Comments on: Hidden Airport Details

By: Bhadrul Huda

Bhadrul Huda — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:30:12 +0000

great little trick! i’m new to owning a mac and loving it more and more by the second and this site is amazing; helping us amatuerMacs around the world!!!
Good joob guys!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:25:18 +0000

It should be said that option-clicking on the menu only displays that info for the wireless network to which you’re currently connected. It does not show it for networks to which you are not connected (so if you’re looking for a network, you’re out of luck unless you try it for every one of them).

By: David Austin Allen

David Austin Allen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:08:17 +0000

>By the way, is there any reason besides the quite nasty one for private browsing?
Many of us in other nations of the world use internet cafes because we can’t afford a personal computer or posssibly a laptop when traveling. I hear many public libraries also have computers for patrons in many countries. So private browsing is useful to keep your private things private when using a public computer.

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:07:30 +0000

lucas there are a few cool things with the option key.
Here’s one example: Go to the Safari Menu > Private Browsing…
You’ll get a thing telling you all about this. If you don’t want to bother with this all the time, press Option, and if you click private browsing you won’t get the warning message. (By the way, is there any reason besides the quite nasty one for private browsing?)

Also, if you’re in finder, and you press Option, then go to quick look, you’ll automatically get the full screen display.

If you go to the Apple Menu, press Option, “About This Mac” turns to “System Profiler,” and “Restart/Shut Down/Log Out” lose their “…” so they don’t display a warning message anymore. There are a few more, but I’ll let you find those out.

By: lucas

lucas — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:02:41 +0000

I think this is a pretty good idea… The iStat Pro widget tells you this info too, as well as a bunch of other things. (temp, memory, HD space, fan speeds, etc)

By the way…how many other things show up differently when you option+click them? (i’m new to Mac, and loving it)

By: James

James — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:39:09 +0000

option+click the bluetooth menu icon (if you have it in your menu bar). Thats the one I actually found first. I was clicking through all my menu items. I noticed the BT menu showed me some version info (not much else)… I was surprised to find the extra info in the airport menu. It makes you wonder how many other things can be option clicked.

It’s nice to be able to see AP information without actually using some other app

By: James

James — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:30:17 +0000

I actually found this just then whilst playing with a new access point hahaha. I’ve always been crediting any sources where I find information.

I used to use widget to get this info, this way is way easier, bye bye widget!

By: Scott Bayes

Scott Bayes — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:27:25 +0000

I think you should credit Rob Griffiths at MacWorld for this one; it was posted there just a couple days ago. Or did you really discover it independently?