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“Aim for Macs”

This is a terrific list of Mac Apps.  If you don’t know them all, you should learn. These are the applications that come installed with the Mac operating system. Not all of them are free, but all are worth having for any Mac user.

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“Aim for the Apple”

If you just got a Mac, this should be quite helpful.  The chart below shows the Apple keyboard key & corresponding symbol.

Modifier Keys

Character Keys

Function keys

cmd+A - Select All items or text in active window
cmd+C - Copy the current selection to the clipboard
cmd+O - Open a file
cmd+P - Print the active window
cmd+Q - Quit the active application
cmd+S - Save the current file or document
cmd+V - Paste clipboard contents at current cursor position
cmd+W - Close active window
cmd+X - Cut the current selection, delete it from current window and put it on the clipboard
cmd+Z - Undo the last action

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“Aim for the Useful” 

To force-Quit a single application: right click on the dock icon and select “quit” – or if it’s wedged, press the option key to toggle that to “force quit”

Multiple Windows of same application? command ` to toggle between them, or F10 to see them all.

Forward Delete: function + delete key

FTP application: I use Cyberduck (it’s free), works great and transmits data quickly (on my PCs I use WSFTP).

Text editor (html/programming): TextMate. BBEdit’s pretty good, too.

Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”

On a Mac:

Want to take a quick picture of your desktop:
COMMAND KEY + SHIFT + 3

Want to take a picture of a specific section of your desktop:
COMMAND KEY + SHIFT + 4
(A cross hair will appear as your mouse pointer, then highlight your selection.)

These are great for making screenshots for websites and the .png files are saved right to your desktop.

For Windows:

Press your PrintScreen/PrtSrn button (normally located at the top right of your keyboard).

It copies an image of your screen onto the “clipboard” ready to paste into any graphics program or even into a Microsoft Office document (you will want to crop the image).

Aimee
“Aim for the Useful”