Coolest Thing A Mac Can Do

(or funniest thing you can do to your friend’s Mac!)

Coolest Useless Thing a Mac Can Do!

Do this for fun…. Hold down the following keys, all at the same time. Best to start with the first and then add each. COOL HUH? To reverse, just do the same thing. Better yet, do it to a friends Mac and make them beg for you to put it back to normal! (don’t worry, its harmless!)

ctrl-option-apple-8

This Keyboard Really Sparkles!

Take a look at this video of this new keyboard that has come out for use with your Mac. It is fully map-able and able to display images inside each key. So that your tool pallet can actually show up on your key board. A little pricey but cool if nothing else. 

New Features in Photo Booth!

If you have Leopard, you will see that Photo Booth has some new features including multiple pictures capture, movie recording, build in green screen, no countdown capture, and no flash! To turn off the flash simply press the shift key while clicking on the Shutter button. To turn off the countdown,  hold down the option button and click on the Shutter button. To have no flash or countdown, hold down shift and option and then click on the Shutter button.

Scroll Through Open Programs

Here is-what I consider-a need-to-know time saver. In windows you were able to scroll though open programs, you can too! Here is the code: Hold down (apple) and click (tab) once, then you can click (tab) multiple times to scroll through open programs as long as you hold down (apple). You can also close and hide the programs: hold down (apple) and click tab once or as many time as you need to get to an application that you want to close or hide, then when that application is highlighted, click “Q” to quit it, or “H” to hide it. [You can let-go of (apple) now]

More:
Hold down (apple) and hit (tab) once, once you have done that, continue to hold down (apple) and you can use your mouse to scroll over applications.

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!

On all Macs there is this great little feature that I like to call “Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!” What is is is a feature that allows you to zoom in to extreme measures. This is great for working with Photoshop and other photo editors, and also if you are trying to learn how icons and what not are made.

For instance this is what the Apple logo looks like zoomed in.

To turn this feature on/off press: apple+option+8

To zoom in even more (when feature is on): apple+option+[pluss]

To zoom out (feature must be on): apple+option+[minus]

Got questions or ideas that you want me to post?-leave a comment.

Look at My Screen!

Screen capture is a popular feature that most Mac users don’t know how to do when they switch over from Windows, but it is possible. All you have to do is simple click on (control+option+apple+3) and you have the whole screeen!

Cooler than that, is the picture selection tool. Simple press (control+option+apple+4)

Wait, there’s even more!! If you need to capture just an icon, window or the dock etc. all you have do is select (control+option+apple+4+[space bar])-a little camera should appear.

If you have any other things that you want me to post just add a comment!