Here's a nifty thread where you can post 10.1 features you've discovered that are pretty well-hidden, but are too useful to be Easter Eggs....
1. Control-click on a running app in the Dock. Press OPTION and notice that Quit becomes Force Quit.
2. In List and Icon view you can draw a box around items to select them. In Column view you don't see the box, but you can click in the white area to the right of a file/folder's name and then drag to make a multiple selection.
3. The options to show and hide the nifty menu bar icons are nicely hidden in their respective preference panels. Displays and Sound are two places you'll find them. Date & Time lets you turn the clock into an icon too. Combined with the freeware "FuzzyClock" this makes a really nice looking clock. Hold down the command-key to drag the icons around or right out with a poof...
4. You can click anywhere in the menu bar - even a blank spot - to start those icon-menus popping as you move the mouse over them. The same is not true for application menus.
5. In the Keyboard preferences panel there is an option to use the keyboard to control the Menus and the Dock. Control-F1 turns this feature on and off, control-F2 moves the focus to the menu bar, and control-F3 moves the focus to the Dock. In both places pressing Return is like clicking on an item while Escape cancels. And, yes, option-return hides the frontmost application as it launches the selected one.
6. In the same control panel you can enable tabbing between text-fields and controls, or just text-fields. MacOS X is becoming more Windows-like by the minute!
7. Command-shift-3 and Command-shift-4 are back for taking screenshots! They make .tiff files on the desktop. Unlike Classic MacOS you can't take snapshots of windows and menus with the caps-lock key or put it in the clipboard with the control key. 10.1.1?
8. The Finder can now "copy and paste" whole files and folders, just like Windows 95. It's not really hidden, but it's easy to overlook. You'll find it in the Edit menu and at the bottom of the contextual menu that appears when you control-click on a file or folder.
9. Show Clipboard is back in the Finder. (Was it ever gone?)
10. There's an option to use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer. I leave it up to you to discover the location of this wondrous feature.
11. Not strictly a MacOS X feature, but in the new version of Terminal there's a preference to use option-click to move the cursor around in any interactive editor like pico, vi, emacs, or joe, with varying success. It should at least work in any Terminal-based text editor that allows you to use the arrow keys to move the cursor.
... Don't expect to find any *real* Easter Eggs in MacOS X. From what I understand Easter Eggs are now a firable offense at Apple.... Or worse, you might get berated by Steve, a fate worse than death!
1. Control-click on a running app in the Dock. Press OPTION and notice that Quit becomes Force Quit.
2. In List and Icon view you can draw a box around items to select them. In Column view you don't see the box, but you can click in the white area to the right of a file/folder's name and then drag to make a multiple selection.
3. The options to show and hide the nifty menu bar icons are nicely hidden in their respective preference panels. Displays and Sound are two places you'll find them. Date & Time lets you turn the clock into an icon too. Combined with the freeware "FuzzyClock" this makes a really nice looking clock. Hold down the command-key to drag the icons around or right out with a poof...
4. You can click anywhere in the menu bar - even a blank spot - to start those icon-menus popping as you move the mouse over them. The same is not true for application menus.
5. In the Keyboard preferences panel there is an option to use the keyboard to control the Menus and the Dock. Control-F1 turns this feature on and off, control-F2 moves the focus to the menu bar, and control-F3 moves the focus to the Dock. In both places pressing Return is like clicking on an item while Escape cancels. And, yes, option-return hides the frontmost application as it launches the selected one.
6. In the same control panel you can enable tabbing between text-fields and controls, or just text-fields. MacOS X is becoming more Windows-like by the minute!
7. Command-shift-3 and Command-shift-4 are back for taking screenshots! They make .tiff files on the desktop. Unlike Classic MacOS you can't take snapshots of windows and menus with the caps-lock key or put it in the clipboard with the control key. 10.1.1?
8. The Finder can now "copy and paste" whole files and folders, just like Windows 95. It's not really hidden, but it's easy to overlook. You'll find it in the Edit menu and at the bottom of the contextual menu that appears when you control-click on a file or folder.
9. Show Clipboard is back in the Finder. (Was it ever gone?)
10. There's an option to use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer. I leave it up to you to discover the location of this wondrous feature.
11. Not strictly a MacOS X feature, but in the new version of Terminal there's a preference to use option-click to move the cursor around in any interactive editor like pico, vi, emacs, or joe, with varying success. It should at least work in any Terminal-based text editor that allows you to use the arrow keys to move the cursor.
... Don't expect to find any *real* Easter Eggs in MacOS X. From what I understand Easter Eggs are now a firable offense at Apple.... Or worse, you might get berated by Steve, a fate worse than death!
