Comments on: OS X Hidden Gems

By: Pooley

Pooley — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:59:54 +0000

does anyone know how to get rid of that annoying little blimp whenever I change the audio volume using my keyboard?

By: itguy51

itguy51 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:05:29 +0000

The dark dot means that the current open window has unsaved changes if anyone wants to know

By: Taiga07

Taiga07 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:29:16 +0000

Cmd + Shift + Y places selected text into a new Sticky Note

By: Wikisnoodle

Wikisnoodle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:12:48 +0000

Great list. (Tip 1) If you tab your way around window and dialogue box features, you can use ctl+F7 to toggle between (a) tabbing around all features (à la Windows) and (b) text boxes and lists only. (Tip 2) 10.6-only, I think – Application/Dock Exposé is available in cmd+tab: make sure you have several windows open in, say, Finder, press cmd+tab, highlight Finder, keep cmd down and click up or down arrow key, use all arrow keys to navigate and return/enter to ‘open’ highlighted window. Who needs the Dock? :)

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:16:47 +0000

I don’t know what I’d do w/o Launchbar. The most useful app on my MBP without a doubt.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:21:51 +0000

That should be just Ctrl-Command-1/2/3/4/5/6 – see the View > Arrange By menu.

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By: william

william — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:30:25 +0000

A couple of other things to add about this. It’s great if you need a quick calculation and you don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard. Command+Spacebar opens spotlight. Just type the calculation and wait (don’t press return or enter). Then to get back to typing, press the escape key twice and you’re right back where you were in mid-sentence with your hands still on the keyboard.

By: william

william — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:45:11 +0000

Command+Asterisk is the shortcut to a system wide service to “Get result of Applescript” in the Services menu. When you activate it, you’ll see the Application’s menu (e.g. TextEdit) flash briefly. It should work in any app that uses the standard Cocoa text interface. It doesn’t understand math the same way the Spotlight shortcut does (e.g. put 5! in spotlight and it will come up with 120, but this script apparently doesn’t know how to recognize a factorial).

Whole books have been written about Applescript and Services, so if you find something like this convenient, you may want to look into Snow Leopard’s greatly overhauled Automator, Applescript and Services menu features and see if you can make a tool for yourself.