OSX Power Use
I did a brief presentation at work today, and these were my "show notes":
OSX 'Killer Apps'
Quicksilver:
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
your do everything app, that really should have been in the box
find some great 'how to's on 43 folders: http://www.43folders.com/topics/quicksilver/
Growl:
http://growl.info/
The ultimate notifier. Fully customizable notifications for all of the best programs in osx. Transferring lots of files via ftp? growl can actually speak to you and tell you its done, if you so desire.
Transmit:
http://www.panic.com/transmit/
the ultimate ftp program on any platform. Hooking into just about every part of osx (widgets, dashboard). Transmit can handle the simplest tasks elegantly, and the most complicated tasks with ease
Textmate:
http://macromates.com/
I'm using it right now :) The ultimate text editor. A plethora of languages, especially flash and html, inbuilt to give you hints, auto formatting and help as well as so many little things, you wont fully understand till you try it.
Automator:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/
Comes with the OS , and is totally underrated. learn to use it to save yourself literally hours of work down the track.
Helpful commands:
Text
⌃A move to beginning of paragraph
⌃K delete text to end of paragraph
⌃T reverse characters
⌥⌫ delete word to left
⌥⌦ delete word to right
Text Field
⌥← move one word left
⌥→ move one word right
⌘← move to beginning of line
⌘→ move to end of line
Screen Grabs:
Full screen (Save to Desktop) CMD+Shift+3
Full screen (Save to Clipboard) CMD+CTRL+Shift+3
Select region (Save to Desktop) CMD+Shift+4
Select region (Save to Clipboard) CMD+CTRL+Shift+4
Select item (Save to Desktop) CMD+Shift+4 then Spacebar
Select item (Save to Clipboard) CMD+CTRL+Shift+4 then Spacebar
Showing off:
hold shift while minimizing, maximizing, using expose or opening dashboard :)
