This is such a great tip, I just found out about it myself and I was so excited when I first used it. Many widgets keep old information and they don’t always update the way they should. I have experienced this a lot with the ESPN widget included with Mac OS X: old hockey match didn’t go away and new one were not up to date. Another example is you enter information into the yellow page widget and you wish you could just erase it with a simple click. The best is it works with all widgets! You just have to click on the desired widget, hit command-R and Boom! I really mainly use the stock widgets, quicken widget and date widget, however, this is a nice little piece of info that would help with yellow page and others.
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You can easily take a screenshot in OS X with a few simple keystokes:
“shift-command-3″ will capture the whole screen and save the file on the desktop.
“shift-command-4″ will capture the area you select with the cursor after pressing the keys and the file will be saved on the desktop.
You can also hold “ctrl” when taking the screenshot to place the file in the clipboard instead of saving it on the desktop.
These simple but very useful features are actually one of the things i love most about my new mac. You can basically get a picture of anything online without having access to the actual picture.
This is something i just learned on my mac so I figured I would share it. This could very well be information most everyone knows, however, I didn’t so i am sure some of you out there could use it. Like I have said before, I just recently bought a mac and this is a learning experience for me. When you start your computer there are always programs that are automatically running. On a regular PC, you can go to a couple of different places to edit these. On a Mac you simply go to System Preferences, Accounts Pane. If you use quicksilver just begin typing accpane and it will pop up. (more…)