Sometimes, you discover the coolest Mac OS X tricks by accident. That happened recently to Hints reader philostein. And philostein’s accident is our gain. First, copy a file path to your Mac’s ...

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, ...

Figure 1. Click either button to reveal the appropriate file chooser For example, click the JFileChooser.showSaveDialog() Demo button to display the save file chooser. Figure 2 reveals the resulting ...

A recent reader comment reminded me that just because a solution to a problem has existed for years doesn’t mean it’s well known. Randy Spydell asked, in essence, why the File menu has a Duplicate ...

The first time I run a new program, I usually follow basically the same process. I check out the menus, buttons on the toolbar, windows that can be opened, and then just start playing with the ...