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TUAW Tip: Use Help to select menu items in Leopard

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Feb 8th, 2008

Over at Mac OS X Hints I recently ran into this doozy of a hint that I somehow missed on its first go around. Basically the idea is to capitalize on a great new feature in Leopard's help. You can get to any menu item without your mouse by activating the help menu with the keyboard shortcut ? + ? (i.e. ? + shift + /). Then type the name of the menu command you want and scroll down to it with the arrow keys. That command's menu will automatically drop down with the item highlighted, hit enter and you're done! If you're a keyboard maven this is a really easy way to get to your menu items (though you can also activate the menubar from the keyboard with ?F2).

Thanks Brandon!

Tags: Help, hint, menu, menubar, tip, trick

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cult of Mac, Apple, iPhone

Community goes extremely overboard on iPhone Extreme

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 2nd, 2007

Tom from iPhonebuglist.com was poking around in Apple's online feedback form, and as you can see above, he found something interesting hidden in the HTML code. There was a product tag on the form not for the iPhone, but for the "iPhone Extreme." The page has since been fixed, and there's no trace of it ever appearing.

We completely agree with Apple Insider on this one: it's a stretch to say this is anything more than a coder mixup. Still, there it is, right there (in a Windows window! Tom, how dare you!). Could it be a "sport" version of the iPhone? Or a home device designed to serve as a standalone, Mac-less dock for your iPhone on your Airport Extreme network?

Probably neither. I'm pretty sure a comment over at 9-to-5 Mac has it right (although the site themselves went way overboard, calling a February release on what is really an imaginary product): whoever coded the page just used the Airport Extreme template, and did a mass cut-and-paste with "iPhone" and "Airport." Amazing that the Mac community can get so worked up over what almost surely is simply a coder's mistake.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Tags: code, extreme, feedback, hint, iphone, iphone-extreme, mac-community, mistake, product

Filed under: Rumors, Software

Omni Group confirms OmniFocus, a GTD app in the works

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Sep 25th, 2006

The Omni Group has hinted at new products and teased us with a handy tool and toy. While 3rd party solutions have existed to turn their OmniOutliner Pro into a mean, lean Getting Things Done machine, the Omni Group has finally spilled the quintessential bean in a recent blog post and confirmed that a true-blue GTD app is in the works, and its name is OmniFocus.

However, I say the Omni gang spilled one bean - and one bean only - because they have twisted the cruel rumor knife ever so slightly by withholding any other details. No features, no clues, no ETA or price range. Not even a blurry icon. Cursed Omni Group! For now, it seems, you have forced us to suffer in your dungeon of anticipation! Our only salvation is your humbling generosity - some day - offering the warm sunlight of more details. Oh despair - thy name is OmniFocus!

Tags: blog, blogs, hint, hints, omni group, omnifocus, OmniGroup, product

Filed under: OS, Software, Productivity

macosxhints debuts hint-rating system

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jun 26th, 2006

The 'don't-buy-a-Mac-without-it' macosxhints.com has debuted a hint rating system, allowing both logged in and anonymous users to place a 1-5 star rating on each hint.

As you might expect, their stats page now includes a 'Top 20 Rated Hints' section at the bottom. This should allow you to spend even more time you never intended to, learning even cooler ways to use your Mac.

Tags: hint, hints, mac, macosxhints, os x, OsX, rate, rating, tip, tips

Filed under: Hardware, Software, Hacks, Tips and tricks

macosxhints gets redesigned

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 29th, 2006

The invaluable macosxhints has received a redesign and feature boost. The site's theme has received a stylistic bump, and legibility has improved site-wide. New functionality and features include more topic categories and a better search (while Rob won't use the term 'better', I will). Registered and logged in users will likely welcome simplified account management tools and more control over what information you include and display for others.

Head over and take a look at macosxhints' new look and add your $0.02 to their announcement post.

Tags: hardware, hint, hints, Mac, macosxhints, OS X, OsX, software, tip, tips, trick, tricks

Filed under: Software, Books and Blogs

The Omni Group hints at new product

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 28th, 2006

The Omni Group has begun hinting at a new product on their blog by offering clues on their blog as to what it is not. In posts like A trickling of inklings, they have let us know things like the product's sub-$20 price, that it is not a replacement for Mail and that it has nothing to do with the iPod. They also have plainly stated that they have other new products and updates for existing products planned for 2006. This should be good news for those of you who (like me) are fans of their excellent offerings like ~~OmniGiraffe~~ OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner. Here's hoping they don't keep us in suspense for too long.

Tags: app, application, apps, blog, hint, hints, Omni Group, Omni Mouth, OmniGraffle, OmniGroup, OmniMouth, OmniOutliner, products, software

Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Internet Tools

Safari trick: Email url's via the address bar

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Aug 9th, 2005

Here's a cool trick I was unaware of until today. Mac OS X Hints describes how to email a URL from within Safari's address bar. When you're at the website you'd like to share (like, say, this one), replace the address with "mail-link:" (minus the quotes) and hit return. A new message will be created in your default email client, with the site's title as the subject and URL in the body (as if you had selected "Mail Link to This Page" from the File menu). Cool. I've made "mail-link:" into a Safari bookmark, so now it's just a click away.

Anyone else know of some cool Safari tricks?

[Via MacIT.org]

Tags: hint, mail, safari, trick

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