C-apple emacs

C-n C-p C-f C-b C-d C-h C-k C-v the navigational commands in GNU EMACS work in Cocoa Mac OS X Leopard Applications (including Safari and Mail). I was thrilled to discover this as these key commands allow the user to stay in the home position for almost all task. Indeed with the addition of Quicksilver a mac user no longer has to use the rodent device Apple popularized. The only command missing is C-j, an alias for the RETURN key, a real pinky saver. Here's to the unixification of Apple.

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A different kind of switcher.

I've made the switch from Mac OS X to Ubuntu. I'll post my comments and observations in the coming weeks.

ULTIMATE menu master

So I went to all the trouble of setting up menu access using proxies via Quicksilver, Merlin Mann of 43 Folders so kindly video podcast for us, which is great because it's searchable; however, similar functionality Menu Master functionality is already available in Mac OS X for those times when you know where you're going. Plus the Quicksilver way is a little buggy in Camino and other browsers. I end up with a lot of duplicate bookmark listings.

If you haven't looked at the pro tips section of the apple website please do. It has a bunch of wonderful tips, like this Two Seconds to Sleep tip.