Archive for the ‘OSX’ Category

Aug 28

10 Mac HTML Entities

Markup, OSX No responses.

Here are some HTML Entities that might help if you are writing mac oriented tutorials or posts.

  1. Command- ⌘ Entity Code: ⌘
  2. Right Arrow- →Entity Code: →
  3. Left Arrow- ←Entity Code: ←
  4. Up Arrow- ↑Entity Code: ↑
  5. Down Arrow- ↓Entity Code: ↓
  6. Control- ⌃Entity Code: ⌃
  7. Shift- ⇧ Entity Code: ⇧
  8. Option- ⌥Entity Code: ⌥
  9. Backspace- ⌫Entity Code: ⌫
  10. Escape- ⎋Entity Code: ⎋
Jul 20

90+ Mac OSX HotKeys(updated)

OSX, Useful Tips, Productivity, Apple 2 responses.

If you like this post, you should check out the rest of the site.

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.

Jun 29

Listen To Your PDF’s

OSX, Windows, Useful Tips, Productivity, Apple No responses.

If you’re running Windows or OSX. You can have your PDF documents read to you instead of reading them when using Adobe Acrobat Reader to open them.  Continue reading Listen To Your PDF’s