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Top 10 Mac Shortucts

Scuba Steve — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:46:24 +0000

After chatting with Adam one afternoon, and him asking me about a keyboard shortcut, I thought I would share my top 10 Mac keyboard shortcuts! Let me know what you think of mine, and maybe which one I would have left out. Trust me there are plenty!

10 ) CMD T. New tab in Chrome/Safari/Firefox
9 ) CMD, ESC. Front Row access.
8 ) OPTION, CMD, D. Show/Hide dock. Nice to have sometimes when the dock gets in the way.
7 ) SHIFT, CMD, DELETE. Empty Trash.
6 ) CMD, “x” / “c” / “v” / “s” Cut, Copy, Paste, Save (These are almost on any system, but still nice!)
5 ) Shift, Click to minimize. Matrix style window minimization.
4 ) OPTION, CMD, ESC. Force Quit applications
3 ) CMD, SHIFT, 3 or 4. Great easy way to take a quick screen shot.
2 ) CMD “w” or “q”. Close or Quit program.
1 ) CMD, SPACE. You can do almost anything with this, it opens spotlight.

What’s your favorite shortcut? Leave a comment below!

Scuba

Guess for Next Weeks Apple Event

Scuba Steve — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:15:10 +0000

As we all know Apple’s big event is next week (January 27th 2010), so below I am listing my thoughts on what we will see released / announced.

-Announcement of iSlate (Apple Tablet)
-Macbook Pro with Quad Core Processor
-iWork / iLife ’10
-iTunes with cloud support and online listening of own library
-iPhone / iPod Touch 4.0 software
–Multi tasking is one feature I hope to see
-MacPro with 6Core Processor
-24″ iMac with Touch Screen

What are your thoughts for the event? Let me know in the comments!

ScubaSteve

Disk Inventory X

Scuba Steve — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:32:52 +0000

Recently I was running out of space on my hard drive and I was trying to find where some possible big files were hidden on my drive taking up a bunch of space. I went out and found a program called Disk Inventory X. This helped me map out by file type and group together where big files were on my drive. It only took about a minute and it had my entire drive mapped out for me. This program is a great way to help find those big files or to help clean up cluttered drives!