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Six Mac Shortcuts I Love
You know that cotton-headed feeling after you’ve updated your way-behind grade-book? That’s where I am right now.
Luckily, it was a good experience. I love the discussion on our AP Lit Ning about Laurence Olivier in King Lear. The forum was 12 pages long since being assigned on Thursday, and I hadn’t looked at it. Nice to see the seniors get into it. Nice to see they discovered Sir Laurence, too. (That Ning is open to the public, remember. If you like Lear, you’re welcome to pop in. “Where is God?” and “Was Shakespeare an atheist?” are two questions that are beautifully flogged.)
I also skimmed the 28 new student blogs. A handful were already compelling enough for me to add to the Young Writers 07 wiki I started with Chrissy in New Zealand last week.
Anyway, that semi-lobotomic post-gradebook daze prompted me to share with you Mac-owners this little gift:
My Six Favorite Mac Shortcuts
- Forward delete: FN + DEL
- Zoom desktop: CTRL + 2-finger scroll up and down on trackpad
- Zoom browser text, but browser and website container sizes don’t change: CTRL + APPLE + 2-finger scroll on trackpad (this one’s fantastic - you have to try it to really appreciate it)
- Spacebar: next section down on webpage
- Spacebar + Shift: next section up on webpage
- Apple + Shift + r : refresh cache (useful for plugin dinking)
Have any you’d like to share? Add ‘em.
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