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While navigating a UI using solely the keyboard may seem like basic stuff to some of you, the truth is that a good many computer users on all platforms are not even aware that this functionality exists. For those users trying to learn the in's and out's of moving around their Mac with the keyboard, Hawk Wings has a neat little tutorial on navigating Mail.app with the keyboard.To find out what version of Mac OS you are running, go to the Apple logo in the top left corner, click it and choose About This Mac. From that window you will see the version number, processor, memory and chosen startup disk. Clicking Software Update will check for updates, and More Info... will open up an extensive list of everything on your machine.
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John from Buffalo said 9:31AM on 10-11-2006
Checking your mail with keyboard combinations and learning how to navigate SpotLight in combination with general power user skills will make using a Mac all that much more fun. Up until know with the introduction of the Intel line, OS X has been painful to use with respect to how fast _I_ move with the slowness of Spotlight. However ..... Intel line chips have speeded up general operational uses of the Mac to get shit done. Rock on power users.
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George K. said 12:19AM on 10-12-2006
One keyboard combo I would LOVE to have is one that takes you to the first message in a mailbox. When I change sorting, or after I do a search, I often want to get back to the first message in my Inbox, which being sorted by date means the most recent message.
The only way to do it by keyboard is one message at a time, with the arrow key.
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Mag said 7:08AM on 10-12-2006
This tutorial has indeed stuff many users weren't aware of.
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