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Bring Your Home Folder’s Library Back With One Checkbox In Mavericks
Apple decided to hide the Library from its users in recent OS X updates, but in Mavericks you can now change that with a simple checkbox.
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Create A Folder From Any Selected Items In The OS X Finder
Need to toss a bunch of items in a folder really fast? Mac OS X has a nifty shortcut that manages the operation in one fell swoop so you don’t have to make a folder and then take further action to populate it.
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Enable Text Selection In Finder’s Quicklook
Mac: Quicklook is an awesome feature that lets you quickly preview files without opening them. Here is a Finder hack that makes Quicklook even more useful: when you hit the space bar on a text document or PDF, you can select and copy text from the previewed document.
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Get More Control Over Finder’s Copy Dialog With The Option Key
When you copy multiple files in OS X and the destination folder already has files of the same name, you don’t have a lot of choice over what to do — you can either cancel the copy or replace the files. This little trick gives you a bit more power.