November 25, 2007 in Leopard, Popular, Tips and Tricks | 5 Comments
ADVERTISEMENTS
Actually, you don't need to open dictionary application each time you want to check the definition of a word. With Leopard, you can trigger your word definition checking (Dictionary) on-the-fly. Like this :
Quick Dictionary
Snapshot above is taken when I looked up a word definition in dictionary. What I have to do is I just need to put my pointer above certain word then I pressed Command-Control-D and I got this small pop-up dictionary pane right in front my eyes.
Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
If you looked inside System Preferences ▸ Keyboard & Mouse ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts, there will be a long list of keyboard shortcuts. These all shortcuts can be customized by Double-Clicking on top of the shortcut symbol and filling in new keyboard shortcut.
Here is all the keyboard shortcuts that can be customized inside :
| 1 | Toggle Front Row | Cmd-Escape |
| 2 | Quick Dictionary | Cmd-Control-D |
| 3 | Help | Cmd-Shift-Slash[/] |
Screen Shots
| 4 | Snap Whole Screen | Cmd-Shift-3 |
| 5 | Snap Whole Screen to Clipboard | Cmd-Control-Shift-3 |
| 6 | Snap Certain Area | Cmd-Shift-4 |
| 7 | Snap Certain Area to Clipboard | Cmd-Control-Shift-4 |
Zoom
| 8 | Activate Zoom | Cmd-Option-8 |
| 9 | Image Smoothing | Cmd-Option-Backslash[\] |
| 10 | Zoom Out | Cmd-Option-Hyphen[-] |
| 11 | Zoom In | Cmd-Option-Equal Sign[=] |
Contrast
| 12 | Increase Contrast | Cmd-Option-Control-Period[.] |
| 13 | Decrease Contrast | Cmd-Option-Control-Comma[,] |
| 14 | Invert | Cmd-Option-Control-8 |
| 15 | Toggle VoiceOver | Cmd-F5 |
| 16 | Toggle Full Access | Control-F1 |
Move to
| 17 | Menu Bar | Control-F2 |
| 18 | Dock | Control-F3 |
| 19 | Next Active Window | Control-F4 |
| 20 | Toolbar | Control-F5 |
| 21 | Floating Window | Control-F6 |
| 22 | Text Boxes and Lists | Control-F7 |
| 23 | Menu Bar Status Menu | Control-F8 |
| 24 | Other Window within Application | Cmd-Accent[`] |
| 25 | Window Drawer | Cmd-Option-Single Quote['] |
| 26 | Toggle Character Palette | Cmd-Option-T |
Dock, Expose, and Dashboard
| 27 | Hide/Show Dock | Cmd-Option-D |
| 28 | Show Spaces | F8 |
| 29 | Show All Windows | F9 |
| 30 | Show Application Windows | F10 |
| 31 | Show Desktop | F11 |
| 32 | Show Dashboard | F12 |
Spotlight
| 33 | Search Field | Cmd-Space |
| 34 | Window | Cmd-Option-Space |
Display
| 35 | Decrease Brightness | F14 |
| 36 | Increase Brightness | F15 |
These shortcuts haven't received much changed compare to Mac OS X Tiger. Only Front Row, Quick Dictionary, and Spaces are considered new on Leopard.
Keep Up to Date
We will come up with more and more interesting topics over the time, make sure to keep yourself up to date using RSS Feeds or Email Subscription.
Related Entries
Some articles taken from our resource base, tightly related to current article, to empower you with more knowledge on tweaking the most out of your Mac.
5 Comments
Jay
Great tip that should be shouted from the roof tops. Thank you usingmac.com.
Reply | Back to Top
kambizpascia
great blog thank you In fierfox dont work ctrl+mac+D ?
Reply | Back to Top
nick
I second that the quick dictionary command doesn't work in Firefox (2.0.0.10)
Reply | Back to Top
Isaac
Quick Dictionary and the Front Row shortcut were both in tiger. They are not new to leopard. There was even a quick tip video for quick dictionary months before leopard was released. Thanks for the collection of shortcuts. bookmarking.
Reply | Back to Top
Melina
very interesting. i'm adding in RSS Reader
Reply | Back to Top