Mac Quick Tips

When you open a file, an application launches along with it, but it may not be the application you want to associate with the file. In this tip, we’ll show you how to manage these file associations.

While browsing through your email messages, you may wish to create a To-Do item for yourself. Leopard brings enhancements to Mail that make this an easy task. Watch and see.

Have you ever closed a Safari browser window with multiple open tabs? If you’d like to return back to the same tabs, this tip will show you how.

Reorder, rotate, extract and insert pages in PDFs using the latest enhancements to Preview in Leopard. Check it out.

It’s easy to launch the Google Map for any address in Address Book to plan your route for your meeting. Here’s how.

Have a file that’s too large to send over email? Send the file to your colleagues wirelessly using Bonjour, built right into iChat. See how it’s done.

In an email message, Mail automatically detects text fragments like appointments, addresses and time-sensitive information. With a click, you can create a new contact, map an address, or create an iCal event, without leaving Mail.

Creating slides from images in Keynote, is drag-and-drop fast. Check it out.

If you’re using a shared Mac computer to check on personal or private information online, you may not want Safari to save information about your page history or transactions. Check out how to browse the web in private.

Shapes are easy to create in Pages and Keynote. If you want even more control of how your document’s shapes are created, check this out.

If you have a Mac portable, you’ll be happy to know that you can use the delete key to delete both backwards and forwards from the cursor position. See how.

With Keynote or Pages, you can replace old images with new ones that keep the same border, shadow or opacity settings that you applied previously. Check it out.

Save a tree (and some dollars too). Learn print options for your Keynote presentations that can reduce over-use of ink and paper.

If you need to send out a letter to multiple people in your Address Book, Pages and Mac OS X make the process simple and fast.

Zooming in and out of your Excel spreadsheet or Word document is fast with a scroll wheel or scrolling trackpad. See how it’s done.