Loading ...Shortcuts and hotkeys? Pfft, for the geeks and the interested only.
..or that’s what I thought while I was still working in Microsoft’s Windows. As far as I was concerned, simple and well-known hotkeys such as ctrl+c/v/s and shift for capitalization was all I needed. And it was true as well, for I was perfectly fine listening to the sound of a clicking mouse, and was never aware of what Windows had to offer — or there wasn’t much Windows offered that was of interest to me (somehow I think the latter, you can try to convince me otherwise). Making the crucial and hard choice of ditching Windows and embracing Mac OS X, made the use of shortcuts and hotkeys essential to my successive workflow, as well as natural.
Hide it, don’t minimize it!
The option to be able to hide applications with a beautifully executed cmd+h instead of stuffing the dock with minimized windows, is one of my favorites. How many times have you not been flushed and frustrated at having way too many minimized windows cluttering up the bar? Remember the time before the age of tabbed browsers? Simply clicking the red fat X in the upper corner of a window in a mac won’t quit the application like you’re used to either – which really got on my nerves the first week – it only closes the window; quitting requires a cmd+q. You can of course go to the application menu to quit it manually too, but why go to such lengths when you can just hit two keys..
Workspaces and smooth transitions
Neat features such as Spaces and Exposé which enables me to switch through up to 9 different work spaces (I usually have one for general business, one for design and art, one for webdesign and coding, and one for music and movies) and quickly view all windows at once in a smooth transition instead of tabbing through all the gazillions before finally hitting the one I’m lookin’ for, are also feattures I’ve fallen in love with and become addicted of. The screen capture keystrokes shift+cmd+3/4/4+spacebar are also features I love as I screencap a lot, and needed a break from the awkward way Windows deals with it by copying, pasting and then saving.
My brand of heroine? (aka: hotkeys are addictive)
All this is of course only a few keystrokes away, and getting “blod på tann” as we say it in Norwegian, only left me wanting more of the ease of using hotkeys. And because ‘everyone’ in the macworld uses hotkeys as if their lives depended on it, my brain’s been branded that it’s normal; it’s how it’s supposed to be – it’s how we roll. So now I use hotkeys as if my life depended on it as well; for the obvious things I previously mentioned, to the smaller things such as switching from bucket to brush in PS and going from bold to italic in word/pages.
Windows can probably do a lot of the same things as well with a few tweaks and plugins installed – but it all comes bundled in Mac OS X, and that’s where the ease comes in (and that’s how even the mundies are able to take part of it, not only the ‘elite’). Besides, whether or not a person decides to use hotkeys or not, is just a question of introduction and teasing. A mac just happens to be very good at the teasing part — and its followers at introducing.
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Windows har hotkeys for alt. http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic1841.html
Selv om du var dust på windows så var noen av oss lynraske med hotkeys i alle retninger. ;)
Windows 7 fikk dog noen nye fine som jeg ble veldig for glad i. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/new-keyboard-shortcut-keys-hotkeys-in-windows-7/
Windows 7 does have some real nifty hotkeys!
I’m not saying windows doesn’t have hotkeys for a lot of the same commands, I’m saying that a mac just happens to be better at teasing!
Det er vel slik som Morghus sier. I Windows har du listen å forholde deg til. Eller du kan gi hver enkelt program en unik shortcut for å aktivere det. Er vel en selvfølge å kunne alt + tab hvis en hele tiden skal switche mellom shortcutliste og current app. Som sagt så har Apple slengt hotkey lables på sine funksjoner, og en masse in-app-standard hotkeys(med labels:D ) som ofte har de samme funksjonene gjennom alle programmer som installeres i OSet(ja, også tredjepart). Dette er nyttefunksjoner og ikke bare select/cut/copy/paste, og ctrl + alt + delete(denne lærer man trolig først).
En trenger nødvendigvis ikke være dust på Windows selv om en ikke kan alle hotkeyene for å åpne hjelp-menyen, eller alle kombinasjonene for å gjemme alle vinduer. Et fåtall av dem dekker et “hverdagslig behov”. Greit nok for de som humper tastaturet. Fine shortcuts er det. Men det går mye fortere å høyreklikke(eller mac style, shortcut for alle nyttefunksjoner i context menu også) enn å flytte handa for å få frem context menu for så å velge, and so on.
Slik som det skrives i posten. Hotkeys Mac OS gjør livet enklere. Hotkeys i Windows er for de spesielt interesserte. Alle hotkeys i Mac OS kan utføres med mus og vise-versa. Selvsagt er nyttig på alle systemer når musa går tom for batteri, eller naboen har spist ledningen din.
Uten tvil, Apple er bedre på å slenge inn hotkey labels på sine funksjoner enn Microsoft og dei som mekker program til Windows. I windows må ein leite, i Mac så står det attmed.
Functionality fail, ein må ha eiga liste for å få vite kva som er shortcuts i Windows… (ref: Nii-san’s link).
Så eg forstår deg godt, sjølv om eg kan ein haug med hotkeys. Eg bruker musa minst mulig ;_;
Ah, you got my point! Jeg har dog lært meg nå at hotkeys er en fantastisk ‘oppfinnelse’! Er jeg ekstra lat og føler meg ekstra heldig, bruker jeg voice commands mens jeg (stille) forbanner macen for å misforstå hva jeg sier :D
Voice commands faktisk? Haha, har opplevd at det blir berre rot, spesielt når eg skal ringe! “Ring pappa” … *ringer Jonathan* … “Nei, faen!” …”Huh? Joakim? Hva?” ><
Psj, det er bare dere som er for dumme. ;)
“De som ikke klarer å bruke windows trenger en mac.”