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Here is a good list of many, many Mac OSX Hotkeys. It originally started at 90, but is updated every week or so with a different application specific group of hotkeys. I will post a PDF soon if it is in demand. Here we go:

Note: Hyphens between keys like: “⌘-N” mean press keys at the same time. Also, ⌥ is the Option Key, ⌘ is the command key, and ⌃ is the Control key.

Startup Keys

# Hotkey Description
1 X Force Mac OSX Startup
2 ⌥-⌘-Shit-Delete Bypass primary startup volume and seek different startup volume
3 C Attempt to boot from CD that has a system folder
4 N Attempt to boot from a network server
5 T Start up in FireWire target Disk mode
6 Shift Start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files
7 ⌘-V Start up in Verbose mode
8 ⌘-S Start up in Single-User mode

Finder Shortcuts

# Hotkey Description
9 ⌘-W Close Window
10 ⌥-⌘-W Close all Windows
11 ⌘-Right Arrow Expand Folder (list view)
12 ⌥-⌘-Left Arrow Collapse Folder (list view)
13 ⌥-⌘-Up Arrow Open Parent Folder and close current window

Menu ⌘s

# Hotkey Description
14 Shift-⌘-Q Apple Menu- Log Out
15 Shift-⌥-⌘-Q Apple Menu- Log Out Immediately
16 Shift-⌘-Delete Finder Menu- Empty Trash
17 ⌘-H Finder Menu- Hide Finder
18 ⌥-⌘-H Finder Menu- Hide Others
19 ⌘-N File Menu- New Finder Window
20 Shift-⌘-N File Menu- New Folder
21 ⌘-O File Menu- Open
22 ⌘-S File Menu- Save
23 Shift-⌘-S File Menu- Save As
24 ⌘-P File Menu- Print
25 ⌘-W File Menu- Close Window
26 ⌥-⌘-W File Menu- Close all windows
27 ⌘-I File Menu- Get Info
28 ⌥-⌘-I File Menu- Show Attributes Inspector
29 ⌘-D File Menu- Duplicate
30 ⌘-L File Menu- Make Alias
31 ⌘-R File Menu- Show Original
32 ⌘-T File Menu- Add to Sidebar
33 ⌘-Delete File Menu- Move to Trash
34 ⌘-E File Menu- Eject
35 ⌘-F File Menu- Find
36 ⌘-Z File Menu- Undo
37 ⌘-X File Menu- Cut
38 ⌘-C File Menu- Copy
39 ⌘-V File Menu- Paste
40 ⌘-A File Menu- Select All
41 ⌘-1 View Menu- View as Icons
42 ⌘-2 View Menu- View as List
43 ⌘-3 View Menu- View as Columns
44 ⌘-B View Menu- Hide Toolbar
45 ⌘-J View Menu- Show View ⌥s
46 ⌘-[ Go Menu- Back
47 ⌘-] Go Menu- Forward
48 Shit-⌘-C Go Menu- Computer
49 Shift-⌘-H Go Menu- Home
50 Shift-⌘-I Go Menu- iDisk
51 Shift-⌘-A Go Menu- Applications
52 Shift-⌘-F Go Menu- Favorites
53 Shift-⌘-G Go Menu- Goto Folder
54 ⌘-K Go Menu- Connect to Server
55 ⌘-M Window Menu- minimize window
56 ⌥-⌘-M Window Menu- Minimize All Windows
57 ⌘-? Help Menu- Open Mac Help
58 ⌘-Space Open Spotlight

Universal Access and VoiceOver

# Hotkey Description
59 ⌥-⌘-8 Turn on Zoom
60 ⌥-⌘-= Zoom in
61 ⌥-⌘–(hyphen) Zoom out
62 ⌃-⌥-⌘-* Switch to White on Black
63 ⌃-F1 Turn on Full Keyboard Access- When FKA is on, you can use the combinations below.
64 ⌃-F2 Full Keyboard Access- Highlight Menu
65 ⌃-F3 Full Keyboard Access- Highlight Dock
66 ⌃-F4 Full Keyboard Access- Highlight Window (active) or next window behind it
67 ⌃-F5 Full Keyboard Access- Highlight Toolbar
68 ⌃ F6 Full Keyboard Access- Highlight Utility Window (palette)
69 ⌘-F5 Turn VoiceOver on or off
70 ⌃-⌥-F8 Open VoiceOver Utility
71 ⌃-⌥-F7 Display VoiceOver Menu
72 ⌃-⌥-; Enable/disable VoiceOver ⌃-⌥ lock

Other ⌘s

# Hotkey Description
73 ⌥-⌘-D Show/Hide Dock
74 ⌘-Tab Switch Application
75 Tab Highlight next item
76 ⌘-Up Arrow Move up one level
77 ⌘-Down Arrow Move down one level
78 Page Up or ⌃-Up Arrow Move up one page
79 Page Down or ⌃-Down Arrow Move down one page
80 ⌥-Drag Copy to new location
81 ⌥-⌘-Drag Make alias in new location
82 Shift-⌘-C Show Colors palette in a Cocoa Application
83 ⌘-T Show Fonts palette in a Cocoa Application
84 ⌘-Shift-3 Take a picture of the screen
85 ⌘-Shift-4 Take a picture of the selection
86 ⌥-Comand-Esc Force Quit
87 ⌃-Eject Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
88 ⌥-⌘-Eject Sleep
89 ⌘-Tab Cycle through windows
90 ⌃-⌘-Eject Quit all applications and restart

Now lets get into some application specific hotkeys:

Textmate

# Hotkey Description
91 ⌘-N New
92 ⌃-⌘-N New Project
93 ⌘-O Open
94 ⌘-S Save
95 Shift-⌘-S Save As
96 ⌥-⌘-S Save All
97 ⌃-⌘-S Save Project
98 Shift-⌃-⌘-S Save Project As
99 ⌃-⌘-R Reveal in project
100 ⌘-P Print
101 ⌘-? Help
102 ⌘-Z Undo
103 Shift-⌘-Z Redo
104 ⌘-X Cut
105 ⌘-C Copy
106 ⌘-V Paste
107 ⌃-⌘-V Paste without re-indent
108 ⌃-⌥-⌘-V Paste From Clipboard History
109 ⌃-Shift-D Duplicate Line/Selection
110 ⌥-⌘-E Freehand Editing
111 ⌥-⌘-O Overwrite mode
112 ⌃-W Select Word
113 Shift-⌘-L Select Line
114 Shift-⌘-B Select Enclosing Brackets
115 ⌃-⌥-B Select Current Scope
116 ⌘-A Select All
117 ⌘-F Find
118 Shift-⌘-F Find in Project
119 ⌘-G Find Next
120 Shift-⌘-G Find Previous
121 ⌃-⌘-F Replace All
122 ⌃-Shift-⌘-F Replace all in selection
123 ⌘-E Use Selection For Find
124 Shift-⌘-E Use Selection For Replace
125 ⌘-J Jump To Selection
126 ⌘-: Spelling
127 ⌥-⌘-; Check Spelling As You Type
128 ⌥-⌘-T Special Characters
129 ⌘-+ and ⌘– Bigger/Smaller Font
130 ⌥-⌘-B Show/Hide Bookmarks

HTML/CSS In Textmate

# Hotkey Description
131 ⌃-H Documentation
132 ⌃-Shift-V Validate
133 ⌃-Shift-H HTMl Tidy

These are just a few of the many, many, Textmate hotkeys. There is literally a hotkey for everything.

I’ll probably add more Hotkeys as time progresses.