Useful Tips Mac OSX Lion/Mountain Lion

[GrinningGSer]

Print a selection of screen:
cmnd-Shift-4 Creates a cross hair, draw selection and it automatically saves a png file to your desktop, which will open in Preview
Better still, Preview will automatically scale to print. Me likey a lot with mapping

 

[GrinningGSer]

Zooming mac mail

I am sure that what I say next may be well known to you mac guys, but its not obvious unless you search the net:
MacMail: to zoom so your aged eyes can read mail...
Opt CMD 8 turns zoom on, them CMD + to zoom
Opt CMD 8 turns zoom off again
It would be useful if the trackpad two finger thing allowed zooming like in Safari
Here is Apple''s complete list of keyboard shortcuts

 

[ymfb]

Print a selection of screen:
cmnd-Shift-4 Creates a cross hair, draw selection and it automatically saves a png file to your desktop, which will open in Preview
Better still, Preview will automatically scale to print. Me likey a lot with mapping

CMD-shft-3 is the same as above but complete screen shot

 

[cookie]

Print a selection of screen:
cmnd-Shift-4 Creates a cross hair, draw selection and it automatically saves a png file to your desktop, which will open in Preview
Better still, Preview will automatically scale to print. Me likey a lot with mapping

if you get GrabBox it will put those pics into your Public Folder on Dropbox*. from there, you can get a link to post them in forums etc. like this

you will have to manually open the pic in Preview though, if you want to print.

edit: i just found out that you need the latest version of dropbox is required for ML. more importantly, you ned to be an existing user of Dropbox, as they have just started dropping the Public Folder from new accounts