Question about my new MacBook Pro

[BumpnThoseBeats]

Hello everyone, this is my 1st post in this forum for I am a new member....

I have a question about my MacBook Pro which I purchased not long ago....

I used to have an iMac 20 and there was a snapshot function in which the hotkeys were command+option+S

I use this function quite a bit, but for some reason I cannot figure out how to use the snapshot function on my new MacBook Pro.

I got the other snapshot function to work which takes a pic of your whole screen and saves it on your desktop as a .png file. The hotkey for this function is command+shift+3

If anyone could tell me how to get the snapshot function to work that would be GREATLY appreciated


-Bumpin-

 

[Neil321]

Command + shift + 4

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

thanks neil, i appreciate your help

 

[Neil321]

That's OK,welcome to MR's

 

[alphaod]

If you hit the space bar after you do the Cmd-Shft-4, you can use the window capture functionality.

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

thats awesome, thanks for the tips! but i have another question....

for some reason the backlight for my keyboard is disabled and i cant figure out how to enable it. when i hit f5 or f6 is doesnt light up my keys and i dont see anything under system preferences that talks about this

any ideas?

 

[ncmason]

This should answer your question:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8560.html

 

[jjahshik32]

Whoa I only knew about the cmd and shift + 3 for the snapshot of the whole desktop but I never knew about the 4 and pressing the space bar! That's awesome!

Its the same thing as when I learned about safari's dictionary 3 years ago! When you put your mouse cursor over a word you want to define in safari and press and hold control and command while pressing the "D" that shows you the definition.

Wow we learn something new everyday!

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

COOL!

thanks ncmason,

also jjahshik32, thanks for the safari tip

you ppl are pretty much awesome in my book

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

anyone else have any awesome tips/tricks that i should know about?

 

[ncmason]

You're welcome. Take a look at my site if you want to see some great Mac OS X tutorials I've written.

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

SWEET! - you should put a link to that in your sig

 

[sharulazlan]

if you want to install window into your mac, can refer to my site

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

i used to run parallels but i have to get windows again b4 i get it all setup - any pointers?

 

[killerwhack]

Utility - grab

anyone else have any awesome tips/tricks that i should know about?

I like to use the utility in the Applications/utilities folder, named grab.

Just do a spotlight search for grab. It is quick and easy.

 

[killerwhack]

Get Vmware Fusion

i used to run parallels but i have to get windows again b4 i get it all setup - any pointers?

I had parallels but VMware Fusion supports direct x on winblows.

Parallels does not.

 

[BumpnThoseBeats]

VMware? not familiar with that, i only use winblows for a few things thats why i used parallels, dont actually do a bunch of work on it, just use it for minor things like viewing an xls document or sumthin lil like that

but that grab thing is neat

 

[alphaod]

VMware? not familiar with that, i only use winblows for a few things thats why i used parallels, dont actually do a bunch of work on it, just use it for minor things like viewing an xls document or sumthin lil like that

but that grab thing is neat

I love VMWare; I personally prefer it to Parallels because VMWare makes the same software for Windows and Linux so you can transfer your virtual machines to other computers.

VMWare has a beta right now that you can try out:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion

thats awesome, thanks for the tips! but i have another question....

for some reason the backlight for my keyboard is disabled and i cant figure out how to enable it. when i hit f5 or f6 is doesnt light up my keys and i dont see anything under system preferences that talks about this

any ideas?

The backlight won't come up if your environment is bright enough. To see if that's the cause, make sure you're in a spot where it doesn't work and put your hands over both speakers grills; if your screen dims and keyboard backlight comes up that's the cause; otherwise it could have been disabled in System Preferences-->Keyboard & Mouse-->Keyboard