CMD+F1 : Toggle between mirroring and extended desktop modes.
CMD+F2 : Auto-detect an external display.
This is especially helpful if your built-in display stops working and you connect an external monitor, only to find yourself with an extended desktop background image!
Press Control + T to swap the two characters before the cursor. Appel > Apple
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.
People already know that you can turn on the zoom option in finder (System Preferences/Universal Access option). Very useful, mainly on presentations, and the shortcut for that is “Command + Option + =” to zoom in and “Command + Option + -” to zoom out. It also works with “Control + Mouse Scroll”. However,
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