REARRANGING THE MENU EXTRAS

REARRANGING THE MENU EXTRAS

Want to change the order of the Menu Extras in your menu bar?  Just hold the Command key and drag the icons into the order you want to them.  It gives you a real feeling of power.  Well, a feeling of power over tiny icons anyway.

REMOVING MENU EXTRAS FROM YOUR MENU BAR

To remove a Menu Extra, just hold the Command key and click-and-drag the Menu Extra off the bar.  It doesn’t get much easier than that.

THE ACCIDENTAL-DELETE PROTECTION DEVICE  

In previous versions of the Mac OS, you could protect an important file from accidentally being deleted (trashed) by clicking on the Locked checkbox in the Info window.  The problem was you could still put the file in the Trash, and if you held the Option key while emptying the Trash, you could still delete it.  Talk about a half –assed security device.  Well, in Mac OS X, you can apply the lock the same way (click on the file, press Command- I to bring up the Info window, and click on Locked); but the improvement comes in that Mac OS X will not even let you drag that file  to the Trash on the first place.  Instead, you get a warning dialog telling you basically, “Sorry, puck.” Hey, serve you right for trying to delete a file you thought was important.  

SAVING TO THE DESKTOP IN A FLASH

When you’re in the Save As dialog and you want to save a file to the desktop, just press Command-D and the “Where” pop-up menu switches to Desktop, so all you have to do is name your file and click OK.  Another alternative to saving in the Documents folder (like the OS really wants you to), is to save the file directly to your Home folder by pressing Shift-Command- H and Home appears as your Save destination.