There are few things more aggravating than trying to watch a video when its audio is about one second too slow. Here’s a quick fix for the problem in VLC.
Every Gmail user has dealt with this annoyance: you’re writing an email, you copy and paste some text from another page, and the text’s formatting comes along for the ride. It’s not the end of the world, but then everything you type after that is formatted the same. Ugh. So now you do what? Keep the formatting? Switch to composing in plain text? Hunt for Gmail’s default font and size?
Trying to get to a particular part of the map on your phone? Lifehacker reader Matt reminds us that Google Maps includes gesture shortcuts for zooming in and out.
Mac: Here’s a great way to quickly forward a link to a web page you’re reading: hit Command, Shift and “i” and an email message will automatically open with the page title in the subject and the link in the body.
Mac: Previewing a document in Mac OS X Lion using Quick Look? Want to open it in an application instead? You don’t have to use the default application that Quick Look suggests in the top righthand corner of the preview window. Just click and hold down on the “Open with…” button to see several available options.
In the same way you can hold down the back button in Safari, Firefox or Chrome to access your browsing history, holding down the Finder’s back button in Lion shows you where you’ve recently been.
Your spacebar is an excellent timesaver on your Mac if you know how to use it. One great use is open spring-loaded folders in an instant.
If you want a super-steady shot from your iPhone’s camera — or want to take a picture of yourself from a tripod — you can actually use the volume button on your iPhone’s headset to take a picture.
If you want to save the contents of the Mac OS X clipboard, or just don’t want to bother with it at all, you don’t have to. You can just drag text (or, presumably, any other media) from one app to another using the dock or even the app switcher.
Lion’s resume feature can be pretty handy, but other times it opens a bunch of old windows when you least expect it. If you’re tired of apps opening up all the windows you had open last time, you can stop the app from remembering those windows next time with Command+Option+Q.
