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Mail.app Mailbox Keyboard Shortcuts - Mac Tips Daily! #300
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A quick keyboard shortcut today for your Mail.app mailboxes.
1. Open Mail.App
To switch mailboxes, simply press the appropriate shortcut below.
COMMAND - 1 Inbox
COMMAND - 3 Drafts
COMMAND - 4 Sent
COMMAND - 5 Trash
COMMAND - 6 Junk
You may be wondering about COMMAND 2. This may or may not work on your configurations... if it does, COMMAND 2 will show you the OUTBOX.
Mac Tips Daily! # 210 - Logout and Sleep Shortcuts
If you are ever in a hurry to change the active state of your Mac, here are a few keyboard shortcuts to get the job done quickly.
CONTROL-EJECT - This will bring up the dialog asking you what you want to do - Restart sleep or shut down.
COMMAND-OPTION-EJECT - This will put the mac to sleep right away.
CONTROL-COMMAND-EJECT - This will restart your Mac instantly. READ MORE »
Mac Tips Daily! # 193 - Screenshot Shortcut
Have you ever needed to take a quick screenshot, and you don't need to save it to a file? With a little dexterity, you can do it, by modifying the screen capture keyboard shortcut. Use these shortcuts to take a screen capture and not save it to a file, but simply to your clipboard, so it can be quickly 'Pasted' into the app of your choice.
Here is how to do it:
To capture the whole screen, press 'Control-Command-Shift-3' (yes.. all at once). You may not think anything happened... keep reading for a bonus tip to help with that. READ MORE »
Mac Tips Daily! #134 - F10 & Cycling Windows
We all know you can use Expose' to show all of the open windows on your desktop. However, you can also do an expose' effect on the currently selected app, and it's respective windows. It's a great way to see what windows are open for just one application. A great feature though is to be able to cycle through the applications, and OS X Tiger makes it easy.
How to do it: READ MORE »
Mac Tips Daily! #117 - Command Shift Shortcuts
Save a few mouse clicks, and use these keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate to some of the important folders on your mac.
Here is how to do it:
These work when the Finder is active, so, click on the Finder icon on the dock, just to make sure it's the active app.
Home Folder: Command+Shift+H
Applications Folder: Command+Shift+A
Utilities Folder: Command+Shift+U READ MORE »
Mac Tips Daily! #100 - Changing Global Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can save tons of time. I find myself using them more than I do menus & the mouse - they are just so convenient & increase my productivity. Sometimes you may not like the Mac's default shortcuts, so for the most part there is an easy way to change them.
I am going to change the 'Dictionary' shortcut from 'Command Shift D ' to 'Command D ' - I think it's a bit easier. Listen to the podcast for all of the details, but here are the basics.
First, Open 'System Preferences' 'Apple menu->System Preferences'.
Next, choose 'Keyboard and Mouse'
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Mac Tips Daily! #83 - Using the Character Palette
Keyboards can only contain so many characters. If you find yourself looking for the command symbol, or maybe mathematical Pi, or even some Korean. You can find all of these, and more in the 'Character Palette'.
Here is how to do it:
First, open 'System Preferences' - 'Apple Menu -> System Preferences'
Then, choose 'International'
Then choose the 'Input Menu' tab, and then add a 'checkmark' to the 'Character Palette' option, and then you can close the windows.
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