Apr 23

Mac: Add desktop backgrounds & open multiple inspectors

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I’ve finally started to get sick of the standard Mac desktop backgrounds (probably because I set them to cycle every 30 minutes). Today I wanted to add some new ones and had a tough time finding where/how to do this.

If you want to pull pictures from iPhoto, then you can easily do this through the System Preferences menu. However, I store my photos on an external drive that isn’t always connected. So, to put new images into my Mac’s default image folder:

  1. Open Finder
  2. Open the “Library” directory off your hard drive root
  3. Find the folder called “Desktop Pictures” and drop in the new stuff
  4. Go back to System Preferences, then Displays and choose which one(s) you want.

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I also noticed this extremely handy new tip from TUAW today.  To open multiple tabs on inspector windows, simply hold down the Option key when clicking on the tab!

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