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Tabs etc.

Since I don’t have a Twitter account:

  • Yesterday I discovered the beauty of Command-Tab on the Mac. I’ve known for years that I can use this to select a currently running application, but never used it. But what’s very useful is that a single Command-Tab will take you back to the previous application you used, thus you can toggle between two applications, like Firefox and Coda.
  • Gonna have to get me a new MacBook battery, ‘cos I’m fed up with recharging this one whilst I’m on a wireless connection.
  • Yes, I’ve now got wireless internet where I’m staying! And what a story that was.. long spiel on customer service coming shortly.
  • Is it sad, or convenient, that I can access my Mac Mini via a VPN so that I can buy some music whilst I’m 3,500 miles away from home? Currently upgrading to iTunes 7.2 to see what Apple can flog me at 256Kbps.
Permalink | Canada 2007

One Response to "Tabs etc."

  1. 11 July 2007 at 04:46 PM

    Mark H wrote:

    I often use command-tab for quickly switching between two applications as you’ve discovered. But did you know that you can do command-tab during a drag-and-drop?

    You can’t drag onto the command-tab bar (use the dock for that). But you can start dragging, command-tab to an application which brings the application forward, and then drop onto that application’s window. Sometimes this is quicker than using Expose during a drag-and-drop (i.e. depending on your thought process at the time).

    You can even start dragging, command-tab to your favourite text editor, send command-N to the text editor causing it to open a shiny new window for you, all during the drag operation, and THEN drop into said shiny new window.

    I realise this is “power user stuff”, but as a power user, it’s this kind of easy workflow that saves me oodles of time every day compared to using other operating systems.

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