[HOWTO] - Cool Keyboard/Mouse Combos

[owaters]

That was a complete nightmare, it certainly did not turn out to be completely cool! There doesnt seem to be any way changing back to colour without restartig. Once I had restarted, all my dock icons had been reset to the default icons, many preferences had also been changed. I think apple should remove the ctrl-optn-comm-* shortcut!

[symphonix]

Owaters: press the combination again and it flicks back.

Here's a neat one for iTunes. Option-Click the random-play button to reshuffle the list!

[owaters]

Originally posted by symphonix
Owaters: press the combination again and it flicks back.

I tried that several times and it didn't work.

[kalantna]

10.2.6: hold down the OPTION key and shut down, restart, or log out from the apple menu. It's automatic. No "Are you sure..." prompt.

[AxsDeny]

Originally posted by David Simmons
Anyone found a keyboard combo to open the CDROM drive from a non Apple Keyboard?

Just hold down f12 for a second or 2, it will pop open. Do it again to close it.

[AxsDeny]

My favorite keyboard combo is holding down the shift key and then pressing the yellow minimize button on a window. The window goes to the dock in slow motion. Hold shift and click an item in the dock and it maximizes in slo-mo as well.

I don't know why it's in there... but it sure looks cool on new graphics cards.

[Arden]

owaters: The control for that function is in the Universal Access preference pane.

Deny: That effect works perfectly well on my iMac, and it's ever so cool (though completely inefficient).

[zootbobbalu]

Just figured this out, or maybe I knew this once and already posted it (but I'm too lazy to read this entire post to see if it's been posted before).

You can scroll horizontally with the scroll wheel of you mouse (if you have one) by holding down the shift key as you scroll away. This is really useful in a column view in the finder when you are deep within your file system.


Enjoy!! (or maybe re-enjoy)
--zootbobbalu