DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
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Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Oct 29 2007 08:51 PM
Bored with your computer. Here's an easy trick that reverses the color on your display. Go to preferences and click on 'universal access'. Then click on
Black on White'. Alternately, you can use the shortcut by holding down the Ctrl,Alt-option and Apple key at the same time, then press the number 8 (not on keypad, above the letters). On my mac, the shortcut reverses but only black and white, universal access reverses the colors. To reverse do the same. Try it, it's fun.
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diceophonic
Joined: May 20, 2006
Posts: 2174
PacNW (Vancouver, Wa U.S.A.)
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Posted on Oct 29 2007 09:26 PM
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DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11046
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Oct 29 2007 09:32 PM
It should. give it a try, can't hurt.
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Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF
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boyecho
Joined: Mar 05, 2006
Posts: 251
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Posted on Oct 29 2007 10:16 PM
sure does. and it's a neat trick. when i can't use a lot of screen light.
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B_Zilla
Joined: Oct 13, 2007
Posts: 90
Rochester, NY
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Posted on Oct 29 2007 10:24 PM
Nice trick. Good find.
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25540
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 11:57 AM
can someone do a screen capture and post it for us non Mac users.
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Stormtiger
Joined: Dec 12, 2006
Posts: 2682
Ventura, CA
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 12:07 PM
I just did a screen capture and it came out positive.
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DannySnyder
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Posts: 11046
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 12:13 PM
I think it affects the monitor not the image. Sorry PC users 
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Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
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Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 12:16 PM
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Stormtiger
Joined: Dec 12, 2006
Posts: 2682
Ventura, CA
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 12:50 PM
But I can reverse the image in Photoshop to show you what it looks like. I had to shrink the image, I have a new iMac with a huge cinema display.
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25540
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 12:58 PM
Freaky 
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boyecho
Joined: Mar 05, 2006
Posts: 251
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 03:32 PM
you reeeeally need to organize that desktop!
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Stormtiger
Joined: Dec 12, 2006
Posts: 2682
Ventura, CA
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 04:32 PM
Yikes! I didn't realize I was letting everyone see my top secret files.
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estreet
Joined: Mar 17, 2007
Posts: 839
United Kingdom
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 05:12 PM
Macs are full of neat little tricks like that: Shift/Applekey/4 brings up a crosshair, that when you drag it, captures whatever screen area you drag it over as an image file which it saves to the desktop. I use that quite a lot.
Also, the zoom feature is useful: applekey/alt/+ zooms in... applekey/alt/- zooms out on the screen.
If that doesnt work yet then applekey/alt/8 turns the function on or off.
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DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11046
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Oct 30 2007 08:17 PM
estreet
Macs are full of neat little tricks like that: Shift/Applekey/4 brings up a crosshair, that when you drag it, captures whatever screen area you drag it over as an image file which it saves to the desktop. I use that quite a lot.
Also, the zoom feature is useful: applekey/alt/+ zooms in... applekey/alt/- zooms out on the screen.
If that doesnt work yet then applekey/alt/8 turns the function on or off.
Estreet, that zoom out trick is just the ticket for posts that extend beyond my 15" monitor. Thanks!!!
— Danny Snyder
"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo
Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta
Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party
Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF
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PolloGuitar
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 5090
San Francisco
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Posted on Nov 04 2007 02:26 PM
Here's another Mac trick.
Hold the shift key while you hit the Yeloow window close button and watch the window slowly pour into your dock.
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planish
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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Sackville, New Brunswick
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Posted on Jan 13 2008 02:29 AM
estreet
Also, the zoom feature is useful: applekey/alt/+ zooms in... applekey/alt/- zooms out on the screen.
I've been using the Control key with the mouse scroll wheel to do that zoom in/out thing. Didn't know about the key-only trick.
Shift/scroll wheel will scroll a window horizontally, if there is a scroll bar.
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midwestsurfguy
Joined: Mar 19, 2006
Posts: 950
Oxford, Ohio
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Posted on Jan 17 2008 09:21 PM
"Macs are full of neat little tricks like that: Shift/Applekey/4 brings up a crosshair, that when you drag it, captures whatever screen area you drag it over as an image file which it saves to the desktop. I use that quite a lot."
While it is in crosshair mode just hit the spacebar and the crosshairs turn into a camera. What ever highlights when you point the camera at it will be in the picture! It great for making directions, you can take the picture of dialog boxes and stuff with no background to trim.
Thanks
Guy
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