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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do

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Saved by 29 people (8 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-05-14


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on 2008-05-14 by willoneal

Finally someone reminds us as to some of the less-often-used Mac capabilities.

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Activate screen corners

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Assign custom icons to each one of your drives to pretty up your desktop and make them easy to see.

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Look up words in the dictionary with a keystroke.

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Launch applications from Spotlight

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Zoom WAY in on a page

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Hold down the Control key, then drag TWO fingers up your Mac's trackpad

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1. Double as an external drive.


Want to move huge files onto one Mac from another? Using the Mac's "Target Disk Mode," a press of the T key during startup transforms your Mac into an external FireWire drive. Plug it into another Mac with a FireWire cable and copy files to and fro, no networking required.

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Double as an external drive

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Using the Mac's "Target Disk Mode," a press of the T key during startup transforms your Mac into an external FireWire drive.

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