Photo Browser in Mail One possible fix for a Mac that won’t sleep its display
~MacOSXHints
A little while back i started noticing that my MacBook Pro’s display wasn’t going to sleep. My Energy Saver settings were configured to put the display to sleep after 15 minutes, but it wasn’t happening, even after hours of idle time.
After quite a bit of hunting and head scratching, I finally figured out what was going on. I’d been working on the website for my iPhone game (HexaLex), and I’d opened the Convertbot website in a Safari tab as a source of inspiration.
The Convertbot site has an embedded QuickTime movie demonstrating their user interface. It turns out that this QuickTime movie was preventing the display from sleeping, even though it wasn’t in the frontmost tab. Closing that tab solved the problem.
So if your Mac’s display isn’t sleeping, be sure to check your browser tabs for embedded movies!
Photo Browser in Mail
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
If you use iPhoto to store pictures, there’s no reason to launch iPhoto just to email one of the pics you have there. Just bring up the Photo Browser from the Window menu and you’ll have access to your entire library without iPhoto even being open. (thanks Macworld). You can also click the Photo Browser button on the New Message window. Probably more useful that way.
If you use iPhoto to store pictures, there’s no reason to launch iPhoto just to email one of the pics you have there. Just bring up the Photo Browser from the Window menu and you’ll have access to your entire library without iPhoto even being open. (thanks Macworld). You can also click the Photo Browser button on the New Message window. Probably more useful that way.
Use 10.5’s Help on Menu Items
~Mac Hints & Tips
One of the areas that received a lot of attention in OS X 10.5 is the Help system. Instead of simply opening a mini-browser for a given program’s help files, clicking “Help” now displays a drop-down menu with a search box and a list of key help topics. You can jump to a topic by selecting it from the menu, as you would with any other menu item. But the real power of the new Help system is in the search box; enter a search word or words, and help will search the program for information that what you’ve typed. But it doesn’t just search the program’s help files; it also searches the program’s menus.
In Safari, for instance, type “hid” and you’ll see the help menu now shows the various Hide options available in Safari’s menus, as well as entries related to hiding from the help file. Now for the nifty bit — you can execute any displayed menu command be clicking it with the mouse.
Alternatively, if you just want some help remembering where that menu command lives, either hover over (but don’t click) it with the mouse, or use the Down Arrow to highlight it. When you do, the Help system will show you the location of that command, along with a can’t-miss-it colorful arrow symbol pointing at that menu item — the arrow even shimmies around a bit to draw your eyes’ attention to the right spot.
Force Safari 4 to re-render a page
~MacOSX Hints
I’ve been having troubles with Safari 4 and rendering issues on my Mac. Pages will load fine, but then any little thing, such as scrolling, can cause display issues, as seen in the image at right (click it for the full-size version).
~MacOSX Hints
I’ve been having troubles with Safari 4 and rendering issues on my Mac. Pages will load fine, but then any little thing, such as scrolling, can cause display issues, as seen in the image at right (click it for the full-size version).
Instead of reloading the entire page, which can be a slow process depending on connection speed and page complexity, I use Safari 4’s Debug menu (Enable the Debug menu in Safari 4), which has a new Force Repaint command (Shift-Command-R). If the page can be rendered correctly, it will be done instantly, without waiting on a reload.
Use Send Again
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
It never fails. You send an email to a list of people and you forgot to send it to someone that needs it. You don’t have to start over. Just go to your Sent items, find the message and hit Send Again from the Message Menu. The message will come up as if you’ve never sent it and you can then readdress it to the contact or contacts that you want to send it to now.
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
It never fails. You send an email to a list of people and you forgot to send it to someone that needs it. You don’t have to start over. Just go to your Sent items, find the message and hit Send Again from the Message Menu. The message will come up as if you’ve never sent it and you can then readdress it to the contact or contacts that you want to send it to now.
Address Book Photos
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I’m a visual guy. It’s much quicker for me to identify a person by face than by name. My brain just works faster with images. So I go out of my way to make sure as many of my Contacts in Address Book have Contact Photos associated with them. This way not only does their picture come up when my iPhone rings, but it also appears to the right of the email that I get from them.
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I’m a visual guy. It’s much quicker for me to identify a person by face than by name. My brain just works faster with images. So I go out of my way to make sure as many of my Contacts in Address Book have Contact Photos associated with them. This way not only does their picture come up when my iPhone rings, but it also appears to the right of the email that I get from them.
Use Redirect
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I sometimes get emails that are more appropriate for someone else to handle at work. However, rather than forward the message, I want the message to go to the new person, but when they hit Reply I want the reply to automatically be addressed to the original sender. So I use Redirect instead of Forward.
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I sometimes get emails that are more appropriate for someone else to handle at work. However, rather than forward the message, I want the message to go to the new person, but when they hit Reply I want the reply to automatically be addressed to the original sender. So I use Redirect instead of Forward.
Use Address Book Groups
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I have several groups in Address Book. These come in handy to quickly get to a person or business that I want to call or a group of people that I want to email. So I just start typing the name of the group in the BCC field (yes do it there instead of To:) and the group comes up. I know that the email will go to all of those contacts.
~Terry White, MacGroup.org
I have several groups in Address Book. These come in handy to quickly get to a person or business that I want to call or a group of people that I want to email. So I just start typing the name of the group in the BCC field (yes do it there instead of To:) and the group comes up. I know that the email will go to all of those contacts.