Mac Help Tips

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Organise Your Mac Files with Colour

Use the Label feature in contextual menus (for example, when burning a disc or copying a file) to colour-code file icons. Later, you can use Spotlight to search for files with particular label colours; perhaps red for tax files, blue for business documents, and so on.

Excerpted from The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition by Robin Williams

Improve Snow Leopard Installation Performance on Your MacBook Air

For better performance when installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your MacBook Air, try this technique. While you install Snow Leopard, connect both the MacBook Air and the computer hosting the remote disc via Ethernet, instead of via AirPort wireless networking.

Excerpted from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson

Use Real Accent Marks

You can type accent marks on the Mac, as in résumé and piñata. It's easy to remember that you use the Option key, and the accents are hiding beneath the keyboard characters that would usually be under them. For example, the acute accent over the e (é) is Option e; the tilde over the n (ñ) is Option n.

Excerpted from The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition by Robin Williams