Mac OS-X Tiger Edition

The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Keyboard

System Short Cuts

I've been using (Cmd-uparrow) a lot to launch finder
Shut Down (Control-Option-Cmd-Eject) or Control-Eject (Control-F12) -p52
Applications Window (Shift-Cmd-A) -p59
Computer Window (Shift-Cmd-C) -p58
Home Window (Shift-Cmd-H) -p59
Hide Others (Option-Cmd-H) -p59
Force Quit (Option-Cmd-Esc) -p59
Utilities Window (Shift-Cmd-U) -p59
Bring Forward and Hide Others (Option-Cmd-click program in dock) -p153
Minimize Window (Cmd-M) -p153

Tiger lets you add keyboard shortcuts to menu command that lack them or change them. System Pref-->Keyboard & Mouse-->Keyboard Shortcuts Tab. This is good to put Hide (Cmd-H) in Photoshop. -p164

Full list of Keyboard Shortcuts

Character Map

Last sorting characters: µ Mu (Option-M) π Pi (Option-P) Ω Omega (Option-Z)  Apple icon (Option Shift-K) -p63

Aliases

Make Alias (Cmd-L)
Option-Cmd-drag it out of its window, will also remove 'Alias' from name. -p73
Favorites Folder in Home-->Library folder -p73

Work Flow

AppleScript turn on script menu. Applications-->Utilities-->AppleScript-->AppleScript Utilities; turn on "show Script Menu in Menu Bar." -p251

Burn Folder File-->New Burn Folder. Mac sets aside aliases of the files and folders you want to burn. -p407

TinkerTool Freeware program like Tweak UI on Windows. - p626

RCDefaultApp Freeware program by Rubicode to recreate a Internet System Preference Panel. - p705

AppleCare module in Sherlock gives a direct line to Apple's Knowledge Base for every Mac made. -p738

iTunes

? Displays cheat sheet of secret Visuals keystokes -p417

Safari

Private Browsing turn on before browsing. It records nothing but cookies. Safari-->Private Browsing. You can erase cookies in Safari-->Preferences-->Security. -p716

Web Sharing

Personal Web Sharing

Put HTML documents, graphics and files at Home-->Sites folder
Open System Preferences; click Sharing. Turn on Personal Web Sharing.
Note your address i.e. http://111.222.3.44/~craigmaas/
You can also use the Mac's own web site i.e. http://111.222.3.44/ as administrator at Library-->WebServer-->Documents. Need to set permissions to 775 (Owner: Read & Write) (Group, Others: Read Only) -p742

Dynamic DNS sign up at DynDNS.org or No-IP.com you'll also need to download update client which keeps your IP address current. -p740

Troubleshooting

Repair Permissions Application-->Utilities-->Disk Utility. Click hard drive name. click repair permissions. -p770

Force Quit Control-click from dock; Apple Menu-->Force Quit; Activity Monitor in Applications-->Utilities. -p772

Craig Maas

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