Intermediate

If you want to record any video content played in your browser you can use Snow Leopard's QuickTime X screen recording feature. If you want to avoid the need for cropping the video, put the video on full screen before starting the recording.

If you also want sound with your video you need reroute the speakers to the microphone with a software like Soundflower and select this new input source within Quicktime X as an input source for sound.

Google enables you to create a translation of your website on the fly. All you have to do is add a piece of code to your html anywhere on the page. Users will be able to select the langauge of their preference and the page will immediately will be translated to the chosen language. Naturally machine made translation is not as good as if it were done by a human, but it's good enough for people who do not speak the original language of the site to be able to understand the content.

More such videos on Graphics.com/Learning.

The fastest way to browse your directories in OS X is clearly the column view that you access by pressing Apple-3.

However in this view long file names are usually partially hidden, which can be a problem. Worry not, there is an easy way to resize the width of these columns. Just drag the separator line at the little handle at the bottom. This operation will only change one column at a time.

If you want to change all of them press Alt while resizing. This will not only resize all columns at once, but also makes the new width the default setting for all windows.

Google launched Sidewiki, a new feature of the Google Browser Toolbar. It let's you comment on web pages in an collapsing side window. See the video for details.

It will be interesting to see how Sidewiki deals with spam and abuse.

If you're operating a website, it is probably a good idea to install Google Toolbar to check what people are saying about your site, even if it's only visible to Sidewiki users. Unfortunately the toolbar isn't available for Safari, but Firefox and IE.

When something goes wrong with your OS X operating system or your Applications you can try several things before getting upset about it:

1. Quit all unused apps - If you have a memory issue this will solve it.
2. Restart - Most of the times this is a quick solution.
3. Repair permissions - Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, select your HD and Verify then Repair your Permissions.

You must have noticed an annoying little bug in Snow Leopard. When you try to open multiple files it only opens one at a time. Unfortunately I couldn't find a perfect solution, but there is an intermediate workaround until Apple fixes it.

1. Download and uncompress the attached file to your Desktop
2. Open Terminal and navigate to the folder you want to fix
3. Enter this command: find . -exec ~/Desktop/quarantine.sh '{}' \;

Thanks to Steve Grenier at the Apple support forums. If you have a permanent better solution, please do comment!

Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) introduced 4-finger trackpad gestures for MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

If you swipe down with four fingers you will activate Exposé to show all your active windows. If you swipe either up or down Exposé gets deactivated.

If you swipe up, your desktop will show. To deactivate you can again swipe up or down.

If you swipe sideways the Application switcher will show up. Once it's active you can select the required app and click to bring it forward.

Check out this video from Matt from www.macosxtutorials.com about what have changed in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) compared to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).

Have you already made the jump? If so, how is it working out for you? If not, what's stopping you?