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- OutrightLie, on 10/11/2007, -7/+53@supermanred (#7117266)
What was that keyboard shortcut to show the widgets again? Damn... if only I had a way to show all the keyboard shortcuts.... - buddhabelieves, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28Is it just me or is the link not directly to the widget? and he doesn't mention the name....If someone knows what widget he's talking about, would you post it?
Thanks - ryanmerket, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26Looks like it was removed from macupdate. Get it here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/xcuts.html - griz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25I wish people would knock it off with the "EVER". Can't people get more creative with titles than this?
- mindaika, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Um, clicking on the headline just takes you to the macupdate page.
- d2htornado, on 10/11/2007, -8/+28@ sneeka2:
"This is really the most _handiest_ widget ever." Are you kidding me? _You_ are correcting someone else's grammar? This is really the _handiest_ widget ever. You clearly don't know about comparatives either. - dantidote, on 10/11/2007, -5/+24Very cool, my first mac is literally on the FedEx truck right now, I should get it before noon. Splendid widget to get me comfortable with osx.
- ThinkBox, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22how about...
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts (tab)
You can view all shortcuts, and edit them so that they are whatever you want. You can even make application specific shortcuts!
for fun, walk up to a friends mac and press this.
Apple Option Control 8 (at the same time)
and then press
Apple Option . (period) (hit this combination several times)
then you can Apple Option + (zoom it in a little bit, maybe til hiss Macintosh HD fills the screen, oh and if zoom doesn't work, hit Apple Option 8 to enable it)
to undo all this just Apple Option - (minus), Apple Option Control 8, and Apple Option Control , (comma)
P.S. you don't need admin power to do this in most cases, so you can wreck a Mac lab for fun ;) (but of course that would be blasphemy) - ivanpk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13it doesn't have EVERY shortcut ever. for example, it doesn't have the one which is CMD-OPTION-CTRL-8 which Inverses the colors of your screen :)
however, very good widget though.. - MacGyver2210, on 10/11/2007, -16/+25Buried for using an all-caps 'EVER'.
Damn you hyperbolic mactards. - swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9@KidVicious
I think the symbols are merely to make more room in the menus.
Up-Arrow is Shift key, ^ is Control key, Angled-Line-With-A-Dash is Option/Alt key, Flower-Icon is Command/Apple key
Not sure why these symbols are any better than the actual key name itself, but I'll take it ;-) - sneeka2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9@d2htornado
/sarcasm, anyone? =_=;
@buddha...
Link borked by now somehow. xCuts is the name. - ocellnuri, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I'm a big fan of Keycue: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14861
It's an overlay that lists all of the shortcuts for the application currently in focus, activated by holding down the command key for a couple seconds. I always suggest it when someone's getting their first Mac. - idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7But we're awfully good at ignorant, inaccurate, overreaching generalizations!!
- kwick, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5The link redirects to home page. Here is the program that the submitter should have referenced in the story- xCuts 1.2
Furthermore- here is a link to a download page
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Information/xCuts.shtml - TheMadCow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I'm voting this down for 2 reasons. One, you used EVER - and should be taken out and beaten severely and then left for the gypsies. And 2, this widget, while it offers a goodly amount of information - sucks hard. It's written poorly and doesn't behave as expected (try dragging the scroll to the bottom of the list) and it's linked to an external sql database. While that might be cute for an updating list, it requires that the widget be connected to the internet or it doesn't even work.
- chilipalmero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4buried for not properly linking to the widget and not describing the name of it in the description.
- KidVicious, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't understand what half the key combinations mean when they're described with little symbols. It's incredibly frustrating to me when I find the shortcut that I need, but I don't know what key one of the symbols corresponds to and then have to go searching on the internet for a text version. This widget looks to be good for my needs, as it spells out the combos in English, instead of hieroglyphs.
- StupidLiberal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think you forgot to put AMAZING in the headline
- Brodan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Apple website has a page that lists all of the shortcuts with descriptions of what they do. The "start-up options" shortcuts are not going to be very useful on a widget, so you should make a printout of this page and keep it handy.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 - idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@ thcobbs:i dunno...you got a windows machine you can try it out on? I'm really hoping i wasn't lying...and i'm quite confident that i wasn't...
Oh yeah, and to whoever dugg me down for trying to help someone by answering their question: what, do you think you're gonna discourage me from helping people out when i can? You're funny. Grow up, or go make a new lolcat, or do something else to waste your worthless time. Just a suggestion. - willemvb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Another way to zoom: Control + scroll wheel (or two finger scroll pad)
Works well as poor man's Quick-time Full Screen Player - webpoet73, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It can also be downloaded from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/xcuts.html - demonotaku, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You could always look them up and make one yourself. It's not like it's hard.
- vawksel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Agreed about the "EVER" part, I bury every story that has that in the title.
- idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -7/+9@strossos: I think there is a way to invert the colors in Windows, but I've liberated the old Windows box so I can't give specific instructions. Try this: "Control Panel>Accessibility Options>Monitor/Screen/Video/*or something like that*>and select "High Contrast" mode (or something similart).
I could be totally wrong, or making this up, or deliberately lying, although I'm rather certain it's not the latter. :) - Blizaine, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6My 17 month old son did this once by smacking the keyboard when I wasn't in the room. I had to search through all the menu's to figure out how to change it back. This would have been good to know :)
- PrometheusZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yeah, the link just re-directs to the main page. If you have the name of the widget, that'd be helpful. I can't for the life of me remember the 6 different screenshot combinations.
- catski227, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Is the widget not working for anyone else?
All I see is a blue/green box that says xCuts... - ibeetle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2xCuts and KeyCue are not the same thing. xCuts is a laundry list of the keyboard shortcuts for the Mac OS. You have to type a search, or scroll through dozens to find the shortcut you want.
KeyCue is not really a widget. It is a application. It shows the shortcuts for the front application (the app the user is currently in). For example, if a user is in Safari pulling up KeyCue will show only the shortcuts for Safari. If the user is in iMove they will only get the shortcuts for that application.
xCuts is a free widget that show keyboard shortcuts for the Mac OS. KeyCue is a $20.00 application that shows the shortcuts for any program that is in use. - MacGyver2210, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Man, don't we suck at percentages.
- EricG, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Thanks !!.. this widget is going to save me alot of grief with my mom and her iMac..
- nickbarber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What does the "Apple Option . " combination do?
- Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Cmd+3/Cmd+4 if you want it (fullscreen/selection respectively) saved to the clipboard, Cmd+Shift+3/Cmd+Shift+4 if you want it saved to a file on your desktop. If you're in the selection mode (for C4/CS4), hit spacebar and it'll capture the contents of whatever window you click on next.
- plutpwnium, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Buried for innacuracy. It doesnt contain every short-cut.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1KidVicious - if you go to the system preferences as described by thinkbox then hover your cursor over the shortcut you will get a small popup that spells out the correct keys.
- Interestingness, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This is a great collection, thanks mac update!
http://ThunkDifferent.com - ifknot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1capitalised hyperbole poorly linked post to something ultimately useless
resent the implication that a new mac user needs to know these keyboard shortcuts
only need cut,copy,paste and tab
implying that user needs to know the rest of the keyboard cruft in order to use OS X does Mac reputation for ease of use a disservice
lame
buried - ThinkBox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ nickbarber
Press Apple Option . a lot in a row, and you will see - benjaminrayburn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1CMD-OPTION-CTRL-8. Nice, I thought you were "/sarcasm" but then I tried it…
- Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1strossos - try Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow :)
- JimSartor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Dugg for being "useful", buried for being Mac-related. Yeah, I'll be that guy . . . besides, I like the PC guy . . . he's friendly in a nerdy-don't-need-short-cut-cheat-sheets kind of way.
- kuypersvn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0easy solution, use the app called "grab". it comes on the macbooks, dunno bout iBooks, but its a screen shot getter.
- mlavergn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Even better, link from the Apple Dashboard page:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/xcuts.html - fefferid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2EVER is the new black.
No wait...
EVER is the new Amazing! - vanarothiel, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3The Most + EVER + EVERY = buried
- sadsadrobot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Anyone know where I could get a desktop background of Windows Keyboard Shortcuts? Been searching but haven't found anything...
- flyingmeteor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Buried as a visually unattractive widget.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0The most handy OSX widget ever? The "Windows widget". Were it changes OS from OSX to XP/Vista in seconds! Pretty cool huh!
- swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4I could be wrong, but I think WWDC is today, in approximately 3 hours. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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