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If you have multiple accounts on your Mac, you may have a need to share a file with all of the user accounts on your Mac. Mac OS X offers several ways to do it, but I think the SHARED folder is the easiest. It gives all users READ/WRITE privileges to it, so you can easily collaborate.

How to do it:

1. Open Macintosh HD

2. Open the Users folder. READ MORE »

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If you are a new Mac user you may not know many of the ways to Quit applications on the Mac. There are multiple ways to do it... and I'll step you through a few.

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Use the Menu Bar

Go to the Menu bar of the selected application and choose Quit. It's usually under the first menu, to the Right side of the Apple menu. READ MORE »

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Sometimes you may have a file that you want to open with a program besides it's default. For example, if you have Photoshop on your system, it may very well associate itself with all of your images, and when you double click on a file, it opens it up in Photoshop.

Well as we all know, Photoshop takes a long time to load just to peek at a JPEG. The solution is to use a more lightweight and faster program. For example, I may want to use Preview to open my JPEG file. READ MORE »

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Burning files and folders on the Mac is very easy. There are several ways to do it, but if you just need to quickly burn some items to disc, here is a quick and easy way.

How to do it:

1. Use the Finder and navigate to the folder or file you would like to burn. Once you have found it, click on it one time to select it. If you have multiple items, hold down COMMAND and click on each individual file or folder. READ MORE »

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Icons can get pretty messy in the Icon view. However, it's simple to clean them up.

How to do it:

1. Open a Finder window. Press COMMAND-1 or click the ICON view icon

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Using the new Quick Look feature in OS X Leopard, you can save tons of time finding the correct file. However, most people use it like this: Quick Look a file, exit quick look view, then double click the file to launch it in the associated application. While this is easy to do... it's much easier to simply do this READ MORE »

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Have you ever known the command you needed, but couldn't locate it on the help menu? Some menus are so vast that you can quickly overlook the item you need. Luckily, Mac OS X Leopard has a really cool new feature integrated into the HELP menu, with a little help with Spotlight.

How to use it:

1. Go to the Help menu, and start typing in the command you are looking for into the Spotlight search. READ MORE »