It sure makes it easy to find the folder you are seeking and it is very easy to use.
The app is called FolderBrander. You can find it at http://www.yellowmug.com/folderbrander/
A single user license is $9.95 and a family pack is $12.94. There are versions for OS 10.4 and later and for OS 10.3.
I'm really pleased to find out about this because I keep a lot of working folders on my desktop. You might want to check it out as well.
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( 2.9 / 52 )If you use a computer very long, sooner or later you will accidentally put an item in the trash that you didn't mean to throw away. Assuming you have not emptied the trash, you can get back.
It used to be the case that the only way you could retrieve it would be to click on the trash can to open it, search for the item, and then drag it back onto your desktop or back into a specific folder.
With Snow Leopard there is a somewhat faster way.
Right-click on the item and select "Put Back" from the contextual menu. The file will return to the where it was before you threw it away.
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( 2.9 / 115 )One of the really cool things about the Mac operating system is the ability to deal with a frozen application without the need to shut down your whole computer. In all the latest versions of the OS you can select the Apple Menu > Force Quit and highlight the frozen application and click the Force Quit button.
In Snow Leopard there is an even quicker way to Force Quit a frozen app. In the Dock click option-click on the application icon and one of your options will be Force Quit. Select it and the application will quit.
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( 2.9 / 101 )One of the things I have to do as president of our local Mac users group is make a slide show once a month for our general meeting. As part of that show I like to feature our board members in recognition of all the hard work they do. I do it with a slide show of their pictures. For this new year I decided to add their names to the photos so that visitors could put a name with a face.
I decided to do this because it is so easy to do with the new annotate feature in Preview.
Open your document in Preview. I keep Preview in my Dock because I use it all the time, so I just drag a document over the Preview icon in my document to open it. If you don't have Preview in your Dock you can right click on the picture and select "Open document with" and choose Preview.
Once the document is open choose "Annotate" from the Tools menu.
Across the bottom are all your regular options. If you are working with a pdf document there are additional options like adding a link or a note.
To add the name to good ol' Steve's picture I choose the add text icon and drew a box where I wanted the text to go. To choose the font and font size I clicked on the "Aa" and to select the color I clicked on the color block.
The finished product looks like this. The whole process takes a minute at most.
This has all kinds of uses, particularly the ability to add arrows to pictures and maps.
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( 3.2 / 82 )I received a really good question today from a beginner friend of mine. She has a favorite application that she uses and she wants to give a copy of that application to another Mac user as a Christmas present.
The application can only be purchased through the Internet as a download.
My friend wanted to know if she could purchase the software license, download it to her computer and then burn the installation icon to a CD or a thumb drive and give it to her friend in that format.
The answer is maybe, but probably not. The primary problem is that software registration is usually tied to an email address -- it's often
impossible to register different email addresses for payment and user.
Your safest bet, and one you can complete right up to Christmas Eve, is to buy a Visa Gift Card for the exact amount of the software and present it in a card along with the name of the software you are gifting and the URL for the download.
You, of course, can use this same method to gift iPhone applications. You can buy iTunes gift cards at Apple stores for as little as $10 each, or you can buy the Visa Gift Card which can be applied to the users account for purchases.
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