Keyboard Shortcut

You probably know that you can use a keyboard combination on your Mac to insert accented letters – such as È, É, Ê or Ë. But were you aware that the iPhone onscreen keyboard offers a quick way to input accented letters and alternate characters, too? Here’s how.

The iPhone onscreen keyboard conveniently offers a .com button within Mobile Safari. Wouldn’t it be nice to have this feature available in iPhone Mail, too? And why stop at .com – having other popular top-level domain choices would also be helpful. Here’s how to reveal these hidden choices on your iPhone keyboard.

There are four buttons on the Finder toolbar for switching between Icon View, List View, Column View and Cover Flow View. Did you know there are keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching Finder views? Here’s how.

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Print out a helpful copy of these keyboard commands by using the Print This feature located at the bottom of the page.

Startup

Keystroke
Description

Press X during startup
Force Mac OS X startup

Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete
during startup
Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such [...]

The Dock magnification feature in Mac OS X Leopard is cool eye candy, even though I have it disabled. About the only time I miss Dock magnification is when I have a lot of open applications and the Dock icons are small. Did you know you could use Dock magnification at any time with a [...]