Spaces Tips

If you don’t use Spaces, YOU SHOULD!  If you do use spaces, here are some tricks:  

1. Move to another space by pressing Control-<space #>.  So, if I wanted to move to Space #3, I’d press Control-3, for instance.
2. Instead of opening up Spaces just to drag one window to another space, drag the window as you normally would, but this time push the mouse against the edge of the screen (while you’re dragging the window) and watch as you slide (with the window you’re dragging) to the adjacent space.  This one only works left-right or up-down… no diagonal dragging (oh well).
3. If you already know the number of the space that you’d like a particular window to move to, click and hold the window as if you’re going to move it around, then press the shortcut like you would in tip #1 above.  Your window will slide to that space and then you can position it on that space without letting go of the mouse.

Cool!

Fine-tune your audio volume

If you hold option and shift and then adjust your volume on your keyboard you’ll get 4 levels of volume for each of those volume “blocks” that appear on the screen.  Try it out, you’ll see what I mean.

This works on 3rd party keyboards too.  For instance, mine has a volume wheel and it works fine.