Dialog Button. The Most Basic Mac Usability

After several times going further to the tweaking process, often we forgot the very basic usability that we will need in using our Mac, which is well-known yet often ignored, i.e. choosing dialog button with keyboard.

Setting needs to be done are very minor comparing to major advantages and boost in productivity that will be gained. Let's follow the instructions on how to use keyboard to select dialog box button.

Enabling Full Keyboard Access

Full keyboard access is the main role for today. With full keyboard access, we can use our tab key to traverse through dialog buttons, that will give us blue highlight as indicator. Here is how to set it.

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to Keyboard & Mouse and under Keyboard Shortcuts section
3. Quickly glance at the bottom of the pane and select radio button All controls
4. For the whole step, actually can be replaced by pressing Control-Fn-F7

Shown Above. Full Keyboard Access Set to All Controls

Now the option to navigate through your dialog buttons has been enabled.

Navigating through Dialog Buttons

Has been said earlier, you can use tab key to move around button's indicator. There are two types of indicators can be seen on dialog box, one button is highlighted and one button is filled with blue color (provided that you use default Leopard theme).

Shown Above. Dialog Box Appeared Upon Quitting Safari

• spacebar for highlighted button
• enter for filled button
• escape for doing nothing and closing dialog box

Note. If you can't see the button in blue highlight, you should try to set full keyboard access again

Word Counter for Mac

Get Dashboard Widget

If you're having problem with counting words in your Mac, you can use this the Word Counter widget. This widget can be downloaded here.

You can also customize the counter by clicking on the i icon on the right hand corner of the widget.

Take Out from Dashboard

There is a way to take out the widget out of your Dashboard, so you don't need to open your Dashboard every time you want to use the Word Counter. To achieve this, you only need to run these command lines with your Terminal :

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
killall Dock

CleanMyMac from MacPaw

Upon installation of application, some system files are spread across your Mac without your knowing that. Even after uninstallation, those persistent files are leaved behind, eating up your free space.

Several third party apps are available to clean up these leftovers; CleanMyMac is one of those. And this time, we are giving away 5x CleanMyMac as courtesy of MacPaw.

What's CleanMyMac

CleanMyMac is a system utility that cleans unneeded files. It will help slim universal binaries, clean logs, cache, and leftovers from uninstallation of applications and remove unneeded languages. Basically, it slims down your disk usage.

Some of the reasons you will want to use CleanMyMac:

1. Easy to use, user-friendly interface with drag and drop nature
2. Able to removes useless language translations
3. Quick and secure file eraser
4. Able to clean up leftover from previously removed applications and widgets

Useful Links

Here are useful links for more information about CleanMyMac:

1. MacPaw Homepage
2. CleanMyMac Download Link
3. CleanMyMac User Guide

Blogo Blogging Editor

If you own a blog or twitter account and you're looking for an easy-to-use interface with complete features, Blogo will be your best choice for blogging editor.

There are several appealing features that make Blogo stand out from other editors and make Blogo recommended blog editor:

1. Twitter Support - Quickly follow friends or post status
2. Offline Mode - Live preview even when offline
3. Drag-and-Drop - Easily edit and add image
4. Fullscreen Mode - Cut down distractions
5. Javascript Bookmarklet - Post content from YouTube, Flickr, etc

Keep reading for Screenshots and How to Win.

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Twitter Support


Fullscreen Mode

To know more about Blogo, watch the screencasts here.