Must-know Spotlight Hotkey

Mac = spotlight
Windows = search function in start menu

Anyway, spotlight is really useful! Especially if you don’t have Quicksilver installed. If you want to search for a file, spotlight is actually better than Quicksilver because Quicksilver (by default) doesn’t index everything. Spotlight does and can find pretty much anything.

However, if you are searching in spotlight, you absolutely need to know how to view an item in Finder. That wasn’t very clear, was it. OK, so you are searching for Firefox because you want to put that on your dock. You search for it in Spotlight and find it. Now what? You want to view it in a Finder window so that you can drag it onto the dock but you can’t right-click or anything in the Spotlight search. You can go to “Show All”…Annoying!

Mac / Browser Tip

I don’t use a PC so I don’t know if this applies to PC’s (but then again, I don’t think a PC user would be on this blog), but there is a very quick shortcut for “Page Down”.

Tap the space bar to move one page down, equivalent to hitting the “Page Down” button. And like many other shortcuts, Shift + Spacebar is the opposite of pressing the space bar, and is the equivalent of the “Page Up” button.

Move/Copy/Alias

         One of the very first things I wanted to know how to do in Leopard was how to move files, copy files, and make aliases. By the way, for those who do not know, “aliases” are equivalent to “shortcuts” in Windows. In Windows, you can easily decide what you want to do by right-click dragging and dropping files, but in Mac you can’t right-click drag…