Show Notes for
GreerMUG March 2007
Tim's Power Tips
Tim shows us a project his daughter made in Aperature.
And now, it's time for: Things that make you say, "Ahhh, I
didn't know that!"
Power Tip
#1
iTunes
How many os use iTunes on a regular basis? Many of us.
Searching - who knows about Power Search? Even in Power
Search Tim needs to get more precise. But did you know that
there is a one-click method to get to the Power Search
window? To go directly to the iTunes Music Store Advanced
Search window simply choose from the menu
bar "Store=>Search". Sweet.
Power Tip
#2
Finder
Tim opens a Finder window. If you click on the pill box you
can get rid of the sidebar. But did you know, that if you
right-click on the toolbar you get some different view
options? Oh, I see. AND, if you Command + Click on the
pillbox you can cycle through the view options? It's all
true.
Power Tip
#3
Copying a file from Finder window to Finder window
Have you ever needed to copy an item from one window to
another but you've got overlapping windows getting in the
way?
Use the Command key to click and move the window around so
you can drag your file easily between windows.
Power Tip
#4
Finder
From Apple's OS X tip site: Get Info
Does everyone know about Get Info? Command+i brings up the
Get Info window. Look at it - the file size is in TWO
different places. That's helpful. Get Info tells me a lot
about the file. But if I click on a different file, Get
Info doesn't follow me. Here's what you do:
Adding Option to Coomand and i (command+option+i) you can
select different files and the information window will
change to reflect the current file selected.
Power Tip
#5
Spotlight
Not everyone makes full use of Spotlight. Tim discovered,
while working with Switchers (those delightful folks who
have left the dark side of PC-dom), that Switchers think
Spotlight is just Search (as in search for a file). But
it's actually more - it goes beyond file names.
Spotlight can find things by name, but also by anything IN
the file. In the file? That's right, IN the file.
But what happens if what you remember isn't in the name of
the file, or you don't rememeber the file type? Hmmm, it
could get trickier finding something. Or not. Because
Spotlight searches much deeper than just the filename. Tim
wanted to find a file from a year ago and could only
remember that a town name was in this file. A town in Peru.
The name of the town wasn't in the filename, it was in the
file, on a map image, in a pdf file. Whoa. Tim showed this
to a friend. Friend was blown away. Another life-saving tip
from the Timster.
Spotlight will also search Windows servers which haven't
been indexed.
Question from Dick Palmer: Can you compare Spotlight to
Google Desktop?
Tim answers. It's the closest thing Windows has to
Spotlight. And it's by Google and not Microsoft.