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Apple has opened its first Apple Store in China today, which is located at the Sanlitun Village, Beijing.

First Apple Store in China

Today is iCal day. What is it? It’s the day featured on iCal’s icon. Prior to Leopard, it’s the only day in the whole year that iCal’s icon on the Dock shows the correct date whether your iCal is running or not. Now, iCal’s icon on the Dock can always show the correct date in Leopard.

iCal’s Icon

But why is it July 17th? Steve Job’s birthday? Or a special day in Apple’s history? No. It’s just the day iCal was introduced to the public. Haha!

Many people love to use keyboard to control the operating system as often as they can without mouse. Then how to control the dialog with keyboard?

Figure A

Figure A shows a typical dialog in Mac OS. The button with blue background (OK in Figure A) is the default button of the dialog. You can always hit the Return key to select the default button, or hit Esc to cancel the dialog.

After hitting the Tab key once, you will see that there’s a blue glow around the OK button (see Figure B). It means that this button is highlighted and can be selected with the Space Bar at this time. And you can hit Tab again to highlight the Cancel button (see Figure C).

Figure B

Figure C

But the Tab key is not available on some dialogs. So you should use ? or Command+? (? is one of the A-Z keys) to select a button other than the default and Cancel buttons. You can use Command+D (D for don’t) to select Don’t Save on the dialog that Figure D shows, and use S (S for sleep) to select Sleep on the dialog that Figure E shows.

Figure D

Figure E

If you select some items in Finder and want to move them to another location, you will find that the Cut menu item under Edit is not available (see Figure A).

Figure A

Because the Cut is only for cutting the filename while you’re editing it. So how to move some items from one location to another in Finder? It’s easy, just hold down the Command key while dragging the items with your mouse. That’s all.

By default, dragging items from one location to another in Finder means that they’re being moved if the volume of the new location is the same as the volume of the orginal location. If the volumes of the new location and the original one are not the same, the items are being copied while dragging.

Furthermore, Apple’s document says that dragging items with Option held down will copy those items to the new location. And dragging items with Option and Command held down will make alias in the new location.