Lauren Goode takes you on a detailed walk through your options. Good article. Lots of detail.
Tip
iPhone power button tips
Great tip. I knew that tapping the power button on an incoming call silenced the ringer. I did NOT know that a double-tap sent the call directly to voicemail. And one more: tap the power button to lock the screen. Nice.
Your Mac’s built-in screen recorder
Not sure when this feature got added, but since this was new to me, thought this was worth sharing.
Launch QuickTime Player (it’s in your Applications folder). Now select New Screen Recording from the File menu, or type control-command-N.
Finding your energy hog apps in Mavericks
There’s lots of good stuff in the attached article, but here’s a nugget for folks running Mavericks on a laptop.
Finding the best wi-fi channel using Apple’s Wireless Diagnostics utility
Was trying to do a little tune-up on my wi-fi network, ran across this helpful article. I did not know there was a built-in wi-fi diagnostic tool.
Adding items to the Finder sidebar
Though this is likely old hat to many of you, I thought this was worth passing along for folks new to Mavericks or to the sidebar.
Before Mavericks, to add a file to the Finder sidebar, you simply dragged it over and released it. Easy to remember, easy to perform. The down side was accidentally adding items to the sidebar. Not a big problem, but it’s happened to me.
With Mavericks, Apple changed the way this works. If you drag a file to the sidebar, you can drop it into a folder stored in the sidebar, but releasing the file won’t add it to the sidebar itself.
How to download a file when all you have is a URL
Nice little Mac tip. Here’s one way to download an audio or video file when all you have is the URL.
Customizing your OS X sidebar
Here’s a nice little article by Kirk McElhearn on customizing your OS X sidebar.
Copy text from the Finder’s Quick Look preview
If you select a file in the Finder, then hit the space bar, the Finder will pop up a window displaying the contents of the file, known as a Quick Look preview. Not every app supports Quick Look, but most do.
By default, the Finder does not allow you to copy text from a Quick Look. Turns out there’s a setting you can tweak to enable text copy.