Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...

More Mac 101, our series of tips for new and novice Mac OS X users. Here's a tip that I was recently reminded of while choosing photos from a web browser for upload. Mac OS X Leopard's Finder has a ...

One of the joys of being a power user is when you use keyboard shortcuts to shave precious seconds off of your workflow routines. While you may know all the system shortcuts there are (⌘ + C for Copy, ...

The Media Browser in macOS’s Open dialog was a powerful addition many years ago. You may not even know it’s called that: it’s the area in the left-hand sidebar in any Open dialog below the Media label ...

To switch to column view in the Open dialog, click the column icon, just to the left of the location pop-up. As in Finder, you can double-click the double-pipe to right-size the selected column.