The Tips - Mac Kung Fu - page 147

but it can also be chosen from the widget selection—click the plus icon at the
bottom left, and then double-click the Calendar widget to add it to the
Dashboard.
Creating at the Command Line
I also make use of an old Unix command-line tool called CAL that's included
by default with OS X. Open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the
Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal
within the UTILITIES folder), and simply type CAL at the command prompt to see
the current month in a calendar view. To see another month, type the short
version of its name along with the year. For example, to see June 2013, I'd
type CALJUN2013 . To see an entire year, just type CAL2013 .
The NCAL command is almost identical but switches the axes: days are listed
as a column at the left side, rather than as a row along the top. Add the -W
switch, and you'll also be told week numbers: NCAL -W 2014 will show dates for
2014 and also the week numbers.
Tip 131
Add Magical Links for Email, Messages, Web, and More
You might be used to inserting web hyperlinks into documents or when
composing emails (click Edit→Add Link and type the address). Whenever
anybody clicks the link, they'll visit the site you specified, just like in a web
page.
In addition to links to websites, OS X lets you create app-specific links. For
example, you could include a link in a mail message that, when clicked, will
start within the Messages app an instant messaging conversation with
somebody. You could create a link in a document that, when clicked, looked
up a particular word in the Dictionary app.
To create a link in a TextEdit document or new mail window, highlight the
text you want to serve as the link, and click Edit→Add Link, or hit COMMAND + K .
Then look to the following list for what to type into the Create Link dialog box.
(Of course, you could simply paste or type a web address too.)