Random things you've discovered about your Mac/Macbook

[PardonTheWait]

I remembered more.

Spotlight can do sums, handy for working stuff out in a hurry.

Close a Safari window involving multiple tabs all at once using CMD + Shift + W

Select a bit of text in any app, drag and drop it onto the Safari dock icon to Google it

You can make a PDF from any app that can print, there is a button in the bottom left of the print dialog which also includes the supremely handy 'Mail as PDF' option

When you drag a file to somewhere on the hard drive, instead of waiting for the folder to flash and let you in, space bar will make it open immediately. Quick Look has pretty much ruined this though.

 

[geekyEd]

I love this thread thanks, mrlol (flv tip) and PTW (spotlight sums and drag google) you sirs are owed an e-beer.

 

[Phate]

I'm gonna play tetris at lunch

 

[Draeconis]

Alt + Click on WiFi icon and it'll show a load if information about your connection; signal strength, transfer rate, connection type (a/b/g/n) etc.

Alt + Click on Audio icon and you can select Audio I/O devices from the volume menu!

Open Terminal, type 'say' then anything you want, and your Mac will say it!

 

[Wingz]

Type emacs into the terminal, hit enter.

Then ESC + X at the same time.

Type tetris, hit enter.

Play tetris.

other games available

gamegrid
mpuz
5x5
gametree
pong
animate
blackbox
gomoku
snake
blackbox
gomoku
solitaire
bruce
handwrite
cookie1
spook
hanoi
decipher
landmark
studly
dissociate
landmark
life
doctor
meese
yow
dunnet
meese
zone
morse
zone
fortune
mpuz

 

[Blackhawk47]

Now thats awesome.

 

[MikeHunt79]

You can drag an app to another space by dragging it and hitting the kb shortcut for that space at the same time

 

[Sarah Hastings]

Quite handy short cuts. I like the gaming shortcut the most. It means that I can be a master in Mac now. This thread is really awesome

 

[sbi5ar]

This thread is awesome thanks for all the quirky tips

 

[PardonTheWait]

CMD + full stop will do the 'cancel' or 'no' option on nearly all dialog boxes.

The 'Cancel, Don't Save, Save' boxes use the shortcuts:

CMD + . - Cancel
CMD + D - Don't Save
CMD + S - Save

 

[Sarah Hastings]

@PardonTheWait : I don’t know for what reason but it didn’t work for me when I hold CMD + fullstop… etc

 

[sorn21]

Nice one, gonna test these tonight!

 

[Spyhop]

CMD + full stop will do the 'cancel' or 'no' option on nearly all dialog boxes.

Things (task management) uses that as a positive, i.e. ticking a todo's box, odd!

 

[PardonTheWait]

@Pardonthewait : I don’t know for what reason but it didn’t work for me when I hold CMD + fullstop… etc

It doesn't work on everything (most of Apple's pro apps it doesn't work on, oddly) but it works on the majority of stuff. Mail, Pages, Keynote, Numbers etc. As well as Adobe stuff.

 

[TriedandTested]

Just found this one out:

CMD + ` (the key next the the left shift which has this on it as well: ~) together switches between windows in the same app, i.e. if you have two Word docs open it switches between them rather than CMD + Tab which switches between apps.

 

[hendrix]

Just found this one out:

CMD + ` (the key next the the left shift which has this on it as well: ~) together switches between windows in the same app, i.e. if you have two Word docs open it switches between them rather than CMD + Tab which switches between apps.

FINALLY!

Been looking for something quicker like that for when I have multiple word documents open other than with exposé!

 

[TriedandTested]

Ha! Same here. Quite a relief!

 

[iraiguana]

cmd + ` = best find here bar none!

Thank you so much!

 

[fez]

cmd + ` = best find here bar none!

Thank you so much!

I was pretty happy when I found that one too. Lots of ftp windows open was madness without that shortcut.

Cmd + shift + 4 allows you to drag and take a screenshot.

Cmd + tab cycles through programs open, adding shift will cycle backwards through them.

 

[Spyhop]

Hold Alt + Shift when using the volume keys and you can adjust in finer increments than the squares.