Computer Zoom

Have you ever ran into a problem with reading text or want a close-up? Try pressing the control key while scrolling to zoom-in when using your mouse. To scroll down on a page, remove your finger from the control key and just scroll down.

Easy Volume Control

By default, pressing the F4 and F5 keys will make a click sound for each keypress that moves volume down or up, respectively. But holding down the shift key while pressing F4 or F5 suppresses the click. (You can also turn it off permanently in System Preferences, Sound, Sound Effects. By the way, you can also open Sound Preferences panel directly with Option-F5.)

Show only one window

Hold the option key while selection an application in the dock, and all other windows will be hidden automatically, it may not always work with Finder windows.

View all files in Stacks

To view all files from a stack hold the command button while clicking on the stack which will take you to the root folder where the files for that stack is stored.

Set exact volume levels

For those who like a perfect and exact volume level, this is for you. While holiding the shift and option key along with your designated volume key at the same time your volume will be broken up into smaller pieces.

Close Widgets

While in Dashboard, instead of clicking a + button at the bottom left corner to get the X for closing a widget. All you have to do is mouse over the widget you want to close and at the same time hold the alt/option key and the X will appear. This trick works with Tiger as well as Leopard.

Finder title bar trick

Did you know that you can click and drag the little folder icon in a Finder window’s title bar to copy/move the folder to another location? A secondary click on the title or the folder icon brings up a context menu listing the parent folders of the currently selected folder.

Hide Dock

Option-Command-D hides the dock and whenever you mouse over at the bottom of the screen it appears again.

Empty Finder Window

The quickest way to get to an empty desktop or Finder window is to use the keyboard shortcuts, Command-up arrow which skips windows to view different windows as an integration with Spaces.

Auto Quit: Printer

Ever get annoyed by your printer queuqe staying open all the time. To stop that annoyance just right-click the icon on the Dock and select Auto Click in the menu, from now on when finished printing the document, your printer’s application will always quit.

Keyboard Shortcuts For Your Every Need

It’s raining keyboard shortcuts, UsingMac.com provides a useful and well one of their articles happened to be keyboard shortcuts, the link below includes over 200 keyboard shortcuts to satisfy every taste: http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/21/mac-os-x-leopard-200-productivity-booster-hotkeys 

Time Machine: Back Up Now

Ever created a file and save it? Well, I have and you want Time Machine to immediately back up the file just simply plug in your external hard drive and right-click Time Machine icon and click Back Up Now. S -I-M-P-L-E!!!

Safari Surfing Trick

Have you ever been in such a hurry to get to the bottom of the page or top but can’t find a Back to Top link. Well, now every webpage you visit using Safari has one, sort of. Hit Command and up arrow to go up and down to scroll down. Easy as pie!

Printing

Ready to print a file with no optional preferences? Just hit Command-P and then Enter and be ready for your file to print immediately.

Saving Documents as PDFs

Adobe’s PDF format allows great ways of formatting, communication and ability to send letters and electronic documents. But there really is an easy way to transfer documents using Microsoft Word and TextEdit including other word processors to PDF format. Simply hit Command-P as you would go to Print but click the PDF dropdown menu instead of printing and then click the option, Save as PDF… and a dialog windows opens, enter the name of the document including Author, Keywords and Subject and be sure to save the file in the right place you may then search for the file in Finder or Spotlight, your choice and ta-da you have created a PDF file!

Selecting Items

 key will give you the effect of toggling; It means that you can change the select/deselect status of certain items.

When keystrokes A is pressed, all items will be highlighted. It’s powerful, isn’t it? And one more thing, with this keystrokes, all highlighted items won’t be marked as Read, they will stay in their current condition. It’s all about using  key.

Super Zoom in Leopard

 I was exploring and tampering with my keyboard and found like the coolest amazing trick ever. You need an external mouse with a trackball or what I call a scroll wheel. Hold the Ctrl key down while you scroll up with your trackball to zoom in. You are still able to activate and control clicks and everything in super zoom. You feel like you are inside a new world. Scroll down with the trackball until you are at your normal screen.  Merry XMAS! -Lane 

Find Router Details

If you control-click on the airport icon on the top menu bar you will find that the wireless device connected to the computer shows useful information about your router. If there are multiple networks in your area you can mouse-over one of the devices and then a small yellow appears to the right of it and displays 2 options.