Bournemouth — Oct 20th 2015

After a battle with a Mac and projector that were not on speaking terms, John Hooper got off to a late start in showing us how keyboard shortcuts, in lieu of using the mouse for everything, can improve the efficiency of common tasks on the Mac and now iPad too. We discovered that most of us use few shortcuts beyond cut and paste.
John distributed a comprehensive reference sheet of shortcuts and highlighted their use of Command, Shift, Option and Control modifier keys (and Function sometimes too).
He presented the application switcher (Command-Tab) and showed how it can even recover hidden applications by adding Option to the mix. Next up was the global zoom feature, Command-Option-Plus and Minus, that must first be enabled in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences.
Finally John proved how much can be done without the mouse by completing a task without using it at all (well, almost!). We then looked briefly at an iPad with iOS 9 and a bluetooth keyboard showing many of the same shortcuts working - well done Apple on consistency.

There was also a brief discussion on file aliases (small files whose sole purpose when "opened" is to trigger their parent file, wherever it may be).
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