Running on the road? Put a warning sign on your t-shirt.

Those who read my blog Running with Dogs know about my other passion - running. When running on the road it's important to make yourself visible to others, warn them that you are there.

Here's a design I made in Pages to go on my t-shirt. It is based on the usual widely recognised triangular warning sign on roads.

The runner's figure is drawn with iWork's draw tool (pen). Behind it is a white triangle, a slightly reshaped Triangle from the Shapes menu. And at the back is the red triangle with rounded corners. I made it from the Rounded Rectangle, which is available in the Shapes menu. I made the  shape editable (Format > Shape > Make editable), then deleted one of the corners and reshaped the triangle.

Click on the picture to go to CafePress to see this and other t-shirts and products with this design. Contact the editor if you want to commission similar.

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How to find out where is your file or folder.

Command+Click on folder title

Command-click

Command and click the window title to reveal the folder or the file path, i.e. where the open folder or document is on the computer.

Remember that it works with both folders and files (documents.)

This trick is handy when you have a busy computer with lots of files and project folders.  It's best to organise your work as you go. Still, what if you have to find something you worked on last month, last year, or even a few years ago? 

Spotlight is brilliant in that it helps you find files by the keyword that you remember. When you hover the cursor over the name of the file in the Spotlight window it shows its path — where it is on the computer, folder after folder. But when you open the folder or the file you may not remember where it is on the machine. That's when checking the 'path' is helpful. It's like backtracking or zooming out — going from your current immediate location to a larger picture.

You can customise the toolbar of a folder window to have the path icon in it. In the Finder, click View > Customize toolbar and drag the Path icon to the toolbar. Click Done. When you click on the icon in an open folder, it shows the chain or path of all the folders where the one you're in at the moment is placed.

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How to make paragraphs in comments on Facebook.

Control+Return (Enter)

If you write long comments on Facebbok you may want to break your text with paragraphs. But hitting the Return (Enter) key posts the comment.
One way to post text with paragraphs is to write it in another application and then copy-paste into the comment field.
But you can make paragraphs right in the comment field. Press Control and then hit return. The comment will not be posted but you will get a new paragraph.

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Switching (cycling) through open apps in Mac OS.

To cycle (switch) through open programmes (applications) in Mac OS, press Command and hit the Tab key. 

You will see the large icons of all the open programmes in the middle of the screen. One hit on the Tab key will move you from the programme you are in to the one you’ve been using before that.

Continue pressing the Tab and you will ‘cycle’ through the programmes. Cycling goes to the right. 

But if the programme you want to switch to is on the left, press Command and Tab and hit the left arrow on the extended keyboard. If your keyboard doesn’t have arrows or if you simply don’t like arrows, Press Command and Shift and then hit Tab. Switching will go to the left.

Cult of Mac site suggests doing left-cycling by pressing Command and Tab and then typing tilde (~), which on some keyboard sits in the top row to the left of figure 1. I don’t have it on any of my keyboards, so cannot verify it.