Do you find it as annoying as I do thatMac OS X adds the word “alias” every time you create an alias? (I know,previous versions of the Mac OS did that as well, and it annoyed me there too.)Well, you can bypass the “adding-the-word-alias” uglies altogether by holdingthe Option and Command keys and clicking-and-dragging the original file outsidethe Finder window it’s currently in (I usually just drag mine to the desktop).

This creates an alias without the word “alias” attached. (Note:Don’t worry, you’ll still know it’s an alias, because its icon will have a tinyarrow at the bottom left-hand corner.)