why we should buy a new mac just to have that ability though is stupid lol On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:36 AM, M. Taylor wrote:
> Hello, > > On my MacBookPro, I've been using various areas of the TrackPad to bring up > various applications; for example, 2-finger double-tapping the bottom of the > TrackPad to launch the Dock or tapping the upper part of the TrackPad to > bring up the Apple Menu. > > Saves a lot of time. > > Mark > > Get to know yourself as you get to know me on The Secret Life of Mark Marcus > Live Talk Show > http://candleshore.com/secrets > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:43 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Getting Out of the Box on the Mac > > > > On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> and anothe rkeystroke you can use is control f2. thats the one I've been > using. > > That is the key stroke to take you to the Apple menu. Control-F3 takes you > to the Dock. > Control-F8 takes you to the Status menus. > Command-Shift-D takes you to the Desktop. > > All these shortcuts are documented against their corresponding menu items. > > VoiceOver does not "Teach" us to do anything in particular. It simply gives > us options we can use. The specific VO commands are useful when we work with > the VO keys locked, which was a common thing to do before Snow Leopard and > Quick Nav. > > The standard Mac shortcuts are second nature to me because I've been using a > Mac for 14 years, and many shortcuts go back a long way. Others are very > recent, such as Command-Shift-O to go to your Documents folder. > > I always teach people the standard Mac shortcuts because you never know when > you'll need them. > > It's worth taking the time to look closely at menus to see just how many > useful shortcuts there are. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
