As many of you know, the beeping sound while raising or lowering the volume can be turned off/on. (System Preferences > Sound > Play feedback when volume is changed)
As I posted earlier, holding down ALT and SHIFT will change the volume in very small intervals.
What I just discovered is that by only holding the SHIFT, you can make the volume beeping sound turn on or go away.
Command + Expose = Show Desktop
For me command + F3 does the same thing that a “Show Desktop” shortcut would do.
Now here is a straight-up useful Mac tip I use everyday: increasing the volume by smaller increments. Normally if you press the Volume Up or Volume Down buttons, the volume will increase by one whole bar. This had annoyed me forever until I learned how to. Leopard only.
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Alt/Option + SHIFT + Volume Up/Volume Down
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Ed
EDIT: This post have been getting very many views lately so ‘fess up in the comments if you want a part 2 with more advanced and new ways to use Mac OS X commands and wildcard characters.
This tip/post is going to be about several common Mac OS X commands and wildcard characters I have discovered, at work, that is useful to understand and know how to use. First off, wildcard characters are special characters such as * and ? that help you to find groups of filenames that have something in common.
For example, say I have a couple of files that I want to find in my home directory. My home directory is cluttered with junk files that I never take the time to organize. But somewhere within that junk pile of files there lay 8 files I would like. Their filenames are ssw_idl.a285, ssw_idl.r391, ssw_idl.z988, ssw_idl.c293, and the other 4 files are named similarly (“ssw_idl.” followed by a letter, then 3 numbers). Read the rest of this entry »
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… Read the rest of this entry »
