2 posts tagged “os x”
I haven't seen many people using the built-in Keyboard Shortcuts feature in OS X, maybe because there are so many full-featured third-party apps out there that do it better. Still, it's good for the quick and simple commands that Apple doesn't already have keymapped.
For example, I noticed in iTunes 7 that the main iTunes window no longer has a default keymapping, nor does the equalizer.
- Open System Preferences.
- Click on Keyboard & Mouse.
- Select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
- Scroll to the bottom and select "Application Keyboard Shortcuts".
- Click the plus button to add a new shortcut.
- Select your app and type the menu command you want to run.
- Close and re-open your app, if it was still running.
Here's some valuables from my Dashboard:
- Dolor Sit Amet - Effortless lorem ipsum generator.
- Galleria - Search through the oodles of color palettes from ColorSchemer.com
- ColourMod - Color picker that spits out HEX.
- CSSTweak - Optimize your stylesheets.
- CSS Cheat Sheet - Is what it is. Quick 'n handy.
- WidgetTerm - Great for all sorts of handy uses. I use mine for SVN commands.
- DashTunes - A mini iTunes which allows for rating.
- Sound Volume - Between this and DashTunes, I can close the iTunes window and still have quite a bit of control over music stuff.
- Transmit - Good for those repeated image uploads. Requires Transmit.
- Ma.gnolia Ma.rker - Having recently discovered Ma.gnolia, I use the bookmarklet to mark sites in a rush, but I use this cute widget when I have time to edit details & tags in the moment.
