Neat trick in OSX

[Itsbackfliptime]

So if you have a mac hold down your ctrl button and scroll with either your mouse or trackpad. Everything should zoom in on the screen. Its pretty cool and super convenient while I lounge on my couch with my bluetooth keyboard and mouse (the new keyboards are sick by the way).

 

[jimmychung]

holy shit i didn't know that!

awesome! i'm going to use this so much. macs have so many cool tricks.

 

[Thomson.]

Firefox/Internet explorer allow you to do this too.

 

[fillup]

fuck you.

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

it doesn't just make the text bigger. It makes the whole screen bigger.

 

[Thomson.]

oh thats kinda cool

 

[GatoGordo]

it actually turns a small monitor into a big one? well i have to call shenanigans in that.

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

yup. It physically alters your screen. Be careful though. I accidently put a giant hole in the ceiling because I made it to big.

 

[drewishish]

anyother tricks? these things are always fun.

 

[eheath]

So good for watching edits online.

 

[Schoellkopf]

it isnt working for me, shit

 

[Nicholas.]

thats how skiierman fixed his issue...

 

[fragglemuffin]

sick nasty

 

[Lord_Piot]

wow....how did you even figure out how to use the internet.

 

[ColbyV]

sick, good to know

 

[Austin_Smith]

Good for watching....Porn.

 

[lushlaxstr]

neat!

 

[fourhundred]

yaa we all figured this out at school last year, it was big secret!!!!!!

 

[drewishish]

nobody said it was? its cool, not everybody knew about it so he told us.

 

[danedegruyter]

THE FAUNT GETS BIGGER??!?!!?

 

[ryanwar6]

if you are watching a movie in quicktime, hold down the shift key when you minimize the movie and it does it in slow motion. not that useful, but kind of tight

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

you can do that with any window in OSX.

 

[ryanwar6]

I know, but the cool thing about watching a movie, is that when you minimize it, you can keep watching it as it minimizes

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

omg where'd my mouse go. Lollerblades.

 

[sherpasrock]

cmd+option+control+8 is another one.

 

[ihatemyscratches]

dayum, that's sick

 

[lineskis360]

WOWWWW thats sick im gunna use that sooo much

 

[Nihiriju]

in leopard the pixel quality is apparently not going to go down when you do that little trick, that will be dope, at least for fonts types and screens, pics will obvs go down. 

 

[cobble_hills]

Shift-apple-4 and you can take a snapshot of any size using the cursor

 

[SHREDDY]

where does that picture go to?

 

[tandan83]

wow. I thought I knew about a lot a these tricks, but these are some new ones. try open apple+esc to get frontrow without a remote

 

[ECfreeski3]

keep em coming tese are great!

 

[eheath]

Little sketchy, if someone walks in there is no way you're exiting out in time.

 

[.scott.]

you guys are awesome. some of those are really handy. i need this in my threads.

 

[samurai_jack]

ya where does it go???

 

[jmason]

your desktop. there's a bunch of these actually:

[shift]+[apple]+[3] is just a normal screenshot

if you do [shift]+[apple]+[4] you can drag the area of the picture you want

and if you do [shift]+[apple]+[4], and then press [space] before you drag, it becomes a window cap, and you choose which visible window it is that you want to take the picture of. (try it if you don't understand, you'll understand soon enough. make sure you have at least one open window of an application though.

and the pictures go to your desktop labelled picture 1, picture 2, etc...

 

[SHREDDY]

I figured out that it goes to the desktop...

 

[danbrown]

damn the only one i knew was ctrl+option+command+8 to invert the colors, but these are all sweet. keep em comin

 

[samurai_jack]

where is command?? sorry im new to macs

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

the apple key. Its next to the spacebar on both sides.

 

[tandan83]

wow. I thought I knew about a lot a these tricks, but these are some new ones. try open apple+esc to get frontrow without a remote