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Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Paolo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:16:21 -0000

There's also a "general" screen capture shortcut to capture the whole screen.

Command+Shift+3

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Franklin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:16:16 -0000

@Matt - Are you running Tiger or Leopard? Spotlight changed with Leopard to highlight the first result - making it a great way to launch applications. Quicksilver is very nice and much more powerful than Spotlight but if you only use it for launching apps or opening files, why install extra software that you don't need?

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Franklin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:15:25 -0000

@Andy - Good tip, thanks.

@Dustin - Wasn't aware of that one, thanks.

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Matt Moran — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:12:45 -0000

How is Spotlight the quickest way to launch apps? Have you tried QuickSilver? Much, much quicker.

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Dustin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:36:53 -0000

I know it is not a "keyboard" shortcut but Option (Alt) + click on the desktop will hide the active window.

Thanks for the Command Apostrophe shortcut. I knew there had to be a way to do that!

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

andy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:19:44 -0000

Nice post! also so long as your middle mouse isn't being used (for like expose) you can use it in safari/firefox to open link in new tab and in firefox it will also close the link you have the cursor over.

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Franklin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:57:39 -0000

@Ken - I wasn't aware of that one, thanks!

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Ken — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:44:44 -0000

command-` (apostrophe) switches between windows in an application

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Franklin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:21:40 -0000

@zero - That one also works well as a prank when coworkers don't know how to undo it. ;)

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

zero zero one — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:03:51 -0000

I like the CTRL+"scroll" zoom feature. I dont know if it works on all macs but I know it does with my macbook (two finger scrolling) and my g5 (mighty mouse scroll wheel).

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Riley — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:03:24 -0000

Nice post, Franklin. I find your shortcuts particularly useful when my fingers on one hand are covered with Cheeto cheese. I'll try not to leave orange fingerprints on your keyboard when I wage my counterattack for all of those screen color inversions ;-)

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Franklin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:12:32 -0000

@Jay - Thanks for commenting. By the way, I took a look at your website, very nice! Keep up the good work.

Re: Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]

Jay — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:15:23 -0000

Command comma. Very handy.

Somewhere during the past week I read that you can use Ctrl-F3 to switch to the dock and use the arrow keys to move around and select an app. (If F3 is your volume control as it is on MacBooks, you need to add the FN key. Fn-Ctrl-F3.

Another instance when you can skip the mouse.