
sooper8, on September 4th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@ Frantisek – In Finder, type Command-J to bring up some desktop options.
tony, on September 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Why did I have to click 10 links for 10 tips? Stupid.
AKcrab, on September 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I can’t believe this article was separated into 10 pages… Just plain silly.
Brian, on September 5th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Stop splitting these small articles up into ten pages. I’m deleting this website from my bookmarks bar and recommending others to do the same. It’s too annoying!!!
Perry Fjellman, on September 5th, 2009 at 11:06 am
How come I have a completely different picture for my time zone?
I do not have the option to set the time zone based on my location either…
Dick Raman, on September 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
how do you have 9×9 apps in your grid? Mine only has 6×4 and i would like to have more apps on display
Peter Blair, on September 5th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Since I downloaded Snow Leopard I have had problems with a few of my subscriptions like Sirius Radio, The Met Player and Live365. I have changed from Safari to Flock, Firefox and Chrome. Some reacts better than others but there are still some glitches.
Trygve Norman, on September 5th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Scrolling a long page versus clicking through pages — not much difference, folks. Certainly not something to get angry about.
The tips are very helpful and appreciated, even if you texted each one to me individually.
Ron Clement, on September 6th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I have not installed Snow Leopard yet. However I read that it can record what happens on Mac screen. I nornally do it using Screenflick app.
Did you miss this interesting new feature of Snow Leopard?
Tmlcky
Tmlcky, on September 7th, 2009 at 12:59 am
@ tony – I mean to be able to change icon size on the fly in Finder window via keyboard shortcut. I guess it will be guite difficult to hack Finder to allow that for anybody outside Apple. Or is there Menu command for zooming in Finder?
@ everybody – This sily splitiong of artickles became more and more common. See Computerworld, eWeek and probably some others. It does not mean that it it is less sily, even more.
Frantisek, on September 7th, 2009 at 8:13 am
How do you put the applications folder in the Dock?
Nirina, on September 25th, 2009 at 2:51 am
@Nirina—Open a new Finder window, select your Mac’s HD icon from the sidebar, drag the Applications folder to the right-hand side of the Dock. Control-click the Dock icon and you get view options. For apps, Sort by Name, Display as Folder and View as Grid works nicely. View as List also works well.
Craig Grannell, on September 25th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Splitting these tips into individual pages is OBNOXIOUS.
Cut it out.
salsa, on September 26th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
… I couldn’t believe that you’ve put 10 tips on 10 different pages
btw. – the “force quit” option is there since tiger, so you got 9 “Snow Leopard” Tips here, not 10..
Daniel, on October 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Hint 2 and 5 have been there for I don’t know how long.
Renegade, on October 13th, 2009 at 9:14 am
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