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A couple more shortcuts
Dialogue boxes
When closing an un-saved document, you’ll usually get the “Do you want to save changes to this document before closing?” dialogue box appear. It’s always bugged me that I have to using my mouse (or trackpad) to select one of the options in here: Save, Cancel or Don’t Save.
Here to keystrokes to activate […]
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Keystrokes and shortcuts
Whilst I’m on the subject of keystrokes (in my head anyway), I thought I’d share a few more that I’ve found. Mac’s seem to be very keen on the backspace (Backspace) key. I was disappointed to discover my MacBook has no ‘delete’ key. Until I found a keystroke that does exactly this. I’m quite relieved.
fn […]
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Where’s the damn hash key?
I’d been using my MacBook for a few days. Still pretty new to the whole thing, but confident that everything would be as easy as I’d imagined. I wanted to edit some HTML files and opened TextMate. I’m happily editing away the night, when I come to a colour change and need to enter the […]
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I love MacBook hardware
I’d like to talk hardware for a moment. I’ll admit; one of the things that drew me to the MacBook was the beauty of it. I was very fond of the iBooks, and when I gathered a MacBook was going to be released I hoped it would be just as gorgeous. I was not disappointed.
I […]
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Learning the Mac - Step 1: Buy a MacBook
What’s this then? Well, this is about someone who’s new to Mac, and is going to share all his experiences with you.
Who the crap am I? For reasons unknown to myself, I will remain partially anonymous, using the identity of MatBook. I am a Senior Web Developer for a small design consultancy. By day (and […]
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