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I constantly use command-H

Sharewaredemon said:
I was gonna mention the ` tip but someone else did.

That tip about cycling through open windows is very useful. I remember how happy I was when I learned that one.

I can't think of anything that hasn't been .... wait.

When you have the command tab window up, if you press home and end it takes you to the beginning or end of the list.
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Perhaps useful for some, but I find the require of having to hold Fn at the same time to activate "Home" to be more of a pain that useful to scrolling, but I never have more than 15 apps total running (give or take, I think).

I can see how that could be useful for a long list, but otherwise being able to scroll in both directions seems fine since you always start on the left with the app you are in, and then you can just instantly hit left and go to the other end....I trust you all can find the middle from one of those two sides :rolleyes:
 
For people who want to hide apps as they switch back and forth, there is nothing better than this:

Spirited Away

Once running, it will hide all other applications as you switch back and forth between what you have running. Of course, you can set which apps you never want to hide (I have iTunes set to that, for example), and you can also temporarily turn it off completely.

To be honest, I can't stand to use Mac OS X without it.
 
efoto said:
Perhaps useful for some, but I find the require of having to hold Fn at the same time to activate "Home" to be more of a pain that useful to scrolling, but I never have more than 15 apps total running (give or take, I think).

I can see how that could be useful for a long list, but otherwise being able to scroll in both directions seems fine since you always start on the left with the app you are in, and then you can just instantly hit left and go to the other end....I trust you all can find the middle from one of those two sides :rolleyes:
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Yeah it's not that useful for me, and I have a desktop.

Another thing which hasn't been mentioned which I use a LOT
is using the mouse to select the app.

When you press and hold Command + tab, you can move your mouse over the icons and they will follow the mouse.
 
shidoshi said:
For people who want to hide apps as they switch back and forth, there is nothing better than this:
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Wow, this sounds like fun...if I ever go back to hiding apps, I might definitely have to check this out. :)

Can I call it Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi instead, just for fun? ;)
 
Sharewaredemon said:
Yeah it's not that useful for me, and I have a desktop.

Another thing which hasn't been mentioned which I use a LOT
is using the mouse to select the app.

When you press and hold Command + tab, you can move your mouse over the icons and they will follow the mouse.
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Kinda defeats the purpose of a KEYBOARD shortcut, non?

If you're going to mouse to select an app, surely it would make more sense just to select the app via the dock rather than using cmd-tab to invoke, what is essentially, a floating dock - even if you keep lots of unused icons in your dock.
 
munkle said:
Kinda defeats the purpose of a KEYBOARD shortcut, non?

If you're going to mouse to select an app, surely it would make more sense just to select the app via the dock rather than using cmd-tab to invoke, what is essentially, a floating dock - even if you keep lots of unused icons in your dock.
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In essence, but I find that my mouse is more often around the center of my screen as opposed to the bottom. Less movement.
Also, you don't have to click to select the app, you can let go, and then you can be on the way of moving your mouse to where you want to click or something.
 
shidoshi said:
For people who want to hide apps as they switch back and forth, there is nothing better than this:

Spirited Away

Once running, it will hide all other applications as you switch back and forth between what you have running. Of course, you can set which apps you never want to hide (I have iTunes set to that, for example), and you can also temporarily turn it off completely.

To be honest, I can't stand to use Mac OS X without it.
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To bad the author of the program couldn't have been a little more imaginative in naming and had to take the title of a great anime film by one of the greats, Hayao Miyazaki. Even if you don't like anime, check this one out (Spirited Away), it is great.
 
mkrishnan said:
Wow, this sounds like fun...if I ever go back to hiding apps, I might definitely have to check this out. :)

Can I call it Sen to Chihiro no Kamikushi instead, just for fun? ;)
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Haha, at least someone else knows what I was talking about then. Too bad I was too urgent to read through and realize you made a reference to the film before going on my little rant about it.
 
efoto said:
Doesn't sound right to me either. I have a PowerBook and my Expose keys are I believe the standard designations of F9, F10, and F11. I only have to hit a single key to perform the action, no combinations. You can change the settings for that however so perhaps either you changed them and forgot, some changed them for you, or there is too much alcohol involved and your keys are just fine ;)
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On my PB F11 shows the desktop. fn+F9 is show all windows. F9 lowers light of backlight. F10 is brighten up keyboard backlight. F12 doesn't do anything. (maybe because some programs use F12) fn+F10 is focus on window.

Im not crazy or drunk I swear. These are default settings which I havent changed.
 
inlimbo said:
On my PB F11 shows the desktop. fn+F9 is show all windows. F9 lowers light of backlight. F10 is brighten up keyboard backlight. F12 doesn't do anything. (maybe because some programs use F12) fn+F10 is focus on window.

Im not crazy or drunk I swear. These are default settings which I havent changed.
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Continue reading down from that post of mine and you will see that others have already corrected my knowledge base. Mine is as I stated because it is a 12" PB, your PB is as you stated because it is a 15". I was had made an assumption they were the same, but they are not.
 
stridey said:
Hmm... as I saw it, the blob was a way to make Exposé useless... can you elaborate as to why you liked it?
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What is/was the blob? I started on Mac in Panther, so I don't know anything but Exposé. Anyone care to fill me on ''the blob''?
 
efoto said:
To bad the author of the program couldn't have been a little more imaginative in naming and had to take the title of a great anime film by one of the greats, Hayao Miyazaki. Even if you don't like anime, check this one out (Spirited Away), it is great.
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So he named it after the US version of Sen to Chihiro... the big deal is what, and it takes away from his great piece of software how?
 
shidoshi said:
So he named it after the US version of Sen to Chihiro... the big deal is what, and it takes away from his great piece of software how?
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I think it's a relatively light-hearted rant. :) Hopefully efoto will rediscover his name when he was a river god soon, and will not be trapped forever in his dragon form in the spirit world forever. :)
 
Claudia said:
What does F12 do for you? All it does for me is eject dics, or eject air.
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That would be the eject button, which is probably located underneath the same physical button as the F12 button. To push F12, holds the "fn" key while pressing F12/eject.
 
claudia said:
What does F12 do for you? All it does for me is eject dics, or eject air..
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Mine seems to do nothing. 15" PBs have a eject button next to the F12 key. I figured out why F12 doesn't do anything. In MS Word if i press F12 it brings up the "Save As" box. So I guess Apple left F12 alone because some programs like MS Office use it.

Does anyone else use hot corners? I think they are great.
 
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