“The more you know about an operating system, the more you can get out of it,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “Here are six little OS X secrets that should help you get more from the platform.”
Cool stuff buried in OS X:
• Keeping an eye on power-hungry apps
• Finding your way around Finder (Finder with multiple tabs)
• Signing documents
• Adding character to your documents with special characters and emojis
• Creating Guest accounts
• Using and managing passwords
Read more in the full article here.
Signing a document w/o a camera on your Mac’s LCD means a workaround. Use an iPhone and use photo editing to crop, resize the # of pixels and convert to png so you can drop out any excess image artifacts easily.
Once you paste in a signature on a pdf, it is still obvious it is a pasted signature. If you want to seamlessly have the signature in integrally, open the finished pdf in Photoshop or other image editing program and Save As without layers.
OR, use the PDF signature feature in Preview using your Mac’s built-in iSight camera. Your signature looks like you signed it, not like you copied and pasted it.
OR you could read he said WITHOUT a camera in the very first line of his post…
“If you want to seamlessly have the signature in integrally, open the finished pdf in Photoshop or other image editing program and Save As without layers.”
Of Print to PDF from Preview (much easier).
I used the sign feature in Preview with a PDF the other day, Its incredible.
Too bad some of that cool stuff buried in OS X isn’t a “Bounce” message feature in Mail.