More cool stuff on your Mac
Fri, 17 November 2006
We all know about Command-Tab function on Mac and Alt-Tab on Windows. But what if we have multiple windows of the same application, Safari for example, and want to switch between them?
Command-Tab won’t be of any help as it will give us only one window of each application to deal with.
I guess quite a few people didn’t know this, myself included. You simply press Command-~ (tilde). That’s the key just above the Tab key on your keyboard. Sweet and simple.
Another cool thing I figured out while fooling playing around with my Mac. If you are in any cocoa application and select some text, press Command-Shift-Y and the text is automatically stored in a sticky note on your desktop. A perfect reminder right before your eyes.
Not only this works with the text, but the hyperlinks will be stored as well, which is nice.
Images? Well… yes, see below. I was really surprised to see it capturing an image and also being able to save it.
Another way of capturing the selection is if you click on Application name in the menu bar, select Services and then Make New Sticky Note.
And no, it doesn’t work in Firefox.
Read my earlier article Cool things you can do on Mac for more tips.
[tags]OS X, Cool, Stickies, windows[/tags]
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Rube said: Sat, 18 November 2006 at 00:28
On a German keyboard, you press cmd-< to get to switch document windows. Unfortunately, a few programs, notably Nisus Thesaurus that comes with writer, hijack this and, in Nisus’ case, refuse to change it.
That’s cool with the stickies; didn’t know that.
Mikael said: Sat, 18 November 2006 at 00:40
The command tilde trick has never ever worked for me. I resorted to Switch ( http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch ).
Cuthbert Rumbold said: Sat, 18 November 2006 at 09:47
Check out “Witch”
http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch
Uses Option-Tab to cycle through all possible windows (open or not)
subcorpus said: Sun, 19 November 2006 at 01:30
thanks for the tip …
used to know that … but forgot over time … :(
Mark said: Tue, 21 November 2006 at 02:03
Tilde is not above the tab key on all keyboards. On UK keyboards it is to the left of Z, and works as you described.
It lookes like this: ~
Mark
Yakov said: Fri, 24 November 2006 at 02:33
witch is best.
Guissella said: Tue, 16 January 2007 at 05:45
Control + Scroll-Wheel (on your mouse)
You can zoom in and out by pressing Control and scrolling the wheel on your mouse (scroll up to zoom in, scroll down to zoom out).
mike said: Tue, 30 October 2007 at 10:24
for firefox to tab between tabs, press control+tab and you can switch back and forth from tabs
ZEKE said: Wed, 7 November 2007 at 01:23
HEY IM ZEKE I LOVE THIS PLACE ITS MY FAVORITE AND I LOVE YOU MOM
Nancy said: Thu, 22 November 2007 at 22:43
for me switching between tabs works best using ctrl-tab
Robert said: Wed, 5 December 2007 at 03:38
>And no, it doesn’t work in Firefox.
Works in opera just fine though.
matt said: Fri, 7 December 2007 at 10:31
I would also like to add that when you are in the cmd-tab menu thing, if you press cmd-q if will quit the application that is highlighted. I love my mac : )
Quocuy said: Sun, 9 December 2007 at 18:48
Ctrl-shift-y can not copy an image from safari to stickies, in leopard and the hyperlinks too
Quocuy said: Sun, 9 December 2007 at 18:54
Sorry, Command-shift-y can not copy an image from safari to stickies - in leopard - and the hyperlinks too
Alex said: Tue, 8 January 2008 at 11:31
hey rube, everybody, its really command tab and then “~” is just used to scroll left where as tab is used to scroll right
Jack said: Wed, 26 March 2008 at 23:24
Hiya ppl
wat i dont understand is that if you speak to a apple salesman guy he/she doesnt describe any of the features you guys have said. I bought my mac recently for the media editing programs and certain features, however i didnt know the half of all this. i think its all brilliant and thanks for sharing
odeon said: Sat, 10 May 2008 at 08:14
You can drag n’ drop pictures to sticky notes in Leopard, it makes more sense if You copy the text related by the picture by pressing Shift+Apple+Y and then drag a picture itself.
Thanks for a useful post.
polly said: Fri, 25 July 2008 at 05:28
I want to try the command-tilde thing, but I have the Spanish keyboard on my MacBook. Any Idea where I can find a list of the shortcuts on my computer?
Loulabelle said: Wed, 20 August 2008 at 13:48
Hi,
I discovered today that when in a webpage, pressing COMMAND + i will open a new mail message with the entire web page in the mail message.
COMMAND + Shift + i will open a mail message with the link.
Kage Tora said: Sun, 24 August 2008 at 21:46
Tilde on a Japanese keyboard is two keys to the right of ‘0′ (zero). On the same key are ＾ and へ. Needless to say, the shortcut didn’t work for me. Oo(>..<)oO
Leigh Kilberman said: Sun, 16 November 2008 at 06:51
omggg this is sooo cool..if u press ctrl, alt, command, and 8 all at the same time then ur screen turns negative looking and it awesomeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
snarf said: Sat, 14 February 2009 at 08:37
if you do Command+Esc you can go to Front Row
dutta said: Sun, 15 February 2009 at 04:02
To increase contrast use
ctrl+Option+cmd+>
to decrease contrast use
ctrl+Option+cmd+>
Jacky Boy said: Sat, 21 March 2009 at 00:07
I did the color trick change trick to 4 of the macs at bestbuy then casually walked away this sales guy was freaking out and had to get 2 more people to try and get it off they couldn’t though. Then steve jobs walked in and changed it! lol that was fake! But i got the guy to give me $25 itunes card to fix it so i did!
Megan said: Wed, 15 April 2009 at 22:24
In reply to dutta’s comment on Sun 15 February 2009 at 04.02, why don’t you just use the contrast up and down buttons on your keyboard?