Cool Mac Tricks

Woah, its amazing how much cool tricks are packed into one machine....

here's one from Otterman on doing a quick preview of your picture files in a quick and easy way without having to open up any software...

all you need to do is to select your files and "right" click (in the mac term its ctrl+click) and select slideshow! So cool eh? when you want to end it, just hit the ESCAPE key.

Cool tricks with Safari... the default web browser on the mac.

Tab browsing!
Tab browsing was new to me for a while and now its kinda taken for granted... because it is so easy to use it. With tab browsing, it physically "reduce" desktop space! hee hee... so when you are surfing for something, opening up many windows, you dun feel like your whole screen is cluttered with many open windows. Its a brillant solution to today's web surfers.

How do you do it? Go to your Safari at the top menu bar, select Preferences and you'll find Tabs as one of the option, enable it.


How does it look like?



Secured browsing!
Another awesome feature that ensures that your internet banking information is MORE secured... When this feature is enabled, all the information captured during the time will not be saved in the cache. You will HAVE to CLOSE the window of course. Its only valid for that particular window that you enable that feature for.

How?
Go to Safari on the menu bar, click on Private Browsing.

And you will see the following box...


Secure Empty Trash!
Heard of recoverable information from those documents which you have already "discarded"? Do you know that it is still very much possible to retrieve that information from your harddisk? That's why some people will spend lots of $$ to buy software or download them to "write over" the trash 3-7 times to ReaLlY discard them and make the information unrecognisable.

Here on the Mac, its built in. Go to Finder, click on it and you'll see Secure Empty Trash. This way, the documents/information which you want to discard/destroy is truly Gone. Quick and easy, one step. All nicely thought out on the Mac. Why waste time searching for softwares? Install drivers etc? search for compatibilities? Worry if it really does its job? Its all done deal on the Mac.



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