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Add a recent documents stack item to your dock for quick access to all your recent documents.Open Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = {...
View ArticleReformatting Text
Every litigator (who does at least some of his or her own typing) should know the basics for copy and paste… “shift/alt/command v” to paste and match style vs. plain old “command v.” (FYI the ‘command’...
View ArticleLeopard Slickness.
In addition to Vista hate, Mac OS X Leopard’s new ‘help menu highlight’ feature makes switching so much more enticing for shortcut hounds. Where Tiger often left switchers poking around in menus,...
View ArticleMaximize A Minimized Window.
One of the frustrating things about switching was that doing the alt-tab thing didn’t work on Macs. First, you need to quit using the alt key and switch to the Command key (squiggle). Second, if the...
View ArticleInstant Dictionary & Thesaurus Look Up
Old Dog, Old Trick, New Trick A TUAW blogger recently posted about a ‘plug-in’ that provides the ‘missing’ thesaurus function on Leopard. Chuckling smugly with the self-satisfied knowledge that Mac OS...
View ArticleWidget Round-Up
On Mac OS X the ‘wow’ and ‘gee whiz’ factor of Widgets/Dashboard make part of the sale…. sorta like cupholders or a slot to hold your sunglasses in a new car. Widgets look really cool, the transition...
View ArticleSpotlight – The Advanced Course
Spotlight quickly finds folders, launches applications, jumps to contacts in address book all with a command-space keystroke and the first few letters of what you want to find/access. But, Spotlight...
View ArticleTextExpander and Signatures
MacSparky posted a slick little trick on how to use TextExpander to insert just the link (no http:\www.blahblah.com) in the signature line. Another nice trick with TextExpander is to use it to insert...
View ArticleHow-To Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in OS X
Quick tip on assigning keyboard shortcuts. Mac OS 10.6 allows the user to define keyboard shortcuts for virtually any of the menu items contained within applications. A prime example of this is that...
View ArticleCopied – Cross Platform Clipboard
Copy On Your iPad, Paste On Your Mac TranscriptPad (iOS only) is by far and away my favorite method of digesting depositions and other transcribed testimony. But, the heavy lifting often gets done on...
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