Applications

Have you ever been editing some text and needed to select different sections of it at the same time?

Many people know how to SELECT ALL or Highlight one sentence or paragraph of contiguous text. Did you know that in many Cocoa based Mac OS X programs you can select different sections of text at the same time.

Here is how to do it:

Open up a document that you want to edit. I am using TextEdit in this example.

Click and Drag over the first portion of text to select it. Then then hold down the Command key and then select the next portion you want to select. READ MORE »

Do you ever need quick access to some of your running application's features, but don't want to open the the full window to access them? On some apps, you can access some of it's available features from the dock. The program must be running to do this.
I am showing you with iTunes, but most programs support this, you just need to play around with it, and see what each app supports.

Here is how: READ MORE »