Cool trick (OSX Only)

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:50 pm

Press the

ctrl alt CMD and 8

buttons on your keyboard, it's the same to change back.

CMD button is the Apple button btw.

Have fun.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:51 pm

so what does it do?

noiseconjecture · Post by **noiseconjecture** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:59 pm

yeah I like that - but why i wonder?

substance_g · Post by **substance_g** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:01 pm

How bizarre. Cool trick though

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:03 pm

It just inverts the monitor lol. I've no idea what it's for, but it looks kinda cool. Makes Ableton look retro.

Another good one is to hold down CNTRL and use the touchpad to scroll. Also, if you want to arrange application windows without bring them to the foreground, hold CMD down and drag them round.

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:19 pm

it's for people who are sight impared, you can find the setting (and others) in the Universal Access pane of System Preferences.

bluskreen · Post by **bluskreen** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:12 pm

try holding ctrl & scolling up & down (you may need a mighty mouse). it zooms the screen in & out while centering focus on your pointer.

jerry123 · Post by **jerry123** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:25 am

the negative thing is for graphics guys I believe.

mechcon · Post by **mechcon** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:01 am

actually it's changed under the Universal Access (accessibility) for vision impaired people.

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:37 am

Place your pointer over a word and hit CMD + ctrl + D

Cultivate yourself

forgie · Post by **forgie** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:01 am

That last one is a Safari thing, not an OSX thing unfortunately.

I didn't know about the Command+Dragging a background window thing, that's neat.

Try holding down shift then tapping F9 20 times as quickly as you can!

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:21 am

forgie wrote:That last one is a Safari thing, not an OSX thing unfortunately.

Works fine in Text Edit and on any HTML, doesn't work in Word, or iTunes. Not on PDF's but rtf and others work.

onslaught · Post by **onslaught** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:50 am

Machinesworking wrote:
forgie wrote:That last one is a Safari thing, not an OSX thing unfortunately.
Works fine in Text Edit and on any HTML, doesn't work in Word, or iTunes. Not on PDF's but rtf and others work.

It's a Cocoa app thing

So any app that has been built with Cocoa it should work with.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:46 am

forgie wrote:Try holding down shift then tapping F9 20 times as quickly as you can!

hehe...

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:07 am

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macsaber
another macbook trick, i couldn't belive it