Hidden Jems for Mac newbies!

I just found the coolest thing I never knew about on my new iMac. I was messing around with the remote and found out you can watch movie trailers right there! It was so neat, I wondered if there was any other cool little things like this that may not be all that well known to newbies on a mac?

Post them here! :dummy:

iTunes 7 has some cool views if you have all your album art.

dashboard has unlimited cool things you can add to it
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

expose' hot corners :black:

coolest shortcut ever

command + alt + ctrl + 8

brendan67 said:

command + alt + ctrl + 8

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I tried to take a screenshot of the wonderful colours with this "trick" but it came out regular....

negative outcome

never tried that

what does it do, i am on a windows computer at work.. i really want to know!

I want to know where I'm hiding

turns color to a negative view

turns color to a negative view

changes the entire view of the screen

you would need to see it on a mac

difficult to describe

AWESOME!!! I just did it... it looks badass! Neat feature. Why would you need it though?

Essentially, you're just staring at a 15" (whatever) inch lightbulb. Switching all whites to blacks makes reading/surfing much easier on your eyes.

Hold down Shift and Option, while clicking the Minimize button of an open window.

surfwax95 said:

Essentially, you're just staring at a 15" (whatever) inch lightbulb. Switching all whites to blacks makes reading/surfing much easier on your eyes.

Hold down Shift and Option, while clicking the Minimize button of an open window.

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You can actually hold down Shift alone, and double click the window to minimize it, or hit the minimize button.

punkr0x0r said:

You can actually hold down Shift alone, and double click the window to minimize it, or hit the minimize button.

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Works for F9-11 too try it with a movie playing...

punkr0x0r said:

You can actually hold down Shift alone, and double click the window to minimize it, or hit the minimize button.

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Shift alone does it slowly, Shift+Option does it *very* slowly.

I accidently found out that my Mac talks to me. I highlighted text in iCal, right clicked, went down to Speech and it spoke that line. Cool.

Nice! :black: I am currently monochromatic! I feel like it's 1989!

PapaNoHair said:

I accidently found out that my Mac talks to me. I highlighted text in iCal, right clicked, went down to Speech and it spoke that line. Cool.

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The speech recognition is awesome as well...
It really "Wows" my friends that visit when I say "Get my Mail"... and my inbox opens... or I say "Close this Window".. it closes. Or my favorite... I say "Mail to Bill Smith" and mail pops up a pre-addressed email addressed to none other than Bill Smith! Just the tip of the iceberg.

Wow, I just tried the negative colors, and it's REALLY cool. Any other nifty little tricks that I can do with my Mac?

wow,,, i love the negative colour, that is sic, i wish i could keep the normal desktop that colour.

brendan67 said:

command + alt + ctrl + 8

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I have an Intel iMac G5 and when I do this nothing happens.... =(

Edit, I got it to work, I wonder why you can't use the keypad?

Anyway, this is really cool!

this is such a cool thread, all of this stuff is sick. How do you do speech recognition?

OS X has a spell check. highlight the word then right click.