If you have ever had an Application lock up on you in OS X and had to force quit it you know that normally you would go to the apple in the upper right and select the force quit menu. Here is away to speed up the process. If you hold down the shift key after you hit the apple the option to force quit the active Application will appear and you can force quit from there. You can also …

While you can add items to the favorites folder in Finder with Cmd-Shift-T, there’s no easy way to get to it, or, any indication of where it is. To start off, the favorites folder is at (Your_Home_Folder)/Library/Favorites/. Now, you can add aliases to that folder by simply selecting a file/folder and hitting Cmd-Shift-T.

With this in mind, you could add the favorites folder to the dock, or, to the sidebar.

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The answer is an outstanding YES!!! And it could not be easier to do. As you already know if you try to use Quick Look on a folder all you will get is a picture of the folder icon with no useful information. What if I told you that you could see the entire contents of the folder using quick look and all you would have to do is download this file un zip it and put the “Folder.qlgenerator” …

As I said in my earlier post, you can use Command (⌘) Click on a link to open a new tab in Safari. Did you know that the same is true in Finder? If you need to have an item open up a Second finder window you can Command (⌘) Click the File, Folder, or item and a new Finder window will open.

I found this over a TUAW.com. I love little tricks like this. They make us so much more productive.

As I told you in an earlier post i am trying to better organize my Mac. I found this little tip to make a Smart Folder to access your most recent applications. I have mine set for 3 days but you could use what ever.

I have been noticing lately that I have been trying to get my folders and files better organized. While trying to find an easy access method to my better organized folder system I came across this tip from Mac OSX hints.

I found this tip over at “The Apple Blog“. It is about the stuff at the top of the finder window. The text of the post is below but if you want to screen cast follow the link. Quick Tip: Window Title Bar Icon.

In the finder use Command + either 1, 2, or 3 to switch between the icon, list, or column views.

Parent Folder allows you to have a “one folder up” button in the Finder just like the one in Windows Explorer

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