Mac+OS+X+Tips

It has a whole mess of useful tweaks in it and it's free. Just get it, you won't be sorry: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html Shift-Command-G for quicker access, use Tab for auto-complete of folder names. Works in Open/Save dialogs but is case-sensitive there for some reason. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and click the tab called "Keyboard Shortcuts." You have to use the exact name of the menu command you want to change. It's pretty simple, you'll figure it out from there. You can also add commands that Apple left out (like Secure empty trash in Finder). Command- ` will cycle backward, scroll wheel, arrow keys, mouse to pick an app. H will hide the highlighted app, Q will quit it. Home/End will jump to start/end of list. Command-Tab works in Expose mode. Control-Command-D will give a dictionary popup when hovering over words in an app like TextEdit. If you assign the dictionary to a shortcut key like F7, it'll always come up with the popup. You can nav thru the dictionary with double-clicks on other words. Also, check out the Preferences on the Dictionary app. Open a whole folder of images by Command-Option drag a folder onto the Preview dock icon. Change the sort order by Control-clicking on a blank section of the drawer. Tools > Annotation will allow you to add annotations to PDF's. Adding a keyword to a pic will allow Spotlight to find it more easily. If you drag something from the trash on to a dock icon, it'll open up. On the option menu for Quicktime Player, click on "Show Package Contents," go into Contents > Resources and rename "ProMenuitem.tif" to something else and it'll disappear. You can change any of the images there, but be careful! Command-Space searches bring up a drop-down menu. If you hover over something after a search in Spotlight, you'll see the path to it. To open a Finder window of that location, hold the Command key down and click it, and it'll open to that path. The pipe characer | acts as an OR. Minus - is NOT, Space is AND. Example = cat|dog(-mouse) is cat or dog but not mouse. You can remove Applications and System Preferences and Contacts from Spotlight which will also speed it up. Look in System Preferences > Spotlight to uncheck it from your searches. Anything added to Spotlight's Privacy tab (in Sys Prefs) will not be indexed. If you add your mailboxes to it, Spotlight will speed up since it has less stuff to search. When searching in Finder, you can add criteria much like an iTunes smart playlist. With it, you can view everything in a folder by using a "Size greater than 0" criteria. Before importing, click return twice and you can preview all the images on your camera and drag/drop the images you want. Shift-Command and you can click as many as you want. You can not delete this way, it's a read-only thing. Might not work with every camera. Check the date on the photo too.
 * 1: Get TinkerTool**
 * 2: Use Go -> Go to Folder to jump to Finder folders**
 * 3: Remap shortcut keys**
 * 4: App switching tricks**
 * 5: Dictionary tricks**
 * 6: Use Preview's powers**
 * 7: Open files in trash**
 * 8: Take the PRO features out of my menus in unregistered Quicktime**
 * 13: Spotlight hits in Finder**
 * 14: Advanced Spotlight searching and tips**
 * 15: iPhoto selective import**