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, ...

The Save dialog in Mac OS X (it's the box you get when you press Command-S) can often lead switchers, and inexperienced Mac users, astray. When you save a document you are presented with a dialog box ...

Even for long-time Mac users, it can be challenging to identify the differences between Save, Save As, and Duplicate. Save is seemingly straightforward, but not necessarily so—a lot happens behind the ...

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 javax.swing.JFileChooser class describes a Swing component for choosing files, usually via its int showOpenDialog(Component parent) and int showSaveDialog(Component parent) methods. In this post, ...

The third grade class is busy working in the computer lab when the teacher reminds everyone to save their files. "Save or Save As?" someone asks. No one has ever explained the difference to these ...

Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome make it easy to save a Web page as an HTML file for viewing offline, but that is far from your only option when you want to preserve some or all of the ...

Malware distributed via affiliate programs and bundled with other applications is using a devious tactic to fool users into installing it on their systems. Detected this month by malware analysts from ...