Keyboard Access to All OS X’s Dialogue Boxes

You don’t need to reach for the mouse when OS X throws a multi-button dialogue box at you.

Scripts and Tricks for Twitterrific

While we wait for a power user release of Twitterrific, here are a few of my own tricks and scripts that make the little app more usable for me.

20 Essential Tricks for Web Browsing in Safari

Right now I’m stranded in Firefox land and, although Firefox has a lot to offer, it’s made me conscious of all the little things I take for granted when browsing in Safari. These are a few of those ‘little things.’

Photo Booth Keyboard Shortcuts

Every now and again I rediscover something every new Mac user already knows: Photo Booth is loads of fun. Here a few Photo Booth shortcuts.

Strip formatting from Clipboard text

Macworld offers up some quick tips to strip formatting from the clipboard. I mostly work in plain .txt files so it’s not a huge problem for me, but it can be extremely annoying when pasting text from the web into an email, for instance. Hold down the Option key when you press Cmd + [...]

Command + ‘=’ in Dashboard to bring up Widget Panel

If you want to change which widgets are displayed in your dashboard, you just click the ‘+’ symbol in the bottom left corner to bring up a panel of your available widgets. But you can also bring it up by hitting Cmd + ‘=’ – which I discovered by accident by means of a [...]

Know Your Mac – Top Ten Secrets of a Power User

Macs are easy to use, but they also allow for significant customization. Here are 10 tips to help you become a Mac power user.

Excellent Google Search Keyboard Shortcut

Select some text in Safari and hit Command + Shift + L and a new tab will open with Google Search results from your selected text! I had a whole AppleScript doing this for me before I found the shortcut…

Cmd L in Finder for Alias

I seem to discover a new keyboard shortcut daily. Command + L while a file or folder is selected in the Finder will create an alias! So much faster than right clicking and selecting Make Alias from the contextual menu.

10 Awesome Photoshop Keyboard Shortucts

Smashing Magazine’s top 10 Photoshop productivity shortcuts. Great list! Unfortunately, it’s for a Windows install of Photoshop. No problem. Just substitute ‘Ctrl’ for the Cmd key and you’re off and running for the majority.