Bob showed us some of his son's videos
of the space shuttle and space station used for training NASA astronauts. John
brought his recently-published 'Apple' book of beautiful photographs taken on
his recent trip to Mexico. Tom shared some of his favorite Mac shortcuts and
time-savers. Unfortunately, we ran out of time before all of them could be shared.
He obviously didn't pick the best time-savers. : )
FAVORITE
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Command
Shift 4 (the best reason to own a Mac) - capture any part of
any picture or text on your desktop or website - the image is saved to the Desktop
in OSX as a PNG but can be converted to JPG, GIF, TIFF, etc. Command-Shift-4
then Spacebar
- click to capture a picture of an active window (works great for live Skype)
Command-Shift-3
captures the entire Desktop, including top Menu and Dock Command-Delete
sends a selected icon directly to trash Command-Shift-A
to quickly open your Applications folder on Desktop Command-P
opens Print dialog (or drag file to Printer Icon for one print) Command-A
selects all files or text in window Command-C
copies all selected items Command-V
pastes copied items into new window or file Command-Q
to quit active Application Command-E
ejects a selected disc or disc image Control
click (same as Right click on mouse) launches contextual menu
Power button, then Enter
is the fastest way to properly shut down your mac
TIP: Keyboard shortcuts can be customized
in System Prefs > Keyboard & Mouse
FAST FIXES Command-Option-Esc
force-quit an application caught in the Spinning Beach Ball loop Command-Control-Power
Button forces a reboot of your Mac laptop (the famous 3-finger
salute)
WEB BROWSER TIME SAVERS Command
- [ (left bracket) will return you to previous webpage Command
- i will open Mail with complete HTML of that site with active
links Command-Shift-i
opens Mail with website link only Command-Control-D
pops up a dictionary for each word hovered over Command-Option-D
hides or unhides Dock Command
+ (plus) increases size of font on webpage Command
- (minus) decreases font size on webpage Spacebar
causes webpage to scroll down exactly one full page
OTHER COOL TRICKS & TIME SAVERS
- - - Option
click the 'flippy arrow' by a folder to expand
it and all subfolders within
- - - Fast alias
- while holding down Option-Command,
click, hold and drag an original icon
- - - Double click to select a word- Triple click
to select an entire sentence or paragraph
- - - F9 Key - press to see all current open windows
- - - Invert colors on screen Command-Option-Control-8
(System Prefs>Universal Access).
- - - Turn on Zoom effect: Command-Option-8
then zoom in/out: Command Option +/-
- - - Dock Pop-Up - drag a copy of a folder (such as Applications)
to Dock - then click and hold on dock folder to launch a vertical column of
all its content
- - - Enlarge or shrink the Dock by dragging the divider line
left or right
- - - View a folder of Images side by side, full screen in
Preview SlideShow - see how
- - - Print a Pocket-Sized Address Book - read
how here
- - - Make a PDF of any image or file - just use PDF option
found in Print dialog box
SPECIAL ACCENTS AND SYMBOLS - tildes, acutes,
umlauts, circumflexes, cedillas and other bad things said by cartoon characters
are all hidden on your Mac keyboard. Just open any word processor (such as TextEdit)
and give them a try. See charts here
OTHER DISCOVERIES Office Live
- create a free website for your business or group - need Firefox or IE to edit. weebly
- free website design and hosting - one of Time's 50 Best Websites of the Year PDFLab
- merge multiple PDF files, images and even parts of PDF files into a single
PDF using this free application - OSX Tiger (download
3.3mb) . See screenshots and more info here.
NEWS Skype could shut down over legal dispute. Earlier this year,
Skype filed a claim in London against Swedish company Joltid, which is controlled
by Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Skype has been owned
by eBay since 2005 which paid $2.6 billion for it. (Read
more)
Snow Leopard: 64-bit Reality
What does 64-bit mean for the average
user? For most home users, absolutely nothing. (Read
more)
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or go directly to the NonFrames version here
- then navigate to the page you wish to bookmark or print.]
Hammondsport Mac Users Group
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Option
click the 'flippy arrow' by a folder to expand
it and all subfolders within
Fast alias
- while holding down Option-Command,
click, hold and drag an original icon
- tildes, acutes,
umlauts, circumflexes, cedillas and other bad things said by cartoon characters
are all hidden on your Mac keyboard. Just open any word processor (such as TextEdit)
and give them a try. 
