Apr 12
I was just fooling around with the menubar in Finder when I found that if you press the ‘option’ key you get some different options. Try it. Click on the Apple (top left) to show the menu, then press “option”. Notice some items change? Try it on the other menu’s (file, edit, etc).
One cool trick, if you click the apple menu, then press option you will notice the dots disappear from some items. If you click the ’shutdown’ menu item the machine will shutdown without that pesky confirmation message. Neat!
April 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
“Menu’s” is the possessive form, the plural does not take an apostrophe.
April 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I think that any option in the menu bar that also has a keyboard shortcut that can be modified with the option key will reflect the changes when you press option. So for example, in finder, CMD-A will ’select all’, while option-cmd-a will deselect all. This is reflected when you press option in the menu bar. It works in all apps that have the relevent shortcuts.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Lyle, lay off the grammar mate.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:30 am
What a useless first comment to this post!
… anyway, I noticed after playing with this tip that if you click an icon in dock of an open application, it hides all other windows and just shows that application.
This option key seems more useful than the alt key was in windows..
Thanks for the tip!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Cool! Thanks for the tip Edward. Tres handy.