Using Advanced Drag-Drop

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It seems that these little tricks here shouldn't be missed. This article is the extension of my other article entitled Using Drag-Drop.

Downloading Image Files

Sometimes you will see a nice looking pictures on the web; You want to download it. Instead of clicking on the image and hence being linked to the place where you can download it. But hey, it's really time consuming. You can just simply drag-and-drop it to anywhere inside your Finder (either Desktop or your local Hard Drive or somewhere else). Is it cool? It's really cool.

Editing Existing Application Shortcuts

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Being quite of shortcuts geek here, it's very essential to know how to change those pre-defined shortcuts into more suitable shortcut. And to our surprise, Mac provides it for us.

There is one shortcut that makes me feel sick whenever I tried to use it, i.e. Select Next Tab on Safari. To perform this action, you will need at least two hands; ] is the troublesome shortcut I mentioned above.

Leopard Tricks : Dictionary

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Adding Reference Libraries

By default, your dictionary's reference libraries shown are Wikipedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Apple. Obviously, you can add more references to it.

First, go to your Dictionary Preferences Pane by either using keystrokes [,] or using menu bar Dictionary ▸ Preferences. Then you will see there are more than four default references which is available for your Dictionary.

100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating Symbols

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These shortcuts are for U.S. Keyboard as input source.

Warning

Some of these symbols cannot be seen.

Let's Start with an Apple

1

Option-Shift-K (Apple)

Mathematical

Leopard - Quick Dictionary and Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

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Actually, you don't need to open dictionary application each time you want to check the definition of a word. You can use 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 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 :

Screen Shots

Zoom

Contrast

Move to

Dock, Expose, and Dashboard

Spotlight

Display

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.

Mac OS X Leopard: 200+ Productivity Booster Keyboard Shortcuts

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Leopard - Quick Look vs. Slideshow

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Quick Look and Slideshow, which complement each other, are masterpieces of Leopard.

Quick Look, which cannot be opened at the same time with Slideshow, is known to be the simplified version of Slideshow. Though so, Slideshow in Leopard, that comes with better resolution, should not be completely buried under the trees. In this article, I will discuss some of the techniques to open your Leopard Quick Look and your Slideshow, that is hidden under Quick Look, at ease.

Toolbar

As I've just said, Slideshow is well hidden under the Quick Look. Hovering your mouse long enough on top of the eye icon, which is the button for activating Quick Look, would definitely unveil the fact that Slideshow is the alternate version of Quick Look. Therefore, holding modifier key change the tool icon from an eye into our familiar Slideshow button.

Leopard - All Shortcut Lists

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Well, all of these can be seen inside Leopard Help Pane. However, this pane is really troublesome that it will always float over other panes. Fortunately, all of them are also provided inside info.apple.com.

How to Navigate into Shortcut Lists Help Pane

1. Choose your Finder as an active window
2. Go to Apple Menu Bar ▸ Help; this can be done using keystrokes ?
3. Search for term shortcut
4. Show the 4th search result entitled Shortcuts for starting up
5. Scroll to the bottom of the Mac Help Pane and click on shortcut lists
6. Now you can see all the shortcut categories

Shortcut Lists on Apple Info

1. Shortcuts for Copying and Moving Files
2. Shortcuts for Dialogs
3. Shortcuts for Exposé and the System
4. Shortcuts for Freezes
5. Shortcuts for Interacting with Items
6. Shortcuts for Menus
7. Shortcuts for Mouse Keys
8. Shortcuts for Navigation
9. Shortcuts for Opening Folders
10. Shortcuts for Selecting Icons
11. Shortcuts for Spotlight
12. Shortcuts for Starting Up
13. Shortcuts for Taking Pictures of the Screen
14. Shortcuts for the Dock
15. Shortcuts for Universal Access Features
16. Shortcuts for Windows

Essential Shortcuts in Safari

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These shortcuts here sure will help you save your time browsing with Safari.

When clicking on link, holding shortcuts..

• .. will open the link in new tab
• .. will open the link in new tab and instantly switch active tab to that new tab
• .. will open the link in new window
• .. will open the link in new window and instantly switch the active window to that new window
• .. will download the link as html file to Desktop

Using shortcuts..

• ..[ will switch the display to the left tab
• ..] will switch the display to the right tab
• ..` will rotate left the windows display order
• ..` will rotate right the windows display order

When clicking on minimize button, pressing..

• .. will minimize all Safari windows
• .. will minimize Safari window with slow motion effect

Also, when pressing , clicking on..

• ..Close Button will close all Safari windows
• ..Zoom Button will zoom all Safari windows
• ..Close Tab Button will close all other tabs in targeted window

Creating Keyboard Shortcut

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Keyboard fans won't left any action unassigned. Luckily, it's easy to assign Application's action for your Mac.

There are several steps to assign a keyboard shortcut to unassigned action. But before that, knowing how to Quit Finder will be useful.

Step 1. Recognizing the Action
The first step is recognizing your action. This means that you should know exactly how to write the action name. These actions name can be seen at Menu Bar. For example, the New Burn Folder action.

Finder Shortcuts for Viewing

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Knowing this basic will be useful for you. Also, this will increase your productivity.

We often use Finder to browse through our files. Therefore, it's very important to know all viewing mode provided by your Mac Finder.
Finder can be opened by clicking on the Finder icon on the Dock.

Finder Master 2

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This article is continued from Finder Master, my other articles, that list down all the combination of and alphanumeric key. This time, I would like to share with you, all I know about combination of and with alphanumeric.

It is really hard for me to explain it all one by one (Will be a long list; I will die and also you will die). Therefore, I compress all into one image, hope you will enjoy my not-so-creative image.

Mac Browser Auto Complete

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It is very glad to know that some of web browsers support very fast auto complete. This is an amazing auto complete that save time to time .com, .org or .net. Not all web browsers support this auto complete feature. This works on Firefox, Flock, and Netscape.

For example, when it is demanded to open url http://www.apple.com/, simply type down apple and then hit , this action will automatically perform update for the url while opening. The same rule apply on .org or .net.

Finder Master

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Become a Finder master is not dream anymore. There are only 20 alphanumerics that can combine with only key.

Here is the illustration

What are those keys function when in touch with ? Let's see

Trash Unused Files, Crush Unused Trash

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Not all files need to be reserved. Sometimes it's just so annoying having such a great amount of useless files. Don't hesitate, trash them, throw them away as far as it can take.

Super-Fast Way of Deleting FIles

In more polite way, it's just proposing retirement to those files. In more rude way, moving them all to trash. The fast way is using ⌫ then the highlighted files will willingly move to the corner side of Dock, Trash can.

How about the slow way? Clk on the highlighted files and from the menu that appears, choose Move to Trash.

Both keyboard shortcut and mouse clicking ways are easy, so why bother with using the slow one, use the fast one will be better.