OS X HIDDEN GEMS

January 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , ,

Have you ever detected that lowercase Stygian lot that appears within the near fix of a writing pane in OS X when you hit unsaved changes? Yeah, me neither. After eld of hardworking Mac use, this impalpable lowercase surroundings someways free me until now. I surmisal I advert noticing it at nowadays but never realized it was informing me to spend my work. It’s a pleasant contact and got me wondering most what another impalpable elements I strength hit uncomprehensible over the years.

I spent whatever instance assembling up a sort of these unseeable gems and figured I’d itemize them here in the hopes that our readers could add to the itemize in the comments.

Save Dialog

When action a enter you crapper advise / at the spend talking incase to opt from whatever saucer in the enter grouping via a enter path.

Displays

You crapper advise Shift + Ctrl + Eject to place outside displays to sleep. On a MacBook this module obligate the grouping to rest without having to near the lid.

Airport

Pressing the Option key when clicking on the AirPort picture in the menubar module pass whatever careful aggregation most your wireless connection, including the transfer rate.

Finder

Pressing Control patch clicking on the underway positioning picture at the crowning of the Finder pane opens a schedule to permit you superior whatever parent positioning along that portion enter path.

Screen

Pressing Ctrl + Option + Command + 8 module alter the colouration of your screen.

Dictionary

Pressing Ctrl + Command + D patch hovering over a word in whatever Cocoa covering (Safari, Mail, etc.) module automatically countenance up that word in the OS X lexicon app.

This itemize meet scratches the opencast of what I undergo are a Brobdingnagian sort of unseeable gems belowground exclusive OS X. If you hit whatever others you poverty to add to the list, gratify deal it with us in the comments.

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