Tim Cook (CEO of Apple, Inc.) has recently revamped the Mac Operating System up to some extent and given a new name says “OS X Mavericks”. Well, the most interesting news is that the new “OS X Mavericks” is not a proprietary OS anymore. It means, now, anyone can upgrade to latest OS X Mavericks without spending a single penny!
50 OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts you Never Knew
As we know that the purpose of releasing updates of any software is to add some advanced facilities to the existing version. Here also, it refers to the same thing; Apple has released new updates for the existing Mac OS X to provide additional functionalities to the users.
Still, Apple has not taken OS X Mavericks to the next level completely and therefore, only few enhancements are seen in the update log.
So, I hope that everyone has updated their Mac’s PC/Laptops to the latest OS X Mavericks and flirting with the updated features. Well, have you noticed that keyboard shortcuts are also updated with some new key combination to play with desktop, toolbar, dock, widget bar, applications and much more?
Hereupon, today, we are covering “50 OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts”. If you are an addicted Keyboard user then the below OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts will surely help you to work faster and harder with the Mavericks!
50 OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts
1. Command + R = Use OS X Recovery (Works on OS X Lion or later)
2. Command + V = Start your system in Verbose Mode
3. Command + S = Start your system in Single User Mode
4. Command + Shift + A = Open the Applications folder
5. Command + Shift + D = Open desktop folder
6. Command + E = Eject
7. Command + F = Find any matching Spotlight attribute
8. Command + Shift + F = Find Spotlight filename matches
9. Command + Option + F = Navigate to the search field in an already-open Spotlight window
10. Command + Shift + G = Go to Folder
11. Command + Shift + H = Open the Home folder of the currently logged-in user account
12. Command + I = Get Info
13. Command + Option + I = Show Inspector
14. Command + Control + I = Get Summary Info
15. Command + Shift + I = Open iDisk
16. Command + J = Show Different View Options
17. Command + K = Connect to Server
18. Command + Shift + K = Open Network Window
19. Command + L = Make alias of the selected item
20. Command + M = Minimize the current window
21. Command + Shift + N = Create a New Folder
22. Command + T = Add any specific item to Sidebar
23. Command + Shift + T = Add any specific item to Favorites
24. Command + Option + T = Hide Toolbar / Show Toolbar in Finder windows
25. Command + Shift + U = Open Utilities Folder
26. Command + Option + Y = Slide show (Works on Mac OS X v10.5 or later)
27. Command + Option + / = Turn font smoothing on or off
28. Command + Shift + 3 = Capture the screen to a file
29. Command + Shift + 4 = Capture a selection to a file
30. Command + Option + Space bar = Show the Spotlight search results window
31. Command + Option + D = Show or hide the Dock
32. Command + Control + D = Display the definition of the selected word in the Dictionary application
33. Command + H = Hide the windows of the currently running application
34. Command + Option + H = Hide the windows of all other running applications
35. Control + ↑ = Launch/Quit Mission Control
36. Command + = = Show/hide Widget bar
37. Command + ←= Scroll widget bar to the left
38. Command + → = Scroll widget bar to the right
39. Command + F3 = Show Desktop
40. Command + Tab = Switch application–cycle forward
41. Command + Shift + Tab = Switch application–cycle backward
42. Command + F1 = Toggles “Mirror Displays” for multi-monitor configurations
43. Command + F2 = Toggle Target Display Mode
44. Command + F5 = Toggle VoiceOver On / Off
45. Control + F7 = Temporarily override the current keyboard access mode in windows and dialogs
46. Control + F8 = Move to the status menus in the menu bar
47. Control + Shift + F6 = Move focus to the previous panel
48. Command + Y = Launch Quick Look
49. Command + Option + Esc = Fore to quit an running application
50. Control + ↓ = See all Application Window
Finally, here I complete the list of 50 OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts. Apart from the above mentioned OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts, if you know any other OS X Mavericks Keyboard Shortcuts then let us know by using below comments section!