List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by sgt on Monday June 24, 2013 @03:02AM (#5931414)

Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible.

Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed.

However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks on Finder again, it doesn't bring up a new window.

I tell them to do File->New Finder Window, but I wish there was a more elegant solution to this.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by mhurron on Monday June 24, 2013 @08:31AM (#5932443)

Because of the way application bundles work, you do not strictly have to move them to the /Applications folder on the hdd.

I first started using computers on a Mac SE, I found the whole setup.exe thing to put things on the disk for DOS and more especially Windows, to be odd. I was used to just running applications from the floppy disk it sat on.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by brown9-2 on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:45AM (#5933232)

I think it's a great subtle feature when applications detect on first-run they are not being run out of /Applications and ask if you'd like to have the bundle moved there. Saves a few steps.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by visagi on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:14AM (#5931843)

The applications folder is in the dock by default.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by sgt on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:15PM (#5934661)

I tried - dragging something using only a trackpad (many people just use a laptop) seems to be quite challenging for the computer challenged people.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by tehwalrus on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:40AM (#5932047)

I just always drag to the dock Applications folder, I've never messed around opening a Finder window.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by cstuder on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:25AM (#5931876)

You could click on the translucent bar button on the top right of a DMG-window, then you get the sidebar on the left back.

But apparently it's been removed in Lion: http://myintarweb.com/dispatch/lion-tip

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by protitap on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:45AM (#5931930)

Command-Option-T is the equivalent key combination.

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by lloeki on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:28PM (#5933963)

> the translucent bar button

a.k.a "the pill".

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by arnehormann on Monday June 24, 2013 @04:18AM (#5931649)

Does Cmd-N (when Finder is active: open a new Finder window) help?

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Re:List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks by toyg on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:25AM (#5931877)

Agree. I use Yoink! for this all the time.

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