Keyboard shortcuts Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mac 101: Quick navigation of browser tabs

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 21st, 2011)

If you ever use the tabs in your web browser, you may have a hard time navigating between them as you take your hand off the keyboard, put it on your mouse, click on the tab you're looking for, look at that page for a moment and then click back on the first tab again. As a person who has loads of ...

Quickly enable or disable JavaScript in Safari

by TJ Luoma (Jan 4th, 2011)

By using "Disable JavaScript" on Safari's Develop menu, you can eliminate annoyances from some websites, without the frustration of disabling JavaScript altogether. I'll even show you how to make a custom keyboard shortcut for it, so your fingers never even have to leave the keyboard. The initial ...

A handy Safari keyboard shortcut for Google searches

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 13th, 2010)

Here I go again, professing my love for keyboard shortcuts. I have shortcuts and hotkeys for just about everything I do on a daily basis. I'm running out of intuitive combinations, actually, but my muscle memory seems to have room for a few more. There's one shortcut, though, that I think every ...

Custom Safari keyboard shortcuts save my sanity

by TJ Luoma (May 29th, 2010)

I'm a latecomer to the Safari party. I have used Opera and OmniWeb, but eventually, the siren song of Safari was too much to ignore. For the most part, I like it quite a bit, but there is one thing that has bothered me for a long time. Safari has some ridiculous keyboard shortcuts. So, I made some ...

Divvy up your windows

by Brett Terpstra (May 17th, 2010)

For those who deal with a lot of windows, especially on multiple screens, any utility that makes it easier to organize and reposition those windows quickly is a boon. I've used SizeUp for a while now, and have become very accustomed to being able to quickly snap my windows into halves or quarters of ...

Create keyboard shortcuts to jump to Safari 4 tabs directly

by TJ Luoma (May 13th, 2010)

My friend Steve (no, not that Steve) just solved a problem I've had for awhile now: how to jump to a specific tab in Safari using the keyboard. Turns out that it's possible, and it's free, and it works pretty well. What else could you ask for? The solution comes from Paul Kretek's website where ...

TextExpander 3 makes short work of keyboard shortcuts

by TJ Luoma (Mar 10th, 2010)

TextExpander, one of my very most favorite (yes, I like it that much) utilities has been updated to version 3. This is a major update and renovation of the program, which has changed from a preference pane to an application. I honestly don't think that I could use a Mac without TextExpander ...

Mac 101: Navigating OS X with your keyboard

by Michael Jones (Feb 26th, 2010)

Let's face it: unless you're just casually surfing the Internet or playing a game, chances are pretty good that your hands are on the keyboard most of the time when you're at the computer. Sure, the mouse is only a few inches away, but wouldn't it just be easier if you didn't have to keep going back ...

Ask TUAW: iPad VGA out, changing keyboard shortcuts, Time Capsule worries, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 11th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about changing keyboard shortcuts in Keynote, the iPad's dock to VGA adapter, Time Capsule failures, Mac-compatible scanners, iPhone voice control, and more. As always, your suggestions and ...

TUAW Tip: Paste without formatting by default

by Robert Palmer (Jul 7th, 2009)

Here's something I know affects plenty of users out there. Have you ever pasted text in a document or email message, only to have it formatted differently than all the text around it? Irritating, right? There's an answer, thanks to the Keyboard & Mouse pane in System Preferences. If you ...

Mac 101: Put your display to sleep fast

by Robert Palmer (Jan 16th, 2009)

Quick! The boss is coming! Hide your screen! What, you don't have Spaces set up so you can switch to that handy Excel worksheet you've got open? That's okay -- just put your display to sleep. Of course, there are other reasons to want to quickly turn off your display, but they all have one simple ...

Mac 101: use a tab to navigate dialogs

by Cory Bohon (May 6th, 2008)

Recently we here at TUAW were asked about navigating dialog boxes and applications with the keyboard. It is really easy to use the tab key to select different parts of the window and different buttons in a dialog box, if you know how to enable this behavior. Open System Preferences > Mouse and ...

TUAW Tip: endo's keyboard shortcuts rock

by David Chartier (Aug 29th, 2007)

Hi, my name is David Chartier, and I'm an RSS-aholic. [your collective response: Hi David] The last time I refreshed my newsreader was... well, probably a minute or two ago, and then 30 minutes before that. You see, I'm obsessed with news, and I've been using some sort of a newsreader for around ...

Love your Finder: A keyboard shortcut for adding items to the sidebar

by David Chartier (Aug 12th, 2007)

While the Mac web generally (and justifiably) has quite a few gripes with the long-disregarded Finder, it actually offers quite a few unsung features that make working with your files efficient and fun. The upcoming changes to the Finder in Leopard certainly do look nice, but I think it's about time ...

An AppleScript for selecting the iChat menubar item

by David Chartier (Jul 11th, 2007)

I understand if this might sound kinda weird, but hear me out: As an iChat user, I love the flexibility of its UI and the clever menubar item that displays all available contacts. Since I've found myself flying without displaying the buddy list more and more often lately, I've been wishing for a way ...