Over at The Apple Blog, There is a good article and some real good comments about how to keep your hands on the keyboard to select the don’t save option when closing a document. The 1st comment by “Dave” says that if you hit the space bar when the dialog box comes up then what ever has the “blue glow” will be executed.

Check out the entire artical after the jump.

If you are like me and use your mac for just about everything and like to use the inspector to drive your applications (such as in iWeb) and would like to make changes to items but they are in different sections of the inspector window you can open up several of the inspector tabs in different windows by Pressing the option key and then clicking the tab.

I found this very interesting ten list over at My First Mac The author gives us some really nice tips of things we can use or macs for. I am putting number 4 and 9 in to action as we speak. Read the entice article below.

While looking for good stuff to bring you i found this at the mac osx hints blog …

Tether plastic caps to Apple’s laptop plugs

I like that Apple provides little caps for the various laptop cables, but I am always afraid of losing the caps. This is especially important for my Powerbook’s power supply cable. Since I throw the power supply in my bag, I was concerned that the prong (tip of the connector) would get damaged, so I use the …

After watching the keynote last night, I really only saw one feature that i really have to have from the new Mac OS. It is Stacks. I began investigating how i could make this work on my Mac running OS 10.4. I saw a tip on Lifehacker that got me started. (Lifehacker article) They explained how to put a folder on the doc and if you click and hold the folder you will get a list. I know, I know its …

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

Here at the New Mac User we have been toying with the notion to start the Shortcut – o – the day. We are going to run it for the next week and see what kind of responce we get.

Here is our first Key Board Short Cut
“Option – Command – esc”  To get the Force Quit Window.

Kirk McElhearn over at the Macworld: Mac OS X Hints website has posted an really good tip for sending an e-mail attachment very fast. This has to be one of tips i get into my work flow ASAP!!!! After the Jump you can read the Text of the article by Kirk.

Today while i was searching the net for more tips and tricks i cam across this time at “A New Mac Tip Every Day”. It tells us how to change the default icon on a file to make the icon better represent the content. The blogger tels us how to do it in word but the process is the same in any application. After the jump i have copied the text from the blog. If you want to ready …

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