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Found Footage: Snow Leopard hidden features, great video by a 16 year-old

by David Winograd Sep 5th 2009 at 5:00PM


Matt Fisher is a 16 year old high school junior and Apple enthusiast who has been putting up tutorial videos on all things Macintosh since December of 2008. I just saw one that is so good I wanted to bring it to your attention.

Matt has created a video on hidden features in Snow Leopard and although we have covered some of these before, this you have to see. In four minutes and twenty-nine seconds Matt covers more content than most people can cover in an hour, and he does it with grace and total clarity.

Matt found hidden features in:
  • Coverflow
  • Spotlight
  • Resizing of icons
  • Preview viewing modes
  • Hiding windows in dock icons
  • More organized keyboard shortcuts
  • Location based setting of time and date
  • Showing the date in the menubar
  • Stacks
  • Text and symbol substitution
  • The re-emergence of the trash 'put back' feature.
Take a look and I think you'll not only be impressed, but pick up a few things you didn't know.

Thanks go out to Mustafa Histoni for sending in this tip.

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Ray

Still can't believe I was suckered into this $30 useless upgrade

September 09 2009 at 10:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Mosqueda

How does it determine your Mac's location? I tried and it keeps thinking I'm in Black Forest, Colorado even though I'm in Southern Mississippi.

September 07 2009 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Emmess

Another extra feature I found today is in the print dialog window from any application. If you now choose to print 2 pages per page you now get an on-screen preview of the pages to be printed laid out on the single sheet - before all you got were two boxes denoting the pages. Very handy and certainly a lot more user friendly than the old print layout feature.

September 06 2009 at 5:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matteocuellar

If here were all so wise he wouldn't need a third-party app to record the screen. You can now do this with Quicktime X.

September 06 2009 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matthew

He sounds a bit like Mosspuppet in parts!

None of those features were really hidden though.

September 06 2009 at 8:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shane Hendricks

Good video. Not hidden features, however.

September 06 2009 at 8:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nergalicious

Specific find has been available since tiger, just use 'apple f' instead of the spotlight search field.

Force quit form the application icon in the dock has also been available since tiger

September 06 2009 at 5:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Flunky Carter

A "hidden" feature i've seen no one mention has to do with application expose, when you hold down an application's icon in the dock... it brings up that new black contextual menu... if you hold down the mouse, and the application comes up... hold down OPTION and you'll get a neat "force quit" and other options.

:-)

September 06 2009 at 1:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
shumanfu

Ok.. vid

But missed my fav feature.. the popping of expose from dock by clicking on dock icons for a few secs

September 05 2009 at 10:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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wheels

Or...My new favorite:

For an example, if you have multiple finder windows open, and you need to move/copy a file from the current window to a buried window, all you have to do is drag the file to the finder icon in the dock, hold it there until a simulated double click pops up expose, then drag the file to the window where you want to move it to, hold it there until another simulated double click brings the window to the front, and drop the file into the window.

That's just slick!

September 06 2009 at 12:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin

@iGlad "mealy mouthed naysayers" - well said!

September 05 2009 at 10:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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