Stickies.app in Leopard can become very handy if you know how to activate it within any application. for example, if you’re on Safari.app, just highlight any text and press Shift + Command + Y.
You can drag any image, song, application or even a movie to this Stickies.app. For me it is best to arrange it on top of the Desktop Click Windows > Collapse (or Command + M), and make it run on start up.
Where is the startup feature in leopard? In PC, whatever you put inside the Startup feature, the application will be running when you start the PC. In Mac, you will find this feature inside System Preferences.
How? Go to System Preferences > Account > Login items. Click the ‘+’ sign to add application that should run when you start your Mac, and check the checkbox if you want to run it in the background.
Now, if you need to temporarily disable this feature, meaning you don’t want this applications to run when start up, press the Shift key when you start your Mac, and release it when the Apple logo comes out. This start up wil take longer, though, about 3-4 times longer than usual. This is very handy if you need to trouble shoot your Mac.
When you open an application by double clicking or Comand o from the Finder, you can close the Finder as soon as the application is launched.
Press Option key when you are opening an application from the Finder. This will open the application and close the Finder automatically.
And just for the fun, while you are it, after you highlight the application name press shift + option + command + o. This will do the same as above, but in slow motion. 
Do you want to arrange icons on the desktop by name, date created, date modified, size, kind or label automatically? What you need to do is just Right click (Control + Click, or tap by two fingers if you have set it up on the System Preference) anywhere on the desktop, when the popup menu comes up, just press Option key. The Arrange By menu will change to Keep Arrange By, and choose whatever suite you.
So, everytime there is a new icon on the desktop, it will be automatically sorted by the one that you have choosen.
To cancel the automatically arrangement, just the the same procedure, and the Keep Arrange By will change to Arrange By.
If you are coming from PC world and used to use ACDSEE, which can view images in thumbnails, now in Leopard, Preview.app is a real powerhouse.
When you are in folder containing pictures, just select all (Command + a) or just drag them all. Press Command + o.
Preview.app can view JPEG, TIFF, PICT, GIF, BMP, PNG, SGI, TGA, EPS, PDF and can even play animated gif, too!
Preview.app can crop, rotate, adjust color, adjust size. For those who need to see lens setting of the camera, ISO setting, focus mode, the flash was on/off, now you can do that in Preview.app!
And one more thing, did you know that Preview.app can now cutting people out of the background?
Here is how, open an image > click ‘Select’ > ‘Instant Alpa’ shown in the images on the left. Now here is the best part, just click the background area that you want to eliminate. Click and drag to eliminate more area when needed. When you are done, just press Enter/Return.
Choose File > Save as if you don’t want to replace the original image
Drawit is an easy too use graphic application for Leopard and Tiger. Out of the box, it contains a number of ready-to-use tools, for you too edit, stack, or mask images. What makes it different from other graphic or editing tools is that mainly anyone can do it, that is how easy it is. Yes there are a few things you must learn before actually use it but, you can find guides, and more at the website. Most features that the Application has you’d normally see in other graphic/editing tools. But what is on here is what makes it unique.
The features are simple there’s the paint tool, and more, (see below). The main features though, are,
• Vector Tool
• Bitmap Edit
• Masks
• Layer-based
Those are just some of there many features, for more check out there website. You can Purchase or Download Draw it at there website, Get DrawIt
For new Mac users or we call them the switcher, the ‘Delete’ key is associated with the ‘Backspace’ and there is no Delete forward key in Mac while there is one in PC. In Mac, to delete backward, just hit the ‘Delete key’, while deleting forward, just press ‘fn’ + ‘Delete’ keys.
There are more while you’re at it. Try pressing
1. ‘Control + a’ to move the cursor to the beginning of the sentence
2. ‘Control + e’ to move the cursor at the end of the sentence
3. ‘Control + d’ to delete forward (same as ‘fn + delete’)
4. ‘Control + k’ to delete the sentence start from the beginning to the end of the sentence.
5. ‘Control + o’ to insert a new paragraph, just like Return
6. ‘Control + t’ to transport one letter to the right
7. ‘Option + delete’ to delete one word to the left. This is very handy when you are typing the word and has the typo in it.
Does UNIX ring you a bell?
The easiest and simpliest way to add contact to your address book from your Mail.app is by:
1. Put your cursor on the address (anywhere in the body of the message whenever there is an address)
2. Right click it and select ‘Create new contact…’
Leopard is the most advance operating system with simplicity
Since your are on this topic, you could also select ‘Show map’ to see it on Google Map. Or just want to create a new todo? Simply select ‘New todo’
The System Preference in Mac OS X has a very neat feature. While you are at System Preference, the search form is activated and ready to receive any keyword from you.
If you are going to edit or see the configuration of your TCP/IP, just type tcp, and the ‘Network’ icon wil be highlighted. Or try ‘Currency’ to set your local currency. Give it a try…
Try to use this powerful search engine anywhere in your Mac and you’ll love your mac even more.
Sometimes you want to be very private on your own Mac when browsing the internet using Safari. All the data in history, cache, cookies will not be saved. Actually this is very handy when you are using friend’s computer or public computer.
What you have to do is just click the Safari menu and choose Private Browsing, the popup dialog box will show up confirming that you want to use this feature. Just click OK and proceed with the browsing.
Most people know Spotlight only to search document or application by its name. But there are a lot more than that. Spotlight can do math calculation. Just type for example 4*5, the result result will automatically appear on the fly. Or try typing the word alabaster, the dictionary will show you its meaning on the fly. You can then press enter to see more result from the dictionary.
More, you can also search any image that has 800 pixel in width. Just type width:800, for example. Or to see only the gif image that has 800 pixel, just type gif width:800
You can also combine the +, – “” signs, just like when you do in google
Smultron is a free text editor for Leopard which has the ability to do like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on. It is easy to program with Smultron as it colors the content in different colours depending on what the code does. And you also have many ways to search for words and line numbers to help finding the code you are looking for. You can also split the window in two to display two parts of the same document or to compare two different documents side by side.
You can also preview HTML-files directly in Smultron and save snippets of text and insert them simply with a shortcut. And if you don’t want to be disturbed by other applications or the desktop you can let Smultron cover the whole screen to let you concentrate on your work.
For all international users there is full support for all encodings and it is translated into many languages so you can use it in your own native tongue.
Visit their website for more information: http://smultron.sourceforge.net
