TeXShop and BibTeX for lazy guys - automatic call of bibtex

If you want to write a larger scientific document, like a diploma or doctoral thesis, you surely will use bibtex for creating your bibliography (and especially for the German guys: don't just copy and paste... but really use a good bibliography).

Teaching my Mac the correct encoding for LaTeX files from Windows

Opening my Windows tex files in TeXShop resulted in unreadable umlauts and special characters due to the different file encoding (I normally used ISO Latin 2 on Windows). Of course, if you take the "Open File" dialog, you can choose the encoding at the bottom in a drop-down menu, but this takes some time and it is simply much easier to double-click...

You can, however, set the standard encoding to be used in the "Settings" dialog under "Source" in the field "encoding" (I defaulted to ISO Latin 2).