{"id":4862,"date":"2017-12-21T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2018-05-28T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T06:37:26","slug":"my-3-favourite-secret-mac-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/21\/my-3-favourite-secret-mac-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"My 3 favourite &#8220;secret&#8221; Mac moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, they&#8217;re not secrets&#8230; But it seems that, whenever I do one of these, and a &#8220;Mac person&#8221; is watching over my shoulder, they ask &#8220;how did you do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that there are Windows equivalents to all of these &#8211; but I&#8217;ve lived on a Mac for almost 30 years&#8230; Been a long time since I switched from an x86 machine to my brand-new Mac Classic!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Small steps in volume and brightness changes<\/h2>\n<p>Before pressing the &#8220;volume up&#8221; or &#8220;volume down&#8221; buttons, hold down <strong>OPTION+SHIFT<\/strong>. This will give you 4 times as many volume steps.<\/p>\n<p>The same works for screen brightness and keyboard brightness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Switching Safari tabs<\/h2>\n<p>Version 1: <strong>COMMAND + number<\/strong> will bring you directly to a tab.<\/p>\n<p>Version 2: <strong>COMMAND+SHIFT<\/strong> + left\/right arrow keys will move you left and right through your tabs. (Note that this one will not work with some webpages. For example, if you&#8217;re editing a WordPress posting, then this function is disabled on that tab.)<\/p>\n<p>Note that, in the Finder, the second of these will work the same. The first will not &#8211; COMMAND+number in the Finder will change your view instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>FIND in open Safari Tabs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open up a bunch of different pages in different tabs in a Safari window<\/li>\n<li>Show all tabs (under the VIEW menu)<\/li>\n<li>Press COMMAND-F for find<\/li>\n<li>Start typing a word &#8211; Safari will automatically start showing only the tabs that contain the search word<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, they&#8217;re not secrets&#8230; But it seems that, whenever I do one of these, and a &#8220;Mac person&#8221; is watching over my shoulder, they ask &#8220;how did you do that?&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that there are Windows equivalents to all of these &#8211; but I&#8217;ve lived on a Mac for almost 30 years&#8230; Been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-mac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1gq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}