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Mar 24th, 2010

Rounik Sethi takes you deep into the inner workings of Mac OS 10.6.

Snow Leopard is possibly the most advanced Operating System ever! It’s easy to use but underneath the surface it’s packed with many hidden tricks and features that can transform your workflow. Whether you use your Mac for work or pleasure, this series is designed to make you a more efficient user, help you to customize your Mac to work the way you want it to and have fun in the process!

You’ll start by discovering advanced tips on how to customize and navigate around the Finder with ease. Using built-in features and select free 3rd party add-ons, you’ll find out how to make Menu items practical in your day to day tasks.

As we progress, you’ll learn how to expand the clipboard’s memory, navigate any text document without a mouse and take an in depth look at which System Preferences can increase your productivity.

Beyond these workflow tips, this title will teach you the best ways to capture contents on your screen and from a camera, scanner or even an iPhone straight to your Mac.

By creating workflows in Automator you’ll explore you how to make any repetitive tasks on your Mac a breeze, so you can put your feet up and let Snow leopard do the work. In doing this you’ll learn how to turn an Automator workflow into a Mac application or a Service command available to you in virtually any application you choose. Finally we’ll dig deeper beneath the interface of Mac OSX and discover the world of Unix: Terminal. This will give you access to change the behaviour and appearance of many aspects of OSX not available in the GUI.

• Mac OS 10 101: Core Snow Leopard
• Mac OS 10.6 103: Mail - The Complete Guide
• Mac OS 10.6 201: Advanced Snow Leopard

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• Chapter 1: Advanced Finder, Desktop & Dock
• 1: The Finder
• 01:09
  1. Introduction
• 05:03
  2. Navigating Quickly Around the Finder & OSX
• 02:21
  3. Cycle through Finder Windows
• 03:01
  4. The Info Window vs The Info Inspector
• 02:42
  5. Tiling Windows in the Finder using TwoUp
• 01:51
  6. Customizing Finder Windows - Columns Trick & Hide To...
• 02:45
  7. Customizing Finder Window - Advanced Path View
• 02:21
  8. Creating shortcuts in the Finder's Toolbar
• 2: The Desktop
• 03:47
  9. Customizing the Menu Bar items
• 02:10
  10. Launch Applications from the Menu Bar using Xmenu
• 01:42
  11. Advanced Option Key - The Menu Bar
• 03:30
  12. Advanced Option Key 2 - Avoid Confirmation Dialog w...
• 02:35
  13. Navigation tricks in Dialog Windows
• 03:15
  14. Spotlight does more than search
• 3: Getting Deeper into the Dock
• 01:59
  15. Hide & Hide Others from the Dock
• 04:38
  16. Advanced Minimize Window Techniques
• 02:49
  17. Useful Dock Shortcuts
• 00:53
  18. The Dock in 2D - Teaser
• Chapter 2: System Preferences & Productivity
• 4: Typing & Text Productivity Workflows
• 03:24
  19. Essential Typing Navigation Tricks
• 04:47
  20. Multiple Copy & Paste using ClipMenu
• 02:48
  21. Quick Search text in Google and Spotlight
• 04:53
  22. Text Substitutions
• 02:57
  23. Creating Custom Text Substitutions
• 5: Essential System Preferences
• 03:37
  24. Changing Appearance & Scroll Behaviour
• 05:37
  25. Languages & International Settings
• 02:45
  26. Finding & Creating Keyboard Shortcuts
• 02:15
  27. Setting the Alert Sound Preferences
• 01:58
  28. Adding your own Alert Sounds
• 01:37
  29. Essential Date & Time Settings
• 04:39
  30. Speak Up Mac!
• 04:31
  31. Listen Up - Speech Recognition
• 06:51
  32. Essential Accessibility Options
• Chapter 3: Capturing Your Imagination
• 6: Capturing your Screen
• 02:09
  33. Capture Entire Screen to an Image File
• 02:05
  34. Capturing a Specific Area of the Screen
• 03:12
  35. Capturing a Window Without any Background
• 02:24
  36. Capturing to the Clipboard
• 04:39
  37. Capture a Selection - Advanced Tricks
• 02:57
  38. Using Grab
• 01:43
  39. Grab the Mouse Cursor
• 01:48
  40. Timed Screen Capture
• 02:36
  41. Screen Recording in Quicktime X
• 7: Image Capture - Camera, iPhone & Scanner
• 03:35
  42. Image Capture
• 03:40
  43. Image Capture Options
• 01:43
  44. Importing Selected Images
• 02:42
  45. Workflow 1 - Create a PDF Contact Sheet
• 02:51
  46. Workflow 2 - Build a Photo Webpage
• 05:36
  47. Workflow 3 - Scanning images
• Chapter 4: Automator & Services - Making repetitiv...
• 8: Automator
• 02:36
  48. Meet Otto - What is Automator?
• 01:58
  49. Automator Templates
• 04:08
  50. The Automator Interface & Rename multiple files
• 06:35
  51. Processing Image Files
• 05:38
  52. Who is Snooping on your Mac?
• 04:40
  53. Recording a Workflow - Automating Startup Disk
• 03:13
  54. Folder Actions - Automatic file backups
• 02:15
  55. Enabling & Disabling Folder Actions
• 05:15
  56. An Introduction to Variables
• 9: Services
• 02:56
  57. Services Overview: Snow Leopard at your Service!
• 04:10
  58. Setting up Preferences for Services
• 01:39
  59. Show an Address in Google Maps
• 02:26
  60. Transform any Text to Audio to iTunes
• 03:13
  61. Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to a Service
• 04:09
  62. Creating a Service - Rotate Images in the Finder
• 05:57
  63. Creating a Service - Convert Movie to iphone Format
• Chapter 5: Working in The Terminal
• 10: The Terminal
• 03:22
  64. An Overview of the Terminal
• 03:01
  65. Add Current Path to the Finder Toolbar
• 02:15
  66. Talking Terminal
• 02:49
  67. Create a Recently Opened Applications Stack
• 03:25
  68. Flatten the Dock. Make it 2-D!
• 02:35
  69. Keep Widgets on the Desktop
• 02:12
  70. Disable Dashboard
• 02:04
  71. Turn your Screen Saver into the Desktop Background
• 03:10
  72. Conclusion and One Last Tip

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