Finder

There are some nice FTP clients available for Mac OS X – some are even free. But suppose you need to download a file to a Mac that doesn’t have an FTP client installed? What to do? Why, just use the FTP functionality that’s built into Mac OS X, of course. Here’s how.

Spotlight’s default scope button menu provides only a few of the many predefined search filters available in Mac OS X Leopard. The default choices are Kind, Last opened date, Last modified date, Created date, Name, Contents and Other. If your favorite search attributes aren’t included as default options, you may wish to add them for [...]

The Mac OS X Leopard version of Spotlight supports Boolean logic. This doesn’t mean you’re limited to creating complicated AND/NOT/OR queries in the Spotlight search field. You can open the Spotlight window and build a Boolean search using as many of the 145 predefined search attributes as you wish. Here’s how.

Did you know the window title or proxy icon could reveal the complete folder path for an object? You can do this to reveal a list of all the folders between the object and the root level. Mac OS X allows you to click on any folder in this list to make Finder open the [...]

There are four buttons on the Finder toolbar for switching between Icon View, List View, Column View and Cover Flow View. Did you know there are keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching Finder views? Here’s how.