Cool trick (OSX Only)

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:23 am

Does everyone use hot corners / Expose? I love it when using ReWire, Reason and Ableton to swtich between the programs.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:40 am

I find alt-tab to be a much quicker way to switch between apps.

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:45 am

You mean CMD + Tab right?

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:57 pm

Yeah... and try Quicksilver too: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:04 pm

muscleandhate wrote:You mean CMD + Tab right?

Oops... yep... (working on a PC today that has the alt key where the Mac's command key is!)

forgie · Post by **forgie** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:34 pm

onslaught wrote:
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.

Presumably there is still some glue code required to make the feature work, since I use Camino instead of Safari, but I don't have the Command+Control+D functionality.

Another cool thing that i discovered the other day: when you are in an app that has a document logo as well as the title of the document in the window title bar, you can Command Click on the title to get a drop down list of the directory path to the document. If you select a folder in the list, that folder will open in Finder. This means that if you are working on a file and you're not sure where the file is located, Command Click on the title in the title bar, then click on the first folder in the list.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:22 pm

forgie wrote:Another cool thing that i discovered the other day: when you are in an app that has a document logo as well as the title of the document in the window title bar, you can Command Click on the title to get a drop down list of the directory path to the document. If you select a folder in the list, that folder will open in Finder. This means that if you are working on a file and you're not sure where the file is located, Command Click on the title in the title bar, then click on the first folder in the list.

Absolutely! Use that one all the time.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:40 pm

hambone1 wrote:I find alt-tab to be a much quicker way to switch between apps.

Ditto.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:56 am

forgie wrote:Presumably there is still some glue code required to make the feature work, since I use Camino instead of Safari, but I don't have the Command+Control+D functionality.

It's a service. It's not implemented in the app you take the text from...

onslaught · Post by **onslaught** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:31 am

muscleandhate wrote:Does everyone use hot corners / Expose? I love it when using ReWire, Reason and Ableton to swtich between the programs.

I either use buttons 4 & 5 on my mouse or the function keys (on the qwerty keyboard). I found that when I had 'hot corners' set up that I'd acidently engage Expose when I didn't want to to often. I like using Expose for flicking between an app that has multiple windows open.

Oh yeah, Quicksilver is fucking amazing!

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:19 pm

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

bump because I just realized this is why people complain that their macbook pros can't take a fall it's because of this program.

Rokko · Post by **Rokko** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:05 pm

Something I just discovered - if you are using expose to show all the windows press the spacebar when the cursor is over the window that you want to go to, it will go instantly to that window without having that little pause and flash thing that it normally does. The same works when you are dragging files from one folder to another, just press the spacebar when the cursor is over the folder you want to open.

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:36 pm

cmd + alt + eject key puts the computer to sleep in +/- 2 seconds. cmd + alt + ctrl + eject shuts it down in a similar time.

freqn · Post by **freqn** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:47 pm

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

Nice, fortunately I did it one time instread of 20