Simple Mac OS X tips

[Maritan]

This is the same as above? What is the control + click? Isnt it just click?

Control+click is the equivalent of right clicking a 2/3 button mouse. And it's quicker than clicking and holding on a folder in the dock. Ctrl+Click gets the menu out immediately as opposed to clicking and holding, for which you have to wait a couple seconds.

 

[dukemeiser]

Command+Option+W closes all windows in the frontmost application.
Command+` cycles through open windows in frontmost application. (` is left of the "1" key)

 

[Panopticon]

Anyone familiar with Quark Xpress' little hand-grabbing quick key?

Mac OS 9 used to have it as 'option-[hold down] click', and now OS X has 'apple-option[hold down] click'.

This is cool for navigation inside the finder - simply put the pointer anywhere that's white, and click and hold 'apple-option'. If your window is smaller than the contents of the folder, you can now grab it like you would the pasteboard in QX [option<?>], or in the Adobe suite of applications [spacebar].

Incedentally, MS Internet Explorer 5 has this function as well... I've migrated to Safari and really wish Apple would add this key into it... its better than that scroll bar, or using the scroll wheel on the mouse.

 

[glosterseagul]

bounce

 

[MacMaik]

Instant zoom

Enable accessibility options. Now combine Command with your mighty-mouse's scroll-ball or mouse scroll wheel. Whoohoo instant zoom.

When your mac is hung, hit the power button short enough to push it into sleep mode. After wake-up, usually Finder spotted that an application was not behaving well. Was a life saver for me!

Time Machine can be made to work with non-Apple NAS devices and over SMB shares. You'll need to create a sparsebundle filesystem on your harddisk first (google for the instructions).

command-space to get to spotlight, type few characters of the application you need to start. Hit enter. No need for 30 apps in the dock. Other people use QuickSilver.

Command-T opens a new tab in the Terminal window.