Set keyboard shortcuts in Mail for outgoing e-mail accounts
As I was sending an e-mail today, I wondered if there were any easy way to choose my outgoing account in Mail. Like many people, I have several accounts, and need to choose specific ones for messages I send to certain clients. So I wondered -- since you can apply keyboard shortcuts to menu items using the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane -- maybe that would work for this drop-down menu in Mail. So I went to that preference pane, clicked the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and clicked the + button to get the new keyboard shortcut dialog. I chose Mail as the application, then entered the exact information that displays for one of my accounts (in the Mail 'From' drop-down menu). The format of each menu item is: First_name Last_name <my_email@my_host> Make sure to include the angle brackets, and put a space before t...
published on Friday, the 21. November 2008, macosxhints
Create New Folder in List View 1.0
Finder, when in list view, will create a new folder at the root of the view. This script will create a new folder within the scope of your current selection. -if you select/highlight a file it will create a new folder as a sibling to the file. -if you select/highlight a folder it will create a new folder as a child of the selected folder. You'll probably want to use it via Spark or Quicksilver with a keyboard shortcut.
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, scriptbuilders
Apps: KeyCue, Combine PDFs, AppDelete
KeyCue 4.3 ($27) helps users to make better use of keyboard shortcuts that different applications provide. After holding down the Command key for a set period of time KeyCue opens and displays a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. In the new release, the keyboard combination used for activating KeyCue can be defined by the user and a new double-tap option to activate KeyCue by pressin...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Create arbitrary keyboard shortcuts for bookmarklets
One of the things that makes Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) so useful it that it can integrate, to varying degrees, with all broswers via its JavaScript bookmarklets. Many other sites also use these -- for example, I have bookmarklets for Digg, FaceBook, and more. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to activate these from a keyboard shortcut? You can!Add a bookmarklet to your Bookmarks menu, not to your favorites bar.In System Preferences, go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, and add a keyboard shortcut with the exact name of your bookmarklet. You can specify the application as either your chosen browser, or for All Applications if you use multiple browsers. If you choose All Applications, just make sure the bookmarklet has the same name in all browsers. Now I can post to Delicious by pressing the same keyboard shortcut everywhere. Yay![robg adds: This work...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macosxhints
Apps: Today, iWisdom, Slideshow Magic
Today 1.5 ($15) provides users an option for managing and organizing their iCal task and events into one window. Users can assign a keyboard shortcut that will toggle Today's visibility allowing them to quickly bring up the window when they need it. With Today 1.5, users can now add custom alarms to notify them of upcoming events and tasks. The update has also added support for the Growl notificat...
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers
Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you?ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you?re using, Help offers Numbers help when you?re running Numbers and Pages help when you?re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, apple-hot-news
Rhino CAD requires Leopard, Sonica plug-in intro'd
A new Wenatchee build of Rhino has upped the system requirements to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and introduced several new features, while the new Electric Image Sonica 1.0 plug-in provides audio-visual synchronization for Maya users. Architosh reports that Rhino can now accommodate European ISO keyboards for some menu shortcuts, as well as two new mouse gestures, four trackpad gestures, and many new c...
published on Friday, the 7. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Recover from a missing Photoshop scratch disk
Against Photoshop's advice, I've set an external hard drive as my primary Photoshop scratch disk. But when I recently left my external drive at home, Photoshop refused to start -- it displayed an error message that read "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available," without an option to change scratch disk. Clicking OK closed Photoshop.Thankfully, as it is with many things Mac, keyboard shortcuts work wonders. Holding down Command and Option while opening Photoshop allowed me to change the scratch disk's storage location.
published on Tuesday, the 4. November 2008, macosxhints
Hyperspaces brings customization to Leopard's Spaces
Hyperspaces is a new third-party app that adds some customization options to Leopard's virtual desktop Spaces feature. If you have been jonesin' for custom backgrounds and more keyboard shortcuts, Hyperspaces might grant your wish.Read More...
published on Wednesday, the 29. October 2008, ars-technica
Quick Tip of the Week: Shortcuts Explained
Pull down a menu on your Mac, and you?ll see many of the keyboard shortcuts you can use. Some involve just two keys and are easy to understand. To copy selected text, you hold down the Command key and press the ?c? key. Other keyboard shortcuts involve multiple keys, and you?ll see multiple symbols representing them. To find out what keys those symbols represent, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
published on Monday, the 27. October 2008, apple-hot-news