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Instant Dictionary & Thesaurus Look Up

Posted on May 10, 2008 by pete

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 X already had built in Thesaurus (and Oxford Dictionary, … Continue reading →

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Maximize A Minimized Window.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by pete

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 window you are tabbing … Continue reading →

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Leopard Slickness.

Posted on February 29, 2008 by pete

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, hunting for that quick way to print, switch … Continue reading →

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Reformatting Text

Posted on February 22, 2008 by pete

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’ key is the squiggle … Continue reading →

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And the first hint is…

Posted on February 10, 2008 by pete

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” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’After that, type: killall … Continue reading →

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