lifehacker.com — Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac which make it super useful and fun. We've covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we're highlighting ten lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard.
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Closed AccountMay 15, 2008
It's interesting how anyone who accuses someone else of being elitest gets accused of being elitest for judging them.
rigotloMay 16, 2008
Mac Mini = 600€MacBook = 1000€iMac = 1000€I'm 13 and have a MacBook, it's cheap compared to other computers + it has Mac OS X!
atticus8May 17, 2008
I just want to back this concept up. This eternal Mac vs. PC war.... it's for the birds. I want no part of it. (Don't get me started on Nintendo vs. Sony vs. whogivesas**t) However, it is true that every mac user I know well - there are no exceptions unless they are just acquaintances - used a PC for a very long time before switching to macs. I am 26 years old. I've always been, am, and will be a tech-nut. I used PCs exclusively until I was 21, but every computer I've bought since then has been a Mac. They fit me better, I enjoy "all the little things". I don't know what the war is about, because we should be celebrating the ability to have extra choices. s**t, I wish there was a fourth "branch", beyond Linux / Mac / PC, just to have more options. I sure as s**t wish there were more ISP choices in my area, for instance. I'm sure that would help every consumer 'round here.Either way, my main "workstation" comp is what I consider a true best-of-all-worlds situation (and makes me happy both exist): Hackintosh tower, so it's infinitely modifiable, got OS X on there for the primary, and Parallels 3.0 with Windows XtremelyPirated for anything I need on the side. Sadly, no Windows on the Boot Camp (can't get the hacked Mac to recognize a native Win boot), but I WISH it were so. People have already told me to use a separate hard drive, for some reason it doesn't work.However, that part about Windows people not having used OS X is not quite true. It might be mainly true, but there are significant exceptions. For instance, a heavy PC gamer doesn't have to use OS X for very long to realize that he simply won't feel right on an OS X-only comp. Jeez, does anyone remember Doom 3 pre-patched on the Mac? My machine is an absolute beast, and yet I think I could have had my old Tandy run Doom 3 faster than my comp could before the EXTENSIVE patching required to get it to run decently.
justreallygoodMay 19, 2008
OS X comes with built-in screen capture <a class="user" href="http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screenshot.html">http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screen ...</a>
colincornabyMay 19, 2008
: right clicks on his Mac :Yep, seems to work.
rogeriogalJun 7, 2008
Errr, Preview.app? The reason of the complaint about Paint on Windows like app for the Mac is that when you press the prnt-scrn the image goes to the clipboard and you need paint to turn it to a JPEG or whatever. In Mac the screenshot is saved as a file. Even if Mac did it the dumb Windows way, Preview.app can use any clipboard image and create a "New from clipboard..." document which you can save, just like M$ Pain-t.