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Friday, December 20, 2013

BECOMING THE ULTIMATE MENU MASTER

BECOMING THE ULTIMATE MENU MASTER

Want to really speed things up? How about jumping right to the Apple menu without even clicking the mouse? Just press Control-F2 and the Apple menu pops down. Oh, but there’s more! Now that you’re in the Apple menu, press the Right Arrow key on your keyboard to move to the other menus (Finder, File, Edit, View ,etc. )and the left Arrow to move back, once you get to the menu you want, use the tip I mentioned earlier: Type in the first letter of the command you want and it jumps right there, then press Return to choose that command (and you did it all without ever touching the mouse).



A FASTER WAY TO GET YOUR SYSTEM INFO

If, some reason, you run into some serious problems with your Mac (hey, it could happen), you might have to tell Apple tech support, a repair tech, or a Macintosh consultant some technical information about your particular hardware and system software configurations. Luckily, all that information is found by launching Apple’s system profiler. The only bad news id it’s buried deep within your Applications folder, inside your utilities folder. Here’s the tip: there’s a quicker way to get the Apple System profiler. Just go under the Apple menu and choose about this Mac. When the dialog appears, click on the button at the bottom called more info and it launches the Apple System profiler for you.



FINDING SYSTEM PREFERENCES FAST BY SORTING ALPHABETICALLY

If you’ve been using Mac OS X for a while, you’ve no doubt noticed that the System Preferences window puts all the individual preferences in horizontals rows, sorted by four categories (Personal, Hardware, Internet & Network, and System). That’s great, if you know exactly which category to look under, but if you’re new to Mac OS X, you might prefer a feature introduced in Jaguar-sorting the preferences alphabetically it’s probably located near the end of the list. To sort your System Preferences alphabetically, first open the System Preferences Window, go under the View menu, and choose Organize back by categories in the View menu.



SHORTCUT TO HIDE YOUR APPS 


This simple keyboard shortcut is one of my favorite features When you’re in the Finder, you can hide all of your running applications from view by pressing Option-Command-H (the shortcut for hide other’s, which is found under the finder menu .)Ahhhh, to me that alone was worth the upgrade price (okay, it was almost worth the upgrade price). 

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