Here are just a few semi-secret keyboard short cuts. Have any we don’t? Please share them!

1. Option + click the sound menu bar icon to bring up inputs and outputs.

2. Full screen Quick Look: Option + Spacebar

3. Zoom Mouse: Control + (Mouse Scroll forward)

4. View invisible files in dialog boxes (SL only): Command + Shift + . (period key)

5. Show Dock item in Finder: ⌘ + Click Dock item.

6. Re-arange Menu Bar items: ⌘ + Click & Drag to desired position.

7. Hide Dock: Option + ⌘ D

8. Sleep Computer: ⌘ + Option + Control + ⏏

9. Shut Down Computer no questions asked: ⌘ + Option + ⏏

10. Yours Here: Put yours in the comments below

Keys For Success: 10 Easy Powerful Keyboard Shortcuts is a post from: The Custom Mac

We all love our Macs but there are always a couple small “features” that we could all trive without. Here are a few annoying ones and how to stop them. Be sure to share yours as well.

1. Stop obnoxious Bouncing Dock icons (Original Post)

fire up Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type in the following and hit enter:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE

And then type in the following to restart your dock:

killall Dock

From now on you will not be plauged by the bouncing icons!

And for whatever reason you want to turn it back on you can enter the following into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE

and then

killall Dock

2. Disable flash or countdown in Photo Booth

Disabling flash in PhotoBooth is really easy all you have to do is hold the Shift key while you click to take a picture and the screen will not flash white.

Disabling the picture count down in PhotoBooth is just a matter of holding down the Option key while you click to take a picture, your photo will take immediately.

If You combine the keystrokes by holding down Option-Shift, you’ll immediately take a picture without the flash.

3. Toggle hiding the Dock using the keyboard.

A keyboard shortcut I use multiple times a day is Command + Option + D.
This will toggle hiding the dock. Great for anyone working with large windows and applications.

Disabling Annoying Features in OS X is a post from: The Custom Mac

One mouse to rule them all…

This little piece of software has saved me time and desktop space. Have you ever wanted to use one mouse with 2 different computers? Teleport is a preference pane that lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag and drop files between your Macs. You can also customize you screen layout.

This makes it easy and helpful if you have computers with different screen sizes like a iMac and a Macbook. There are a whole slew of additional options so check it out for yourself, its free.

Using One Mouse and Keyboard for Multiple Macs is a post from: The Custom Mac