Comments on: What’s your favorite keyboard shortcut combination?

By: Tommy Peters

Tommy Peters — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:26 +0000

Minimize a window – cmd+m
Maximize it – cmd+tab+opt. Then release tab

By: Jason STein

Jason STein — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:30:30 +0000

vi(m) ctrl-p word completion; Probably saves a million keystrokes a year.

By: CapitalD

CapitalD — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:54:20 +0000

Cmd+Shift+T in Firefox reopens the last closed tab (anytime in your current session). It always feels like you’re turning back time…

By: Anson J

Anson J — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:03:56 +0000

When I got my first Mac ever — a MacBook — I had the hardest time trying to figure out how to ::open:: a selected Finder item. Return just edits the name… and I was stymied for several months. Finally, after some research, I found cmd + downarrow. What a relief.

My personal favorite, though, is cmd + delete. I love that “thunk” sound of sending something to the trash.

By: Gussy

Gussy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:57:58 +0000

must say, being new to mac. love all the features that people are saying. my fav at the moment it getting expose going and then cmd + ` between the windows on that screen. so many features i don’t know about!

By: Junior

Junior — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:06:13 +0000

Control+F2 to access the main menu bar, then arrow key right and left to navigate forth and back across the menus. One tap of arrow key down will reveal the drop down menu as you glide across with the left/right arrow keys. Further up/down arrow keys to move between items in selected menu. (Arrow key up first will start at the bottom of the menu!) Return or Enter chooses the selected item. Specifically great (and lazy) to see what’s available in an unfamiliar app.
Control+F8 to access the right side of the main menu bar.
Control+F3 to access the Dock items.
These always makes me feel vaguely godlikeâ€¦

By: Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:33:02 +0000

I use cmd+shift+q to log out a lot. Add an “alt/option” and it skips the confirmation menu.
also two shortcuts i couldn’t live without are cmd+t for a new tab in safari or firefox and subsequently cmd+w to close the tab

and ted naleid, to delete all content in the current field you can also press shift+up arrow

By: Ted Naleid

Ted Naleid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:19:02 +0000

I love keyboard shortcuts, but the current one that I’ve been getting myself to learn is:

ctrl-u – deletes all content in the current field

Seems simple, but it’s amazing how often I want to clear out the current contents of a field and start over. It also works well on password fields when I know I’ve messed up the password, but not how badly and I just want to start over.

By: William

William — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:43:00 +0000

I use “space” for the move cmd in almost all Adobe products – esp. Illustrator which I use all day at work. Then the “cmd” key is also a time saver to switch between current tool to last used pointer.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:20:11 +0000

i like command-shift-5

it’s the hot key for a selectable screen capture using Skitch, one of those honest-to-goodness must haves for anyone doing daily screen, or user-selectable portions of screens on a daily/hourly basis.

i’ll not do a review here. just reiterate it it a different way. if you’re not skitching, you’re wasting xBox time.

P.S. In case there’s a bandwagon to jump on, let me hop on by saying the current slew of barely decipherable-by-humans let alone bots words of Captcha really sort of suck.

P.P.S. In case this is a duplicate post, please blame it not on me, but on Captcha.