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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Sizing and Setting Up Your Mac Boot Drive Page 2: Installing a Just-Right Mac System Page 3: Separate Data from System and Applications Page 4: High Performance Mac Configuration Page 5: Testing Mac Memory and Drives Page 6: Choosing the Right Mouse Page 7: Boot With the 64-bit Kernel Page 8: Set Finder Preferences Page 9: System Preferences (General) Page 10: How to Unhide your Library Folder on OS X Page 11: Set a Two-button Mouse Page 12: Keyboard Shortcuts Page 13: Disable the Caps Lock key Page 14: Declutter the Dock Page 15: Turn Off iTunesHelper Page 16: Exclude Items from Spotlight Page 17: Apple Mail Unread Mailbox Setup Page 18: Time Machine for Always-on Backup Page 19: Relocating the Home Directory Off the Boot Drive Page 20: Relocating Mail Off the Boot Drive Page 21: Relocating Documents Folder Off the Boot Drive Page 22: Relocating iTunes and iPhoto Libraries

Keyboard Shortcuts

In System Preferences, the Keyboard control panel lets you set up shortcuts that apply globally. Some of them are pre-assigned, but all can be changed.

An incredibly useful shortcut that I use frequently each and every day is Move focus to next window in application. I prefer to set this shortcuts to cmd ` (command key plus the backquote character), because that combination is relatively easy to type with one hand.

I also like to turn off a lot of shortcuts, like those for Universal Access, because I don’t use them, and they can interfere with shortcuts in other programs.