How to use Quicktime Player to Record Screen ?

First open up Quicktime Player from your Applications folder.

Click on the "File Menu" and the "New Screen Recording" or  hit Control-Command-N. 

You’ll get a little black Screen Recording window from which to control your options and start recording. When you click the drop-down arrow, you’ll see even more stuff you can change, including the location where your movie will be saved.

Make sure to toggle the “Microphone” option off of “None” if you’d like your viewers to be able to hear you talk while they’re watching your video.

“Show Mouse Clicks in Recording”—is an especially helpful new feature in Lion. With this, clicking on something during the recording will make a small circle appear briefly around your cursor to give your audience a visual cue about where you’ve clicked.

Another shiny new plaything is the ability to choose an area of your screen to record rather than having to make a video of the entire thing (as was the case in Snow Leopard). When you click the record button, here’s what QuickTime will tell you all polite-like:

So drag to select an area that you’d like to record, and then when you release your mouse button, you’ll be able to resize the box you’ve made by dragging the familiar handles around it. You can also click and hold on the interior of the box and drag to adjust its position on your screen.

When you’re satisfied, click “Start Recording,” or you can hit Escape to exit out of the box-adjusting window if you don’t want to actually record anything. 

After you’re finished making a Video, click the stop button on the black Screen Recording window. QuickTime will then process your work and save the .mov file to wherever you’ve assigned it to do so. Using the “Share” menu option, you can publish your Video to YouTube, send it directly to an e-mail, or even put it on Facebook.

+Mac OS X Mountain Lion Tips 

How to Compress Group of Files into Zip Archive and Share?

Select multiple sequential items by holding Shift click or Command-click to select multiple non-contiguous items in Finder.

Right-click on any one of the items (or Control-click, or two-finger click on your trackpad), and choose Compress Items. 

You’ll get a new file, named Archive.zip, that will contain all your items in one simple file. 

It’s much easier now to send this archive file along to your contacts, via email, iMessage, or Airdrop!

+Mac OS X Mountain Lion Tips 

How to Force Quit The Current Active Window From The Apple Menu ?

When an Window gets stuck on OSX, typically force quit it by hitting Command-Option-Escape or by Selecting Force Quite from Apple Menu.

But there is Easiest way to do it right from the Apple Menu.....

When you’re in one of the frozen app/Window that we occasionally face, simply press the Shift button on your keyboard and go up to the Apple Menu in the upper left of your Mac’s screen.

The Shift key will change the Force Quit… menu item to say Force Quit [Application Name]. Hit it, and you see Magic!

Now, if your app happens to have frozen to the point where the Apple menu no longer works? Then you have to hit the keyboard Shortcut Command-Option-Escape where you get the Force Quite window to select the Application to Quite!  

+Mac OS X Mountain Lion Tips 

How to remove Gmail "sent message" label - OSX Mail

Problem : 

When using Gmail account in  Lion Mail :

While using Lion Mail to send/reply a mail, On Browser, Gmail will show a "sent message" label on Replied or Sent mail.

What should be done to prevent it?

I mean, I don't want to see the "sent message" label on Gmail browser, after I sent a mail using Lion Mail.

1. Open OSX Mail, click on a folder "Sent Mail" under [Gmail] and click on Mailbox menu in the menu bar

Hover over "Use This Mailbox For" and click Sent. This will make Apple Mail use Gmail's Sent Mail folder for sent messages instead of creating its own.

2. A label called "Sent Messages" will show up with your other custom labels.

3. Drag all the messages from the "Sent Messages" label to the "Sent Mail" label, to make sure they're all there

4. You can then delete the "Sent Messages" label.

+OSXDaily +Mac OS X Mountain Lion Tips 

iOS 7 available to the public on September 10th according to developer email (update)

After news leaked of Apple's upcoming iPhone event on September 10th, it was assumedthe new iOS 7 would be announced at the same time — but now there's proof. Today, a developer named Owen Williams received an email indicating that iOS 7 would be released to the general public on the 10th, giving non-developers their first peek at the controversial operating system. The email comes from Nuance, which works closely enough with Apple to know the date in advance.

The news could also indicate that the release date of the new iPhones will come much closer to the September 10th event itself. Apple could even opt for a day-of release, a move the company has executed successfully with other products, but never attempted with the iPhone.

Source : theverge

Here’s Another, Easier Way To Make A New Folder Full Of Selected Items

I make a new folder in the Finder using Shift-Command-N, or by selecting New Folder from the Finder menu, then Command- or Shift-click all the files I want to put into that folder, and drag them all over. I’ve heard you can even copy and paste files into a new folder the same way, but I’m kind of old school and don’t mess with that.

 Today, though, I read about a totally different way to do this. Color me surprised (and a bit chagrined) to find out that there’s an easier way to put a bunch of items into a new folder in the Finder.

 So, if you’re in the Finder, go ahead and Command-click on all the items you want to put into a new folder. Then, right click on any of the selected files, and choose New Folder with Selection.

 You can also head up to the File menu, and choose New Folder with Selection, or you can simply hit Control-Command-N to do the same thing.

Now, this seems like a pretty simple thing, but Mac OS X is full of these little refinements that just get by us once in a while. Hopefully, this is something you can use to make things just that much easier for you.

From: AppStrom