snow leopard点滴

some are from  http://www.libertypages.com/clarktech/

1.Sound Menu

Option click the sound icon in the menu bar to get a list of input and output devices.

 

2

Battery Menu

Option click gives the numeric battery level and an indicator of your battery condition. (As one who has had to replace his battery due to too many failed “sleep on lid close” this is nice. Now let’s hope SL fixes that lid close issue)

3

WiFi Menu

Option click the WiFi menu to get details on your network. (Yes, I was option clicking and cmd clicking everything in sight tonight)

4

Services

I know this ones been talked a lot about but I figured I’d mention it anyway. There is now a Services section in the keyboard pref pane that lets you control active services and assign keystrokes to their activation. This is very useful.

5

Grab

If, like me, you hate that Apple makes screen captures tiffs rather than jpgs do the following:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

Now when you do Cmd-Shft-4 you’ll get a jpeg. (Remember if you hit spacebar immediately after you can select just a window rather than the screen) Note that this tip oddly only affects the command shortcut and not the Grab program.