So you may already know this but I stumbled on this by accident. Anyway if you want to switch between windows in the same program (documents in Pages for example) then you can hold the command key and hit the `~ key (the one above the tab) and that will change the window but not the program. I find it very helpful.
I hope everyone doesn’t already know this one. Quarkomatic mentioned that you can move the Finder’s title icon around and do all kinds of things with it. Did you know that you can do the reverse with the Finder button bar just below it?
You can take a file and add it to the buttons in the button bar, and click on it to open it. If you put a folder there, Finder will go there, or you can put things in it without having to open another Finder window. You can do the same thing with applications, but what’s really neat is if you want to open a file in different applications, instead of going through menus, you can just drag it to whichever of your application buttons you want to open in!
By pressing alt/option + volume up/down/mute you jump directly to the audio settings in the system preferences.
When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop or desktop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen bezel. However, by pressing Shift and Option along with the volume key you want to use, you can break up each large step in the volume control bezel into four parts, instead of having to use the menu bar item or System Preferences for fine-grained control.
I think this is leopard only, if it isn’t please let me know…
I accidentally stumbled on this little trick. While in the dashboard, instead of clicking the little plus in the bottom left corner to get the X for closing a widget, simply mouse over the widget you want to close while holding alt/option and the X will appear.
* note from James, This also works in Tiger, a classic!
Here’s one that Hugo has E-Mailed in, I don’t think we’ve mentioned this one on the site yet!
You probably know that you can move windows between spaces, but do you know that you can move spaces themselves and change their order?
Just open Spaces, click on the background of a space and move it.
Thanks Hugo
Maybe this is something widely known but I stumbled upon it just recently:
When you activate Expose in Application windows mode (F10) you can use Tab to cycle through all apps’ application windows in current space.
A neat little trick, that’s available if you don’t have the shortcuts for Spaces set to Command + <number> (I use alt + number, as that will leave the command option available to change views in the Finder window as well.
If you have favourites displayed on your bookmark bar in Safari, you can have quick access to those bookmarks by pressing Command + <1 - 9>. Safari will immediately open the window to the appropriate url. A neat little trick, that will save you from actually clicking the bookmark.
