Comments on: Become a Mac Power User: General OS X

By: Pet Snakes

Pet Snakes — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:04:25 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:52:43 +0000

JLA.

Your bang on with the control F2 to access the apple menu etc…
FYI you can use control F3 to access the dock and control F8 to access the menulets.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:55:38 +0000

@Alexander – it’s ZumoDrive – http://zumodrive.com/
Allows me to sync files between computers and an iPhone app.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:59:28 +0000

I am wondering about what is this “cloudy mobileme” icon on the menubar. Could you say to me, please?

By: JLA

JLA — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:33:59 +0000

@Nick – I have Quicksilver, and it is very nice. Combined with Spotlight (for searching the contents of files), the search capabilities are impressive.

What I want is a way to open the File menu (or other menus) without using a mouse or know every multi-key combination for every application. Turns out there is an answer – CTRL-F2. It selects the Apple menu, which you can then arrow over to the menu you want. Not as good as menu hot keys, but a huge help!

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:22:25 +0000

@JLA – you could use Quicksilver as Yasser points out here – http://theappleblog.com/2006/11/01/quicksilver-does-menus-too/

By: JLA

JLA — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:35:28 +0000

@Richard – Ah. I was hoping for a system-wide keyboard shortcut.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:07:05 +0000

JLA: I think what you mean is how do I get the drop down menu in a menubar? Well you have to remember what they all are first (experience) and then its just natural. Or you can go into System>Keyboard & Mouse and then just add shortcuts to your applications. Hope that makes sense!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:30:22 +0000

I just found out recently about “Drag and Drop Anything.” I dragged an email into The Hit List and made a new task with the link to the email. Dragging an email into any app and creating a link back to that email is a invaluable feature :)

By: JLA

JLA — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:22:31 +0000

Well, for the love of pete, would you mind explaining to me how I can access a File menu without a mouse/trackpad? Just that one little thing would make my life with this MBP much easier.

Wouldn’t mind having consistent text editing key mappings across all applications, too. See Gmail vs. OpenOffice vs. TextEdit vs. Eclipse etc etc etc