Marrathon.com - Dave Marra's Web Site!

Marrathon.com - Dave Marra's Web Site!

Marrathon.com - Dave Marra's Web Site!

Marrathon.com - Dave Marra's Web Site!

Extract pages from multi-page PDF files in Preview

In Preview, click and drag a page thumbnail from the sidebar of a multi-page PDF to your desktop, to make that page into its own separate PDF file.

Arrange thumbnail windows in Exposé

In Snow Leopard, when using Exposé to show thumbnails of all windows, press Command-1 to arrange them by name or Command-2, by application.

See when messages were transmitted during an iChat

Hover your mouse over any text balloon in an iChat chat session to show the exact date and time that text passage was sent or received during the chat.

Easily extract audio from an iMovie movie clip

To separate the audio from video in a movie clip in iMovie '09, Control-click the clip and choose "Detach Audio" from the pop-up menu.

Create a PDF with text that cannot be copied

To create a PDF with text that cannot be copied, do Print> PDF> Save as PDF> Security Options, then check on "Require Password to Copy Text".

Set a Keynote presentation to automatically start playing

To set a Keynote presentation to automatically start playing when it is opened, do Inspector > Document > Automatically play upon open.

Configure iCal to open events in separate windows

Configure iCal to open events in their own window when you double-click on them via iCal>Prefs>Advanced>Open events in separate windows.