Comments on: Cool things on Mac

By: if

if — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:17:27 +0000

the inverted screen works on Firefox

By: mysterian

mysterian — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:59:20 +0000

@ Adam: If you press F9, the expose feature will activate and display all open windows at once.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:34:44 +0000

Hi, i didnt know about the minimizing slowly thing. Thanks. I cant believe some of these people didnt know about the inverting colors! My whole skool knows how to do it. its a pain in the ass though. One thing i do hate about macs is the fact that when you press alt tab it will only cycle through the apps and not all of the windows. Also if you are using a mac that is a work one or a school one and you cant get into system preferences there are two things u can do: 1. go into i photo and get a picture and choose “set as background” Or 2. Go into Safari and go “Safari” – “Preferences” – and then “Connection settings”. This should get you into access some of sys preferences. bt not all.

Thanks

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:22:13 +0000

Just a comment for k and others on the invert colour trick only producing B&W on OS 10.3.x.

It’s not that Panther isn’t cabable of doing the colour inversion, it’s that the system just is set to jump to invert/grayscale with the shortcut.

You can get the inverted colours by going to Universal Access in System Preferences. Click on “display in grayscale” and it will actually make it inverted colour. It’s supposed to say “display in colour”, but because you used the kb shortcut, the button didn’t get toggled, but it will still do what you need it to do. Now if you do the shortcut trick again, it will bring it back to white on black, then once again to bring it to normal.

Or, you can simply do it all from the UA prefs pane. Your choice. It’s easy to have all the options there, since it just takes a command+tab press to toggle between any app and the pane.

Hope that helps. Great site… loved learning about the shift slo-mo trick. Apparently this will also work on other graphical OS fx as well, like selecting your user name on the login screen.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:45:57 +0000

Re: Screen Capture
Shift-Cmd-4 will give you crosshairs to select your capture area with, but if you hit the space bar, the crosshairs will become a camera that will capture the entire window.

I find this screen capture stuff very helpful!
Thanks for the inverted color tip! Talk about a sight for sore eyes!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:56:23 +0000

Hold command and move your two scrolling fingers on the tracking pad and it zooms in on the screen (need to activate it in system prefs.) same thing as the mighty mouse. Neat-o! No more eye-strain for little details on photoshop!

By: Mankaiii

Mankaiii — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:23:06 +0000

try to hold down ctrl en zoom in with the mighty mouse
neat trick because now you can zoom in and out on your screen

By: Omni

Omni — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:45:23 +0000

The window-screen capture is amazing. I just wish I’d known about it years ago. As a graphic designer, every time we need to make a presentation on a Web Design, we add a “dummy” browser window around the Design, but we always had to “Photoshop” the rounded corners on the top. With this tool we just take the snapshot and voila!

By: Ormo

Ormo — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:30:01 +0000

Windows 95 had the text clip thing. You could drag some text to the desktop and it would make a scrap. Whats more it didn’t just work for text, you could drag anything draggable in any application that is OLE compatible and it would create a scrap for you. Then when you opened it it would fire up the relevant application and open the document you selected it from. Along with the OLE reference the selection itself was stored in the scrap and the scrap could be dragged into another document or application and the data from the scrap was loaded into the application.

It was dropped in Windows 98 due to obvious security issues and microsoft received no feedback asking about it.

By: CrimsonCrow

CrimsonCrow — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:52:59 +0000

tintin said: “clicking on the title of a webpage in Safari while holding down command displays a complete file directory back to the root directory.”

Thought you might like to know that this is not just true in Safari but true of any open window. Has been for as long as I can remember, all the way back since I started using MAC in OS VI. :-)

PS Great site Mike!