Today's tip is fresh from Mac OS X Product Manager Ken Bereskin's Weblog (http://radio.weblogs.com/0100676/). It's so cool, and I didn't know it until today.

You know how OS X has three (or four) different Fonts folders? Well, Jaguar adds a new twist - fonts in any of the Font folders can be placed in subfolders and still be recognized. So in any of your Fonts folders you can now organize your fonts any way you like... Create folders for Serif fonts, Sans Serif fonts, fun fonts, display fonts, handwriting-like fonts, typewriter-looking fonts, or whatever you want.

If you use your Home/Library/Fonts folder for this, you can enable and disable groups of fonts -- kind of like Suitcase or Font Reserve might do -- by dragging these subfolders from Home/Library/Fonts to anyplace else. I have a folder called Fonts Disabled in Home/Library that serves me well... it's right below the Fonts folder which makes it easy to move subfolders to and from it.

Commercial font managers are almost essential if you're a pro and have a large font collection. But for many users, it's a lot of money for something they only need occasionally. This Jaguar technique might be thoguht of as the poor person's Suitcase (or Font Reserve, or Font Agent X, or whatever font manager you prefer...)

The tip of the day will be on vacation tomorrow and Friday but will return Monday with a hot new tip about.... well, tune in Monday and you'll find out.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

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Bob LeVitus is a leading authority on Mac OS and the author of 39 books, including Mac OS X For Dummies and The Little iTunes Book.