How can I jump to the selected object in the out-liner, I've got over 200 objects in my scene, all named cube.___ ... and I can't seem to find my selected object. How can I jump to it?

I have a scene with a lot of objects which can clutter the outliner very quickly. Is there a shortcut to find the selected object? Basically, if I select an object, I would like to have a shortcut to move my outliner view to include that in the displayed portion of the outliner.

I know you can add a loopcut using Ctrl+R, but I want to know how to specify how many to add, i.e. add 15 loopcuts to a plane. I know you can manually use the scroll wheel to get this number, however this can be quite tedious.

how can I increase the number of Loop Cuts with my Apple Magic Mouse. Normally it is with the scroll wheel, but that does not work with the Magic Mouse. And I know that I can change the number of cuts afterwards, but sometimes the cuts then are unproportional. Even if I set the cut right in the m...

I am new to Blender. I downloaded a .obj file of a plant model. When I unzipped it I found two files (.obj and .mtl). I imported the .obj file and I couldn't do the same with the .mtl to apply the material and the textures.

I am not sure if this functionality exists, but I seem to remember seeing it somewhere. Basically what I want to do is to be able to set a margin where an image texture will blend (fade) into itself, making a smooth transition. Does this option exist? Is this even a feasible feature?