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Get Save As back on Mountain Lion's File menu easily and without hacks

by TJ Luoma (Jul 29th, 2012)

You can make the "Save As..." menu item more visible and easier to use simply by giving it a different keyboard shortcut. In 10.7 (Lion), Apple removed the 'Save As' menu item and replaced it with "Duplicate" which did not work the same way. Apple relented in 10.8 (Mountain Lion) by returning ...

Unsung Snow Leopard feature: multiple-language spell checker

by Chris Rawson (Sep 4th, 2009)

OS X has had a system-wide, built-in spell checker for a while now, but until Snow Leopard, it could only check the spelling of whatever your default language was. But what if you needed to prepare a document in another language, say for a college Spanish assignment? In that case, you'd end up with ...

Close brackets and braces easily with AutoPairs

by Dave Caolo (Mar 15th, 2006)

If you're the type that spends the day staring at a display and typing code, we'd bet you'd appreciate any utility that will make the process easier. Check out AutoPairs. It's a Mac OS X preference pane that closes your brackets, braces and quotes for you. Type a left bracket, for instance, and a ...