I can’t explain it.

I just discovered that one purely by accident … I was aiming for Cmd-Shift-D and missed!

WHY don’t Apple go to some lengths to advertise these things?

Select a word, then Cmd-Ctrl-D: a pop-up dictionary definition is displayed.

:-)

As for me… perhaps a bit later this year :-)

P.

She has also kindly offered a free copy of this bundle for me to give away. I thought that I’d give it to the best comment on this post.

Just add your best tip now to be in to win!

Cmd-{ and Cmd-} will work in both.

Again, a keyboard combination that you’re just not going to discover until somebody shows you.

Maybe they do this on purpose to try and flush out blog posts like this?

(Need to try Quicksilver…)

I’ve been on a Mac for 6+ months now, and one thing that abosolutely kills me: changing between tabs in Firefox or Safari. Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn is so easy on the PC (with a standard keyboard), yet tabbing between tabs in Firefox on the Mac feels so much more painful, and I can NEVER remember the correct shortcut key for switching tabs in Safari.

Cmd+Space – jumps to spotlight (type calculations as ‘cmd+space 3*5′, start apps with ‘cmd+space first_few_letters’).

Bind the middle mouse button (button 3) to exposé then use that to switch applications. Note that Cmd+Tab still works, but switches apps not windows. Also, press Cmd+Tab but hold command and you can press tab to select different apps – note that the “list” that appears can be navigated with a mouse also.

Remember to right click (or control click) apps in the dock to get a context menu. Occasionally very handy, especially with the Activity Monitor.

It’s easy to get extended character ‘accents’ from other languages. Hold down option, then the character it’s usually over … example Option+e then e gives é … Option+u then u gives ü … Option+u then o gives ö.

You can drag/drop files onto the “choose file” button of a standard HTML upload form. BTW, as a “mac” thing just try drag dropping pretty much everywhere – it’s implemented in a lot more places than Windows and they’re very handy once you spot them.

Finally use iShowU HD (http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html) to do screencasts of various descriptions – everything from little 30 second “this is how you do this” emails to your mum to full screen captures that get resized on the fly and compressed to 720p … and a cool capture mode that’s great for webapps.

(disclaimer: I don’t work for swb but I used to, and love ‘em)

Dave

Command+Shift+3
Captures the entire screen and saves it as a file

Command+Control+Shift+3
Captures the entire screen and copies it to the clipboard

Command+Shift+4
Brings up a rectangular marquee tool and then saves it as a file

Command+Control+Shift+4
Brings up a rectangular marquee tool and then copies it to the clipboard

Command+Shift+4 then Space bar
Captures a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and saves it as a file

Command+Control+Shift+4 then Space bar
Captures a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copies it to the clipboard

The biggest “secret” key combination in my opinion is Cmd + Shift + 4 for “print screen”. I just can’t believe that they remove the print screen button from their proprietary keyboards, and then make the combination to do it so mysterious.