Question:
How Can I Check to See If a Message I Receive is a Hoax?
Answer:
Sometimes our mailboxes get really
cluttered with forwarded messages about some sick or lost child,
chain letters that require us to send to 5-10 friends or something
terrible will happen, or notices of new viruses that will eat
our computers. Most of these are hoaxes or urban legends
and require no further action from us. Before we forward these
messages on to our friends, we need to check out their authenticity.
There are several sites that have already done the research and
have listed the scams, hoaxes, true and false viruses and urban
legends. If in doubt, go to:
- Question:
There is No Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) Header in the Version of Mail that Ships with Jaguar. Does Bcc Appear in Panther's Mail?
Answer:
Both Jaguar's Mail and Panther's Mail offer Bcc headers, but neither displays that header by default. To add it in Jaguar's Mail, create a new message and select Add Bcc Header (Command-Shift-B) from the Edit menu. In Panther, choose Bcc Header (Command-Option-B) from the View menu.
- Question:
Can I Close Multiple Open Windows at the Same Time?
Answer:
Don't waste time closing windows individually. Option-click the red close button at the top left of any open window, and all windows will close simultaneously.
- Find/Change Tip from Marlene Frey
When you copy/paste something like a webpage or e-mail, or copy/paste to Appleworks and don't want some of those big gaps, you can just figure out the number of spaces that are usually used in a gap, hit the space bar that number of times in the find box, leave change blank, click Change All and, voila, those big gaps are gone. There is another use for this tip. If you receive one of those e-mails with >>>>s included, copy the >>>s and then go to the Find/Change in the Edit Menu of AppleWorks, paste in the number of >>>s sent to you into the Find section, tab to the Change section and put the cursor there. Then select the Change All option. They will all disappear. You can then copy your message and send it to your friends without all the >>>s!
- Printing and Backing Up Your Address Book in OS X Mail
To Print:
Open Address Book. Go to to File>Print (Command-P)
Change Copies & Pages to Address Book
Select Email List (Print will show Phone List)
Print
To Back Up:
To make a backup copy of entire Address Book, go to Home>Library>Application Support>AddressBook
Copy to floppy, zip, external drive, CD, etc.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts won't help you much if you can't remember what they are, or if they don't exist for the commands you use most often. Panther lets you define your own keyboard shortcuts for almost any command in any application. In Keyboard Shortcuts, click on the plus-sign (+) button to add a new shortcut. In the resulting dialog box, select Finder from the Application menu and in the Menu Title field, enter the name of the command you want to assign a short to. Then decide what keyboard shortcut you'd like to use. The challenge is finding a shortcut that hasn't been assigned to something else. Once you've found an available shortcut, click on the Add button. Applications must be restarted before you can use their new keyboard shortcuts.
Tricks with the Left Corner Keys-
- Tab Key-
· Will move your cursor from one blank to the next in a
form, left to right and top to down.
· Hold Shift and Tab, the cursor moves back one space.
· Tab Key will also move/select from one icon to the next
on your desktop in Finder.
· And from one file in a window to the next one down. When
what you want is selected, use -O to open.
Caps Lock-
Obviously it changes lower case to caps. It can also show you
if your Mac is just lagging or has crashed. When you press it
and the light does not come on, you've got a problem. If it does
come on, the Mac is just lagging.
Shift Key-
Hold down while selecting multiple files to open or move all
at once.
Control Key-
· Hold it down while you place the cursor on an icon and
click on the mouse. A Pop-up menu opens. Try it on an application
icon, a folder, even the desktop.
· With +Control + Power Button, you force restart the Mac.
Option Key-
· Changes key symbols. Examplein Helvetica, Option
V makes. Use Key Caps to see other variations.
· Hold and click size box on a windowmakes it full
screen.
· With Command at startup, rebuilds the desktop (not necessary in OS X).
· With + esc, force quits an application.
· Hold while selecting Empty Trash - empties locked items.
· Hold while dragging icon to desktop. It makes a copy
of the file.
Command Key-
The most frequently used modifier key. Many of you use keyboard
shortcuts and know what + other keys will do. A side note on this. At a previous Lab, we had an older Mac running
OS 7.5 with a missing menu bar. Knowing that + I will open Get
Info, plus some other combinations helped us get some of the
necessary work done before we could correct the problem.
If, for some reason, we hadn't had a mouse, we could still have
done some of the work using + keys.
