Hold down command and click and drag the menu bar icons (the airport, bluetooth, time, sound etc) to move them into the order you like. Unfortunately you can't move third party icons around.
In iPhoto 5 the camera can be ejected in the source area. I don't remember if 4 had this. This is especially useful when I download pictures on my wifes computer. She has easily over 100 things on her desktop (I on the other hand like to have mine clear). Ejecting from there saves me from having to hunt for the camera icon.
Hold down the command key and press TAB. Keep holding the command key. You can now use the arrow keys to scroll through apps. While still holding the command key, you can also press Q to quit the selected app.
Hold down the command key and press TAB. Keep holding the command key. You can now use the arrow keys to scroll through apps. While still holding the command key, you can also press Q to quit the selected app.
You can also use the mouse to point to the app while command-tabbing.
Not related to OSX, but just noticed this on the iMac pages, which I think shows great attention to detail;
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Even when it?s sleeping, iMac thinks about what?s best for you. In low-light environments, a sensor detects the room?s ambient light and adjusts the sleep light to match ? so you and your iMac G5 can both catch some Zs.
When using the arrow keys in iTunes to skip to the next track, hold down Option to skip to the first track of the next album, or hold option and command to fast forward through the current track.
Hold down command and click and drag the menu bar icons (the airport, bluetooth, time, sound etc) to move them into the order you like. Unfortunately you can't move third party icons around.
Thank you! I was wondering if that was possible, and now I know it is!
Hold in the Option key and click the Close, Minimize to Dock, or Zoom buttons. It turns them into Close All, Minimze All, and Zoom All. If you click open the File Menu, and hit Option, you will actually see "Close" change to "Close All".
Additionally, if you have a bunch of windows open in an app, like Safari, and want to close all of them except for a select few, minimize those to the Dock. Option+click the Close widget of one of the remaining windows to close them. All of the Safari windows will close, except those Docked. Then, Option+click one of the Docked window to return the remaining Safari windows to their previous location.
1. If you have just one scroll wheel in your mouse, hold the Shift key while scrolling to go sideways.
2. You can cycle among open windows by pressing the Tab key after launching Exposé. (A neat animation effect).
3. Discovered after Danosaur's tip, you can press Command in the window's title (like Safari) to get the directory structure to move backwards. This is so awesome, but maybe some of you know this.
Really useful in Finder to see where exactly you are (or move 3 folders back, for example)
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You can hold down Command while resizing or dragging a window that's not the current front window, and Mac OS X won't bring it to the front.
--B
Originally posted by Placebo
You can hold down Command while resizing or dragging a window that's not the current front window, and Mac OS X won't bring it to the front.
Actually this is true for any mouse-driven action in a background window. It's not just confined to dragging and resizing.
reg
Originally posted by Danosaur
...you can also press Q to quit the selected app.
Or H to hide an app.
Originally posted by Danosaur
Hold down the command key and press TAB. Keep holding the command key. You can now use the arrow keys to scroll through apps. While still holding the command key, you can also press Q to quit the selected app.
You can also use the mouse to point to the app while command-tabbing.
press cmd/shift/tab to scroll right->left through apps
cmd h hides and app to be "maximized" when scrolled through app
click title bar twice to "minimize" app (can be turned off but default)
Even when it?s sleeping, iMac thinks about what?s best for you. In low-light environments, a sensor detects the room?s ambient light and adjusts the sleep light to match ? so you and your iMac G5 can both catch some Zs.
Originally posted by danielctull
Hold down command and click and drag the menu bar icons (the airport, bluetooth, time, sound etc) to move them into the order you like. Unfortunately you can't move third party icons around.
Thank you! I was wondering if that was possible, and now I know it is!
Additionally, if you have a bunch of windows open in an app, like Safari, and want to close all of them except for a select few, minimize those to the Dock. Option+click the Close widget of one of the remaining windows to close them. All of the Safari windows will close, except those Docked. Then, Option+click one of the Docked window to return the remaining Safari windows to their previous location.
2. You can cycle among open windows by pressing the Tab key after launching Exposé. (A neat animation effect).
3. Discovered after Danosaur's tip, you can press Command in the window's title (like Safari) to get the directory structure to move backwards. This is so awesome, but maybe some of you know this.
Really useful in Finder to see where exactly you are (or move 3 folders back, for example)
This thread it great!
CMD-click onto the title of any document, e.g.
word, preview etc. --> a pull down menu pops up
showing you the actual path of the file. still better,
navigate through the menu, release the curser on some
folder you want, the finder will open the folder you
selected. Gorgeous.
2. documents to mail
If you are working e.g. in "Word" and you want to
attach the frontmost document to mail,
--> click onto the little icon left to the title bar,
wait a second until the little icon is highlighted, than
drag the icon to the docked mail icon, voilá...
The same way you can move documents around.
3.safari and stickies (or any other text/pic.app)
open stickies.app, open at least one stickie. go to safari.
within safari make a selection, drag the content via exposé
onto the stickie, release the mouse button. enjoy.
Originally posted by alliancep.s.i
press cmd/tab to scroll left->right through apps
press cmd/shift/tab to scroll right->left through apps
cmd/~ will also scroll right->left once you've brought up the app switcher with cmd/tab.
type your the name of the app you want to open
command-enter will select the top hit and launch it.
voilÃ*! a very fast launcher! ;-)
Originally posted by bergz
When in iTunes, without going up to the search field, type part of the name of the track you want to hear.
--B
Actually that works in other parts of the OS too, like in finder, just start typing the name of the file.