Tips from MacMan

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Make a Window Larger

Having a hard time reading whats on your screen. Try this: Hold the control key and turn the scroll wheel on your mouse. All open windows will get bigger and its as though you are holding a magnifying glass up to the screen!

Moving to a New Mac

Leopard has made the process of moving your files, music, photos, and everything else, from your old mac to the new mac a breeze.

Connect the two Macs with a FireWire cable, then go to your new Mac and look inside the Applications folder, then go to the Utilities folder, where you’ll find an application called Migration Assistant.

Double-click on it and you will be lead through a series of screens with questions about what you want to do. Answer the questions and it’ll make the move (including copying your settings for things like email, bookmarks and more).

Download Sources

You can find out exactly where downloaded files came from bypressing Command-I when you have the file selected.

When the info dialog appears, click on the right-facing arrow beside More Info to expand that panel and it will display a Where from header, and to the right of that it will show the exact web address from which the file was originally downloaded.

Converting to Graphics

Want to change most any graphic into a Photoshop file? Just open the file in Preview, go under the File menu, and choose Save As…, where you can export your graphic in Photoshop format. But you’re not limited to Photoshop format — Preview will also export your file as a JPEG, PICT, BMP (for sharing files with PC users), PICT, Targa (for video), and more. If the format you’re saving in has options (such as quality and compression settings for JPEG and TIFF images), they will appear near the bottom of the dialog.

Saving iMovie Projects

When saving iMovie Projects to a external drive make sure that the drive is in Mac OS format. Saving a different file system can cause your project to become unusable by iMovie and corrupt!