Remember, almost all of these commands have one or two other ways of doing them through the menu bar and right click. !

Commands that translate directly!!⌘-c (copy), ⌘-x (cut), ⌘-v (paste), ⌘-z (undo), ⌘-a (select all) !⌘-p (print) ⌘-T (new tab), ⌘-N (new window or document), ⌘-W (close window), ⌘-O (open), ⌘-tab (switch application), ⌘-` (switch window). !⌘-B/I (bold, italic text), ⌘+/- (zoom out/in or if text is selected increase/decrease size), ⌘-K (create hyperlink) !⌘-1,2,3,4,5,etc (goes directly to the sites in your favorites in chronological order) ⌘-D (add bookmark) ⌘-Shift-N (new incognito window) Ctrl-tab (switch browser tab) !

Useful new commands!!⌘-option-esc (force quit menu) !Spotlight - universal search for all the applications and documents on your computer: ⌘-Spacebar Extend it with Flashlight !Screenshots: !⌘-Shift-3 (creates screenshot of entire screen) ⌘-Shift-4 (lets you draw an area to screenshot) ⌘-Shift-4-Spacebar (lets you select a window to screenshot) !

Trackpad Gestures!!2 finger click - right click/contextual menu. Unlike Windows, you can execute a menu item in one single right click and drag. 2 finger scroll - follows content, not scrollbars. 2 finger pinch to zoom - exactly like mobile devices to zoom in Safari, changes % scale by 25% like ⌘+/- in Chrome. 3 fingers moving up - Mission Control, shows all of your open windows grouped by application as well as applications in fullscreen mode. Allows you to drag the position of fullscreen apps. 3 finger swipe to either side - move between fullscreen applications, your desktop, and Dashboard. The fullscreen app button is at the upper right in 10.7-10.9 and occupies the green button on the left in 10.10+.

4 fingers pinching away from middle - show desktop 4 fingers pinching from the outside to the middle - show launchpad, an application launcher 2 finger pinch out in Safari - tab birds eye view mode 2 finger swipe from the right side aluminum to the left of the touchpad - show notification center !!Quit: ⌘-Q !Windows programs run with each window being a separate process. When all windows have been closed, the program is not running. On OS X the entire application is unified by one universal menu bar at the top of the screen and one icon in the dock. For this reason most applications are quit using ⌘-Q, right clicking on the icon in the dock and hitting quit, or clicking on the name menu in the menu bar and clicking quit. Some applications that only ever have one window and don’t run background processes, like System Preferences, will quit on a window closing. !Force Quit Menu: ⌘-option-esc !

Installing applications!!Most applications on OS X are self contained, unlike Windows that requires putting files in many places. The application you double click to open contains all the files needed to run the application. They’ll download as a DMG, which is like a virtual DVD, and will have a simple drag and drop of the .app to your applications folder. A few applications that need to access more privileges will still run installers called .pkg’s, and Apple would prefer you just get everything from the Mac App Store, but fuck that. !

iCloud!!iWork - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, most system document applications, as well as many 3rd party applications, use iCloud. When saving a file it allows you to either save it to any folder on your computer, where it will only be stored locally, or to iCloud, where it will be stored both locally and in the cloud accessible from your iPhone and on any computer from iCloud.com. In iWork you can click Share/Share via iCloud and get a link to send people much like Google Docs. iCloud also allows you to sign in to iMessage and FaceTime on your Mac, sync browser tabs between your iPhone and Mac, and more. For iPhone users, Messages on your Mac syncs your iPhone’s text conversations, and you can send and receive both SMS and iMessages. FaceTime on OS X allows phone calls to be received on your Mac from your iPhone. !

Must have applications!

!Use Safari. Seriously. It has the best battery life, the best performance, syncs seamlessly with your iPhone, and integrates best with trackpad gestures and the retina display. I feel similarly about using iWork over Microsoft Office. I still keep Chrome, Firefox, and even Opera on my computer, but mostly as a web developer. !!Freeware: !Flashlight - make Spotlight search and do essentially anything !The Unarchiver - replaces the default archive utility and will open essentially any compressed filetype, rather than just .zip. !Mail client - Mailbox (also available for iOS and Android) !Twitter client - Twitter !CloudApp - Menubar app with simple drag and drop upload to a cloud service to share images and other documents ! RDM.app (direct download link) - Retina Display Manager that allows you to select all of the available resolutions from the menubar !Play essentially every movie file type ever - VLC !Plex Media server - obtain your own copies of movies and TV shows and view them streaming from your Mac to your Roku and or phone with this, creating an experience that looks and feels like Netflix with local files. Often easier than plugging a cable into your TV to your laptop. !AppCleaner - while applications are contained, the user preferences of them are stored in the Library folder, meaning if you ever reinstall them, you’ll have the same settings as before. If you know you’ll never do that or want to reset a trial of software, use this to find and delete those files. Simply drag and drop the application you want to delete on it. !BetterTouchTool - by default enables Windows “aerosnap” like features, also allows you to make custom touchpad gestures. !Excellent open source code editor - Brackets !AVG Cleaner on the Mac App Store - find duplicate iTunes songs. !ClipMenu - clipboard (copy and paste) history. !

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