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OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Screen Capture to disk:

ʣ 3 Screen to jpeg file on desktop

ʣ 4 + Drag: Selection to jpeg file on desktop
ʣ 4 + Spacebar: Window (click camera) to jpeg file

Screen Capture to clipboard:

ʣ 3 + Ctrl: Screen to clipboard

ʣ 4 + Drag + Ctrl: Selection to clipboard
ʣ 4 + Spacebar + Ctrl Window (Camera effect)

Dock /Switch Applications

ʣ ! D Show/Hide Dock
ʣ Tab Switch applications
ʣ ` Switch between document Windows in current application
! Dock Switch application, hide previous one
ʣ Dock Switch application, hide all others
Ctrl ! ʣ * Toggle Monochrome Hi Visibility
ʣ +drag will prevent dock icons from moving out of the way
(useful when dragging items to the trash)

Apple Finder

! + Drag Explicit COPY (will copy even if destation is on same volume)

ʣ + Drag Explicit MOVE (will move even if destation is on different volume)
ʣ ! + Drag Make alias in new location
ʣ D Duplicate
ʣ L Make Alias
ʣ R Show original
ʣ O Open item
ʣ ! Open item
ʣ S Save
ʣ S Save as
ʣ N New Finder window
ʣ N New Folder
ʣ Q Quit Application
ʣ W Close Window
ʣ ! W Close all Windows
ʣ I Get Info
ʣ ! I Super Get Info (change whatever you click on)
ʣ ! Y Toggle Slideshow mode (show selected graphic files full-screen)
ʣ P Print
ʣ T Add to Favorites
ʣ Delete Move to Trash
ʣ E Eject
ʣ F Find
ʣ ~ Cycle finder windows (including desktop)
Tab Highlight next item
ʣ + double-click folder icon will open in new window
ʣ + " Move up one directory
ʣ + [ go back
ʣ + ] go forward
ʣ A Open Applications Folder
ʣ U Open Applications/Utilities/ Folder
ʣ H Open Home Folder
ʣ K Go to network
ʣ K Connect to server
ʣ G Go to folder... (type full path)
ʣ " Empty Trash (Finder Menu )
ʣ ! " Empty Trash without dialog

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Finder-Hide App:
ʣ H Hide Application
ʣ ! H Hide other applications

Hide all other apps*:

! ʣ + click on dock icon
! ʣ + click inside app window

Hide all other apps that are in front*:

! + click dock icon (of running app)
! + click inside app window

*Some older (pre-intel) apps may struggle with these

Terminal

ʣ left/right arrow Switch windows

ʣ 1 Switch to 1st terminal window
ʣ 2, ʣ 3... Switch to 2nd, 3rd window

Spotlight

ʣ Spacebar Activate/deactivate Spotlight

ʣ ! Spacebar Open Spotlight window
ʣ Return / ʣ Click Open the top/next item
ʣ ! / " Move to next/previous category

Editing Text (email, TextEdit etc)

! # Move one word left

! $ Move one word right
Control A Beginning of Sentence (Home)
Control E End of Sentence(End)
ʣ # Beginning of line
ʣ $ End of line
ʣ ! T Toggle character palette on/off
Scroll one page up (cursor retains position)
Scroll one page down (cursor retains position)
! Move one page up (reposition cursor)
! Move one page down
ʣ " or Scroll to beginning of document
ʣ ! or Scroll to end of document

Add shift key to the above to also select the text.

! " Delete word

! Del Delete next word
ʣ . Show hidden files in open and save dialogs (Snow Leopard only)
ʣ / Open Application Help (Search)

! Scrollbar Jump to exact scrollbar location

! Scrollbar arrows Scroll page at a time (page up/down)
! Volume up/down Open Sound preferences
Control Eject Turn display off (brightness=0)
! Brightness up/down Open Display preferences

Shutdown/Logoff:

POWER Sleep now

POWER Hold for 10 seconds (force shut down)
Ctrl Eject Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box
Ctrl Eject Sleep the display now
ʣ ! Eject Sleep the computer now

ʣ Ctrl Eject Quit all applications and restart

ʣ ! Ctrl Eject Shut down the computer now (Graceful Shutdown)

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ʣ ! Esc Force Quit menu - selectively force quit applications

ʣ ! Esc Hold for three seconds to Force Quit the foremost application (Leopard/Snow Leopard
ʣ .(period) Stop a process
ʣ Ctrl+power Immediate restart (dangerous, only use if the system is frozen)

Log out:

ʣ Q Log out (Apple Menu)

ʣ ! Q Log out immediately (Apple Menu)

During Startup:

Shift Safe Boot mode - Press shift asap AFTER the startup chime
ʣ V Start up in Verbose mode.
ʣ S Start up in Single-User mode (command line)
X Force OS X startup
ʣ ! " Bypass primary startup volume (will seek DVD or external disk)
C Start up from a CD (if it has a system folder)
D Start up from first partition
N Attempt to start up from a network server(NetBoot)
R Force PowerBook screen reset
T Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
Option Select startup disk
ʣ ! P R PRAM Reset - Hold down Cmd-Option-R with your left hand,
then press POWER to start up and immediately press P with your right hand.
See KB 2238 At the prompt you can type: reset-nvram and/or reset-all
ʣ ! O F Open Firmware
ʣ E Eject CD (press during/after startup chime)
mouse Eject CD (hold mouse button down during startup)

ʣ is the Command or Apple key

! is the Option or Alt key
is the Shift key
" is the Backspace key

System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse

To change any keyboard shortcuts (including per-application settings) : open Keyboard Shortcuts and press [+]
To reset to defaults, open Keyboard Shortcuts and press [Restore Defaults]

To enable keyboard control in dialog boxes: Keyboard > Full Keyboard Access=All Controls
Full keyboard access will allow you to use Tab,Shift-Tab,Enter, Esc and the Space bar to navigate a dialogue box.

Function Keys

F8 Toggle Space
F9 Show all open windows
F10 Show all open windows for an application
F11 Hide all windows
F12 Open/close Dashboard
Add to the above F.Keys for a slow-motion effect

Emacs style shortcuts

Ctrl+H: Backspace delete (right-to-left)

Ctrl+D: Forward delete (left-to-right)
Ctrl+K: Kill / delete text between cursor and the end of the line
Ctrl+U: Delete current line
Ctrl+T: Transpose two characters (typo)

Ctrl+A: Beginning of line (Home)

Ctrl+E: End of line (End)
Ctrl+B: Back (left) one character
Ctrl+F: Forward (right) one character
Ctrl+N: Next line down
Ctrl+P: Previous line up
Ctrl+V: Page down

'Command + Tab' cycles through Applications,

'Command + ~ (tilde)' cycles through an individual Applications windows"

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Related:
screencapture (screenshots of DVDs)
Applications:Utilities:Grab
Apple Kb HT1343 - Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference
Apple Kb HT1533 - Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs
Accent Codes for the Macintosh
DanRodney - OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS X Leopard: 200 Keyboard Shortcuts (Safari, Mail etc)
Mac OS X Key Bindings - erasetotheleft.com
XvsXP - Comparison with XP keyboard
Keyboard Layout.dmg - Swap the " and @ Keys for non-apple keyboards (Microsoft)

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