The Finder窶冱 tile menu has a Quit item that will make the Finder quit without shutting down your Mac. This is useful when you窶决e tight on system memory, but remember you窶冤l have to restart the Finder to safely shut down your Mac later.
You may want to avoid showing a tile for some applications, such as screen savers. To hide a tile, choose 窶路ide Tile窶 from the tile窶冱 menu. The tile will vanish, and won窶冲 reappear until you select 窶牢how Tile for窶ｦ窶 from the Show menu in the menu bar.
Some of the menu items in tile menus have command-key shortcuts, like cmd-I for 窶廨et Info.窶 These shortcuts will work on the selected tile, but won窶冲 do anything if no tile is selected.
Choose 窶炉ind Original窶 from any tile menu to see the tile窶冱 item in the Finder. This is an easy way to open the parent folder that contains the tile窶冱 item. Try it now!
If you are using 窶連lways Hide Others窶 so that background applications are hidden, you can temporarily turn that feature off by holding down the Shift key when you click a tile.
If you sometimes type cmd-Q and The Tilery quits by accident because you didn窶冲 realize it was frontmost, choose 窶露gnore cmd-Q to Quit窶 from the Preferences menu.
Did you know you can use your keyboard with The Tilery even without using hot keys? See 窶牢electing Tiles窶 in the Help menu for details.
You can move any tile to any location on your screen, just by dragging it with the mouse. Remembered tiles will always stay where you put them. Automatic tiles will stay until their application quits, or The Tilery quits.
You can窶冲 attach a hot key to an unremembered tile. But you can attach one to a remembered tile and then hide the tile. That way you can have a hot key without cluttering your screen with unwanted tiles.
Having trouble telling some of your tiles apart? Try using 窶狼ile Color窶 in the tile menu, or give the original items custom icons or labels in the Finder, or open the Tile Styles window and put a checkmark in the 窶牢how Label Under Mouse窶 box.
Holding down the option key while clicking a tile will hide the previously frontmost application as the new application comes to the front. This is actually a system-wide Mac OS feature, but it works well with The Tilery!
The menu for the Finder窶冱 tile lists all mounted volumes at the bottom. Select a volume item to open that volume. Hold the mouse over a volume item, and a submenu will appear listing the top-level contents of the volume.
Like folder tiles, volume tiles list the contents of the volume in their tile menus. Selecting any item from the list is the same as double-clicking the item. Sub-menus show the contents of sub-folders.
The Finder tile窶冱 menu has a 窶魯esktop Folder窶 item that lists everything that窶冱 on your desktop. It窶冱 a useful way to open desktop items that are hidden behind windows.
Did you know that you can create hot keys to switch between the two frontmost apps, or to cycle through all your open apps? Choose 窶路ot Keys窶ｦ窶 from the Tiles menu in the menu bar.
To show a tile窶冱 full label whenever the mouse is over the tile, open the Tile Styles window (it窶冱 in the Tiles menu) and put a checkmark in the box labeled 窶牢how Label Under Mouse.窶
If your keyboard has a Control key, it窶冱 a good one to use for Hot Keys. For example, you could set Control-F for the Finder and Control-W for your favorite word processor. The function keys F5 through F15 are good choices, too.
It窶冱 best NOT to remember The Tilery窶冱 tile. That way when you make a remembered tile by dragging to The Tilery, it will appear right under the mouse and The Tilery窶冱 tile will move away temporarily to make room for it.
Put The Tilery (or an alias to The Tilery) into your Startup Items folder to have it launch automatically when you start your Mac. Select 窶炉inder to Front on Startup窶 from the Preferences menu if you don窶冲 want The Tilery in front at startup time.
The best tip we can give you is: Use the Help Menu!ﾂ It窶冱 a complete on-line manual, with pictures and hypertext links like a Web browser.
Welcome to The Tilery! This window will show a new tip each time you start The Tilery. You can turn off the tips by unchecking the 窶牢how Tip at Startup窶 box, but you should read them for a while窶杯hey窶决e helpful!
