I’ve been an avid Mac user for almost two years now and I still find myself finding cool things about the O/S that impress me. Sometimes, its just cool applications that have been there the whole time waiting for you to discover them; however there are also a TON of great looking applications out there for. A great place to get started finding them is at iUseThis.com. (You can see what I’m using in my iUseThis profile.)

Since I haven’t blogged for a while, I thought I’d share two particularly helpful tips for other Mac users:

1. Put Album Art in your Dock. - This cool application replaces your iTunes dock icon with the album art (if available) for the song that’s currently playing. (See below)

2. Screen Captures, without extra software. -

Capture your full screen
Press shift open-apple 3 to create a full screen print image on your desktop. (If you have dual screens, two images will be created, one for each screen.)

Capture a portion of your screen
Press shift open-apple 4 to get a cross-hair selection icon to capture a portion of your screen.

Capture a single window
Press control shift 4 space and you’ll get a camera icon that selects a window for you to capture.

And if that’s not enough … you can also access an application called “Grab” in your “Applications\Utilities” folder that will give you some nice menus to do all this and more!

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