OS X Tips and Tricks and Hotkeys
 

Let's do a collection of Tips and Tricks or Gags or our beloved operating system.

Ctrl+Win+Alt+8: Inverted screen, looks weird in color. Windows, have no shadows anymore, they are glowing :)

holding F12: opens and closes the master DVD drive, Win+F12 the secondary (if you have one)

holding ctrl + F12: opens the logout/restart/turn off requester. This is the fastest way to turn off a mac: Hold ctrl + F12 a while and press return.
This if especcially useful if you have no display connected or a gfx driver problem.

Tips for Expsose: I always put 'All Windows' in the lower right corner and Spaces in the lower left corner. 'Show desktop' is on the middle mouse button.

Spaces: Only use one row with 4 colums. So you can easily swith through all 4 screens with Crtl and Crsr-left.

ctrl + mouse wheel: zooms the whole screen content

Could we please collect the hotkeys with apple keys (Win?...) :-D

I can't believe that most of you use Windows Keyboards? How can you?!

I use the following shortcuts a lot:
- Full screenshot

- Crosshair to allow selection of screenshot area

- Camera to capture specific screen object

win+(left|right) - previous word, next word
alt+(left|right) - start of line, end of line
does work with shift for selection.

while trying to figure out why the ctrl+winkey+alt+8 trick doesn't work i stumbled upon a crazy key combination Ctrl+alt+winkey+7, to use it click on the apple logo (just for example) and hold the key combo, your menus will go crazy :))

A very useful hot key, renaming files fast

To quickly move files/folders to the trash:
then to empty the trash:

Guys: Don't use always these quotes, the threads are getting to long with them.

R0GUE: alt + left click doesn't work for me, either Mac Alt/option key nor Windows Alt key.

Other hotkeys:

empties the trash even if protected or used files in it (be careful!)

let you open directories, even hidden (try /volumes)

To get info on a file/folder; highlight it then:
To create a new folder press:
To open Spotlight menu quickly:
To open Spotlight:

shift-alt+winkey+backspace
^to empty the trash without warning^

shift+left click close button
^ to close a widget in slow motion^

alt+drag
^let's you arrange the items in the menu^

winkey+alt+d
^hide/unhide dock^

btw, my favorite (unix) way to start applications is to open spotlight (mapped it to win+space) and type first letters of the application name. That's not exactly same as running apps in e.g. Linux/KDE, but you get more features like built-in calculator ;)

Just found a cool new shortcut, you can quick preview any file by selecting it and pressing the space bar or Command + Y

Using Alt + Command + Y you can start a diashow with the selected files (pics). On a Win keyboard it's Start + Alt + Y

A really useful shortcut is pressing Enter (return) key when an item is highlighted and then you can rename.. So you don't have to Right Click, I mean Alt-Click, and press rename! :)

You can also do this by clicking the icon first and then and click on the name.