Exposé is great to quickly find open applications or a specific window inside an application. We introduced you to Exposé in this post.
Today let’s explore how we can control Exposé only by using the keyboard.
Previously we looked at how we can find menu items only by their name with the help of the search feature of the Help menu item, available in every application.
Today we will find out how we can use a feature of Butler to imitate us, pressing keys on the keyboard. Doing so, will allow us to open menu items that you can’t create a shortcut for, using the built-in methods of creating keyboard shortcuts, described in this post.
In programs with a lot of functions in the menus (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) the menus can get pretty big. Even though you know what you’re looking for it can be quite a task to actually find what you’re looking for.
Well… no more thanks to a new feature of Leopard.
A lot of actions are targeted at a set of document, pictures, music tracks, files, etc. So it’s important to know, how you can quickly select stuff.
The methods described in the following work in almost every program. No matter, if you are selecting files in Finder, picking photos in iPhoto or highlighting words and paragraphs in a word processor.
Obviously, this is not the most interesting and stunning post, but once you know these simple methods, you won’t have to think about them anymore. It’s like riding a bike.
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Some readers of Mac Kindergarten wrote in, that they had trouble with the tutorials mentioning the functions keys.
Here is how to make the function keys do what you want.
An Apple keyboard is a thing that takes some time to get used to, especially for switchers since not all the symbols a key can produce are printed on it.
In the following we will find out, how to have multiple input languages and how to produce all kinds of different symbols and characters, without to need to switch the input layout (e.g. writing €, $, £, ¥, ©, ü and ¡ - all from one layout).
Even in the times of excessive mouse usage, the keyboard still remains the quickest way to work on your computer (PC and Mac). In the following we will present a couple of essential keyboard shortcuts.
As you start to get more comfortable using your Mac, keyboard shortcuts provide a great way to do things quickly.
Mac OS X has great support for keyboard shortcuts. For now, we will only look at the most basic ones.