Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Keyboard Shortcuts for your Mac

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am always looking for things to make computer use easier since I use it so much. Appleology has come across some very useful Keyboard shortcuts that I’ll be employing from now on (Link via TUAW).

Why use the mouse when you don’t have too?

Using the control key, and several different function keys (F2, F3, F4, F8), you can navigate through many key parts of Mac OS X with your keyboard alone.
Holding down the control key with:

* the F2 key enables you to navigate with the left side of the menu bar.
* the F3 key enables you to navigate the dock, using the left and right arrow keys to move between icons and the up and down arrow keys to view the navigate thought the contextual menu.
* the F4 key enables you to cycle through all of the open windows.
* the F8 key enables you to navigate through the right side of the menu bar. (Only works with some menu bar icons.)

Note that on laptops you must also hold down the FN key.

There you have it. Moving through the dock mouseless is now as easy as pie.

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