WebDAV (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a quick and easy tool for managing your files in UDrive and on SPARK. On a Mac, you can mount your UDrive or your SPARK File Manager directly onto your desktop, allowing you to easily drag & drop (or copy & paste) files between your computer…
Tag: Mac Tips
Mac Tips: Hot Corners
Make the corners of your Mac screen work for you! Customize your Mac’s “Hot Corners” to allow you to quickly engage useful desktop commands by moving the cursor into the corners of your computer screen. These moves parallel some of the function commands discussed in our post, Mac Tips: Driving Around the Desktop. While function…
Mac Tips: Screenshots
Taking pictures of your desktop is as easy as pressing Command, Shift, 3. In your Mac, you can take a picture of your entire desktop or just a selection. This is useful if you would like to provide illustrated instructions for your students or for class presentations. Command+Shift+3: captures the entire desktop. Command+Shift+4: gives you a cross-hair…
Mac Tips: Getting More Desktop with Spaces
If you sometimes feel that your desktop is too cluttered, or if you wish you had another computer screen to separate work from play, Mac’s “Spaces” feature delivers–without spending a dime on a second monitor. The Spaces feature allows you to shuttle between as few as 2 and as many as 16 desktops screens all…
Mac Tips: Driving around the Desktop
The latest Mac operating system (Mac OS X) comes with a few quick tricks that will streamline your computing experience. We’ll deliver a few of these tricks in a series of posts called “Mac Tips.” You can always find these tips and a lot more under the “Technology Survival Guide” Category. They’re also quite cool:…