Comments on: Top 10 Leopard Features You Aren’t Using

By: Jase

Jase — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:23:01 +0000

I found a feature to make any shortcut for safari tab switching:

Don’t you love the simplicity of switching tabs in Firefox? (CTRL Tab) – where as Safari is a total bitch and a half to switch tabs (Apple shift arrows) – that’s almost you’re whole left hand and 1 right hand finger – To much if you are anything like me you would have 20 tabs open and you would want to switch to them quickly.

well I did a little digging on the internet and found a solution for safari:

If you go to Preferences> Keyboard & Mouse, you can set the shortcut to be whatever you want in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu.

Click the +, set the application to Safari, enter “Select Next Tab” as the menu title, and then enter your preferred keystrokes and now you can use Cmd-Shift-2 to go to the next tab! – I use (Apple & ~) – I find it much more convenient switching tabs than any other keystroke. You can also Repeat for “Select Previous Tab”

With Glims and this keyboard switching trick – Safari is now Complete.

To read the whole article I wrote it can be found here: http://www.jeayese.com/?p=671

By: matt

matt — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:54:02 +0000

a good feature i discovered on macbooks was activating ‘right click’ with two finger clicking. its not called right click, but alternative click or something. but its a lot easier than having to press command and clicking every time

By: Silla

Silla — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:11:43 +0000

Adium also has invisibility.

By: jarratt

jarratt — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:23:05 +0000

This is just too good not to share in case anyone is scrounging through old macapper comments. Press cmd+shift+/ to open the help menu. then type the name of any menu item in the current application. press the down arrow to select it and hit enter.

Quicksilver’s current application>show menu items used to be good for this, but has been glitchy since Leopard. Now Leopard can do it. Incredibly useful.

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By: jc

jc — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:22:29 +0000

Hey, how do you add a “new tab” button in Safari 3 ???

By: fridge

fridge — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:29:00 +0000

Only thing that stinks with doing calculations in Spotlight is that you cant copy the result to paste in another app without launching Calculator. I will continue to use Calq for my quick calculations.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:55:37 +0000

If you want to change what windows are in what spaces, click and hold any part of the window that allows you to move it and then move to a window using the keyboard shortcut. This works with my macbook that runs dual desktop as well. 8 spaces actually show up, but I can still only toggle through 4.

I didn’t even notice the scrolling through nonactive window thing even though I was already doing it.

By: Fraser Drew

Fraser Drew — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:55:49 +0000

Quick Look is awesome. Period. It’s that killer feature no-one predicted would be any good. It’s Just Apple. It just works. (Can you tell I like it)

By: something2sea

something2sea — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:03:52 +0000

featue i can’t live without: without a doubt QuickLook, that’s the one i use the most and the first thing i’ll moss if i had to go back to tiger (other than the UI polishings like metal throughout and that blab).

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:12:15 +0000

Actually I was wrong sorry, I forgot I had SafariStand installed which adds that button.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:54:10 +0000

Austen there’s already a tab button in Safari, you just have to add it to the toolbar.

By: Austen Saltz

Austen Saltz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:15:25 +0000

Feature I can’t wait for: TAB BUTTON IN SAFARI. I don’t care if you can do command-t, I want a freakin’ tab button!

However, good list. I have to agree about the mosaic screensaver, very cool.