Tips & Tricks

For any item on your Dock, whether its an application, stack or file, you can quickly locate it in Finder. To do this, press Command+Click and a Finder Window will pop up with its location.  Read More »

Sometimes, it may be necessary to switch between different versions of English (like Australian, British or US) or quickly change the language of the Spelling and Grammar check.  Read More »

A screenshot takes a picture of your screen or of a selected area. There are various ways to take screenshots in OS X. The screenshot however is usually saved as a TIFF file on the desktop.  Read More »

Just because you have a file open in Photoshop or Word or any other program, doesn’t mean you know where that file is saved on your hard drive.  Read More »

 Do you know the simple way to add accents, tildes, umlauts, and other non-English diacritical marks to your text document?  Read More »

In most cases, double-clicking a file on your Mac automatically opens it in the appropriate application.  Read More »

 Adobe’s PDF format offers a great way to save and send electronic documents, from formatted business letters to product brochures.  Read More »

The Character Palette has two great features that Quark’s and Adobe’s glyph palettes do not.  Read More »

The Character Palette can display every possible glyph.  Read More »

Fonts contain all sorts of characters — also called glyphs — that you may not actually be able to type on your keyboard, such as ornaments, fraction characters, and letters for foreign  Read More »