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If you have any tips you would like added to this list to help others, please send them to me. These tips and treats are being put together to help other Macintosh users.
I have tested the majority of these tips out on my 233mhz Desktop G3 with two partitions and running
system 10.2.8 and 9.1.
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Have fun and don't forget to send in that tip.
Email Mike


'Address Book Group'
Here is how to create a Group within your address book:
Open up your Address book and click on, from the File menu, New Group. A new group will appear under the Group list on your left called Group Name. From the Edit menu click on Re name Group and give it a name you want. The name you type must have no spaces, if you want a space type _. So a group name of My Friends, you would type as My_Friends.
To add to this group, click on the group "All", then just drag from this group to your new made group.
See: Email Blind Group.


'Address Book Pictures'
To place pictures in your address book you first must create pictures for insertion. The picture can be in JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, or PDF format. For best results, choose a picture that is 64 x 64 pixels in size. Use a graphics editing program, such as AppleWorks or iPhoto, to resize or crop the image to the suggested size. A picture not of these sizes will be resized by your address book. Once you have created your pictures, open up your address book and click on where you see the picture will go and scroll through to where you have your pictures stored. Just double click on the picture to insert. You can also if you wish just drag the picture into the picture frame.
See also Email with picture.

'Address Book Remove Picture'
If you want to remove a picture from your address book. Open up the address book card of the person you want to remove the picture from. Now go to the menu Card and select Clear Custom Image.

'AppleWorks'
You want to send an attachment to a Windows user but they can not read an AppleWorks document. What do you do?? You can either copy and paste into a Word document, save as a Word document, or as I prefer, you can send as a .PDF document.
To create a .PDF document from AppleWorks, with your document open, go to print from the File menu and click on to save as .PDF. It is that simple.
Doing it this way will protect you from sending a Microsoft virus to your Windows friends.

'CD Ejecting'

If you want an Eject icon in your Menu Bar:
Go to Hard Drive/System Folder/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras. Now double click on Eject.menu and you'll see an Eject icon appear in your Menu Bar.
I find this handy when you can't find the CD to eject or the trash can to place it in.
You can of course use the top right hand key on your keyboard to eject a CD.
If you want to get rid of the icon in the menu bar, just hold down the Command Key and drag it off the toolbar.


 

'Command Key'
If you want to select various files from a folder for any reason, hold down your Command key and you will highlight all the files you have chosen. You can then move them all at the same time.


'Control Key'
Before you click on a file or folder hold down your Control key to get a menu of various shortcut options.

'Desktop Pictures'
To have a picture on your desktop, open up your system preferences and click on Desktop.
If you are like me you will have a folder with all your photos in. In the preferences click on to find your collection of pictures folder. You will now have all your pictures from that folder showing. Just click on the one you want on your desktop and it will show in the top panel. At the bottom of this panel you can select to have a picture change at any given time.

'Digital Camera Transfers'
Image Capture
If you click on your Go menu and then Applications, you will find in here Image Capture.
In here you can set what folder you want to upload your photos to and what if any application you want to use for viewing and editing your photos with. Once you have your camera connected you can then click on to upload all photos or any individual photos. You will have a screen with all your photos showing what you have on your camera. In your Image Capture programme you can in your preferences set it to either remove the photos from your camera as they are uploaded or to leave them there.
I have set mine to upload to my Digital upload folder, which I have created within my system 9 partition and
iphoto to edit them with. Before I import them into iphoto I find it best to change the name of the files to what you want them called. Once uploaded I open up iphoto and then import from my Digital upload folder into iphoto. To select more than one photo to import hold down your command key while selecting. Once this is done you can either delete off from your Digital upload folder ready for your next upload, or save them to another folder to keep the originals.
'Dock'
The docs is probably one of the first things you should set up before you do much else. I see so many of you with everything on the dock and a mile long. I did this to start with, but then found this very hard to catch the programme I wanted before it flashed by.
To set up your dock:
Open your system preferences. You will probable find this either on your dock already, or if not you can open it from your Apple menu and once open click on dock. In here you can set various things such as where you want the dock to be and whether visible or not. I have mine set as invisible, with no magnification and at the bottom of my screen. Have a play in here to suit your preference.
Here is how I set up my dock:
I first created a new folder on my desktop and called it Applications on Dock. Within this folder I created other folders, such as Games, programmes, Internet, Personal and so on. This is the same as my tip with system 9 called Desktop.
To place an alias into these folders:
Go to your Go menu and choose the application you want in your dock and drag it to the folder you have created that you want it in. Before you drop it in the folder, hold down your Option and Command key. This will make an alias of the application. You can drag into these folders application from your system 9 partition also if you have your hard drive partitioned. Don't forget to put aliases only in these folders.
To Place onto your Dock:
Just drag the complete folder you have created called Applications on dock down onto the right hand side of your dock, next to and to the left of the trash can. The folder still on your desktop, now drag and place in your Users folder + Documents.
Open your Dock:
Anything to the left of your new folder you can drag to the desktop and it will vanish. To open an application now from your new made folder on your dock, hold down your Control, Option, or Command key and click on your folder. You can also just hold your mouse down on the folder for it to open. This will bring up a menu of what you have in that folder. The type of folder depends on the key you held down while clicking. Just click on the application you want to open and it will be placed on the left of your dock.
It is handy to keep some items permanently on the dock and to do this with the application active, hold down your Control key while you click on an application in your dock and choose to Keep in Dock. Or once again just hold your mouse down over the application.


'Drag'
When dragging a file or folder to another place keep an eye on whether what you are dragging has an arrow up, a + or nothing showing. An arrow up will create an alias, a + will create a duplicate and if nothing showing will just move the file to another location. To change to what you want depends on the circumstances, but try using the Option and Command keys, either or, or both. Try it and see.

'Email Activity'
Using your Mail Application.
I find it frustrating when an email is being downloaded and it just keeps churning away.
You can see what is going on and how much is left to download if you go to your Mail menu and click on Window and then Activity Viewer. You can place this at the top of your screen to keep an account of what is going on. Or just click on the keys Command + 0 when required to show or hide the activity.

'Email at Your Server'
Using your Mail Application.
If you want to change how long your server holds onto your email before they delete them, go to your Mail preferences and click on Accounts and then Edit. Now click on Advanced and in here you can nominate how long your server holds onto your email after you have downloaded them to your computer.

'Email Blind Group'
Using your Mail Application.
To send to a group so their addresses are not seen, go to your preferences of Mail and click on Composing. In here remove the tick against "When sending to a group show all member addresses". Now to send click on Compose and then click on your address book in the menu bar and choose the group you want to send to and then click on "To". Close down the address book and you will see you have addressed your email to the group name.
See: Address Book Group.

'Email Group'
If you want to send to a group of people, first you must create a Group in your address book.
See: Address Book Group.

'Email Picture Sending'
Using your Mail Application.
If you want to have your picture showing on any emails you send, both you and the receiver has to be using the system 10 Mail application, together with the application named MailPictures. See my tip:
Email with Picture.
Send your picture to your web site and place it in a folder called mailpicture. The name of your picture must be of your email address without any extensions.
Open up your mail application and click on the preferences. Now click on the Mail Pictures button. In here tick to Enable Mail Pictures and below this scroll to, My Own Web Server. Below this where it says Base URL type in your full web address where the folder containing your picture resides. Your web address would look something like this: http://www.my server.co.nz/my_home_page/mailpicture/. Below this where it asks for the name of your picture just type in your email address. Now go to Advanced and place a tick in to Show Options in Compose Window. You can come back to this window to add anything else later. Now go back to Basic and connect to the internet and then click on to Check. Another panel will come up to check your URL, click on check again and wait a few moments while a search is made for your picture. If you have everything set up correctly your picture will show in the panel provided and you can just click on Done. If you do not get a picture showing then try, try, try again from the beginning. You will notice that when you go to compose an email now, your compose window would have changed, allowing you to either send or not send a picture with your email.

'Email Text Too Small'
If you have problems with email that you have received being in too smaller text, try this:
Hold down your Command / Shift / + keys.
To reduce the size use the Command / - keys.
See also: Magnify.

'Email With Picture'
Using your Mail Application
I find it very handy to have a picture showing in the header of each email that you receive of the person sending you the email. This can be handy instead of in some cases just seeing an email address and name from someone you do not recognize. To do this you first must insert a picture into your address book of all your contacts. The picture does not have to be of the person, but a picture that you can recognize to belong to that person or group.
Now to have the picture you have inserted into your address book showing on incoming email, you have to install a little application called MailPictures which you can download free from:
http://www.nikwest.de/Software/
Be careful to download the application to suit your version of system 10. Once you have downloaded the application, open up the folder and click on to install. This will place a folder called Bundles in your Mail folder, in your user name Library. It is a good idea once you have installed to restart your computer.
Note: I have found that not all emails will come through with a picture showing, although you have placed a picture in your address book.
None of your pictures at this stage will be forwarded with any emails that you send. To have your picture included with emails that you send your computer has to be programmed to do this.
See: Email Picture Sending.
If someone has this facility on their computer their picture will over ride any picture that you may had placed in your address book.
See Address Book Pictures. and also Email Picture Sending.

'Faxes'
Sending
To send a fax
In your address book have the fax number listed against those with faxes. Type your fax and save in a folder called Faxes in your Home folder. Youwill find this Home folder under the Go menu. Click on print in your file menu, then click on fax. Your machine will dial up the fax number and place a modem icon in your dock. By clicking on this modem icon you can see the progress of your fax. When your fax has been sent the modem icon will get removed from your dock and your phone will be disconnected.

 

'Folders'
When you click on a folder to open it, you can have the previous stay open or close. Go to the Finder menu and then Preferences. In here you can adjust various things including whether to have your folders stay open or not. If you tick Always open folders in new window, then your folders will stay open.


'Force Quitting'
At some stage you may need to force Quit a programme. Maybe it is behaving badly or frozen up. To force quit hold down your Command - Option - ESC keys. This will bring up a menu asking you what application you want to force quit. Just select the application you want to quit and click on the force quit button.


'Grab'
You will find Grab in your Utilities folder within your Applications folder.
If you want to take a snapshot of part of your screen. From the menu bar choose Capture and then Selection. Now just scroll over what you want in the picture. The saved picture will be in the format of tiff.
To change the format, open up Preview and from the file menu open up the saved Grab picture. Now from the File menu again, choose Export and change to the format to what you require.
Other features are also available in Grab.

'iphoto'
With iphoto you can create albums for particular type photos. Just drag the photo you want into the album from the photo library. Any photos in an album is an alias of those in the library. Any changes you make will change the original in the library.
Although the originals are kept deep down in the bowls of you computer, I find it is a good idea to keep all original photos in another folder some where for easy access.

To create an album:
From the File menu click on to make an album and give it a name.
Photos within your library you can create a title for the photo. Select the photo and to the left where it says Title, just change it to the name you want the picture called.

To import photos:
from your Digital upload folder or any where else to place in your library: From the File menu just click on Import and select where your photo is. You can not select to Import from the bottom Import button. This is used only for importing from your camera.
All photos in your library have two names, a file name and a title name.

To change the title name:
Select title to the left of the screen and change.
To change the file name:
It is easiest to give the file a name before you import into iphoto. If already in iphoto, to change it's file name just drag to your desktop, change it's name and then drag back into iphoto. You will have to delete off the original.
See: Digital Camera Transfers

'iphoto Movies'
To create a quicktime movie using iphoto
Create an album that contains all the photos you want in the movie. Click on one of the photos and then from the Edit menu click on to select all. Now at the bottom left you will see a thing called Slide Show. Click on it and a panel will come up where you can choose the options you want. In here if you select Music you can choose from a couple of supplied pieces of music. If you have itunes version 3 or higher installed on your computer, then you can choose from any music you have in your itunes library. Where is says Sample music, click the arrow and then click on itunes library. If you are only running itunes 2 then click here to get version 4.
Once you have set all your preferences in this panel click on to play slide show. Just click on the screen to stop the slide show and if happy with your creation, from the File menu click on Export. In the panel that you now see select where you want to save the movie, the length of time you want each picture frame showing, the colour you want the background and whether you want the music or not that you have selected to play.

'iTunes Moving Music'
If anyone is interested in shifting their iTunes music to another partition to save some room on their system 10 partition, here is how I did it.
First create a folder on your 9 partition side and give it a name of say iTunes.
Now open iTunes and go to the preferences and click on Advanced. In here click on Change and scroll through to find the folder you created in your 9 partition named iTunes. From now on all music you add to your library will go into this new folder in your 9 partition.
The music you already have on your 10 side will stay where it is.
You have two options of how to shift your existing music to your new folder if you find it necessary to do so.
Firstly, you can delete off all your tunes and then re-add the tunes to iTunes.
Secondly, you can open up both folders of iTunes and transfer across from 10 to 9 partition. Don't forget to trash the tunes from your 10 side. Now when you open iTunes and try to play tunes that you have transferred across you will get the notice that the tune can not be found and you will be asked to locate it. Just scroll though to your new made iTunes folder to find it.
You will find that your iphoto will be able to play music from your 9 partition now when you create a slide show.

'Magnify'
To Magnify your screen, go to your system preferences and open up Universal Access. Click on Seeing. In here where it says turn on zoom, click on it and it will change to, Turn off Zoom.
Now to zoom your screen hold down Command / Option / +.
To reduce the zoom hold down Command / Option / -.
See also: Email Text Too Small.

'Menu Bar'
In your menu bar you may have put your clock, sound, Screen Resolution and Internet Connect. When opening applications that also have a number of menu's, such as your browser. You may loose one of those you have placed there through lack of room. Did you know you can sort their order which they appear by holding down your Command key and shifting further to the left or right. I find this handy to have my Internet icon far to the right so I can always see if I am on line or not.

'Picture Viewer'
You may have a number of photos which you have saved using different applications. When you click on them to open them, it will first open the Application that created them. To have them open in an Application of your preference: Click once on their icon and go to, under your File menu, Get Info. In here you can choose to have them open using an Application of your choice.

'Quick Image'
I find this is a brilliant little application for putting a picture image on your icons. With the application Preview there are no pictures on the icons, but with this application you can have a picture showing on your icons. You can select all your Preview icons and then have Quick Image place a picture on all of them with just a click of your mouse. If you are like me and try only running system 10 and then when you click on a photo that was created with a system 9 application you open up your system 9. With the use of Quick Image you can view and edit your photos within system 10 and without opening any other application. You can download Quick Image from http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19253

'Quitting an Application'
Hold down your Command key and click on your Tab key, this will open your dock. Each time you click on your Tab key, while holding down your Command key each application you have open will highlight. To quit an open application, while the application is highlighted in the dock, instead of clicking the Tab key hit the Q key. The programme will quit.
Command Tab is handy to see what you have open in the dock also.
If you want to make active an open application in the dock. Instead of hitting Q to quit, just release the Command key when the application you want is highlighted.

'Saving'
When saving: as in system 9 always save to one folder only. If you have two partitions, one for system 9, this will probably be the larger of your partitions, then this is where you should save to.
Saving to system 9 partition:
On your system 9 side you will already have a folder that is put aside for all your documents and files you have saved. Mine is called Personal. Just make an alias of this complete folder and place in your system 10 Users Documents folder. Now from system 10 if you want to save just click on your Documents folder in the save box and open up your folder you have placed there and save. I find this is quicker than scrolling through all your folders in system 9 to find the folder that holds all your saved files. Saving to your larger system 9 partition will also keep free space in your system 10 partition.

'Scroll Arrows'
To adjust whether you want your scroll arrows both at the bottom, or one at the top and one at the bottom.
Go to your apple menu + System Preferences and then General. Place a tick on your preference.


'Show Info'
Depending on the System version you are using, this may be shown as Get Info. You will find this in your File menu.
Shortcut to Show info is Command I.
In here you can find the size of the file, when it was created and modified. The application it is and others.
Check it out.

'Snap Shot'
If you want to take a snap shot of part of your screen use the Utilities application called Grab.
See: Grab.

'Startup'
When you start up I find it best to start up both systems. To do this. Go to your system preferences and open up Classic. In here highlight system 9 and put a tick in the Start up Classic on Login box. To start up from system 9 only, hold down your Option key while starting.

'Shutdown'
If you want to close system 9 while system 10 is also running, go to your system preferences and choose Classic. In here you can either shut down system 9 or restart it. In here it will also show if system 9 is running or not.

'Tool Bar'
To customize your tool bar, open up one of your folders and then go to View - Customize Tool Bar.
In here just drag to or from the tool bar the selection you require.

'Trash It'
Sometimes you may have an application you wish to trash but you get the notice that it is locked and can not be trashed. Even though you have clicked on the item and gone to get info you still can not unlock it. I have found that if you transfer the item to your system 9 desktop folder and then restart system 9 only, you can then open up the folder and from the get info unlock the application and then trash.

'View Options'
You will find this in your view menu.
Shortcut to view options is Command + J
In here you can change the icon size plus other features.
Check it out.

 

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