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Finder

The Macintosh Desktop Experience

Shortcut Description
N New Finder window
N New folder
N New smart folder
spacebar Quick look selected item
I Open inspector for selection
Remove selected file
Empty trash
Edit selected file name
1 Switch to icons view
2 Switch to list view
3 Switch to column view
4 Switch to coverflow view
1 Arrange files by name
2 Arrange files by modification
3 Arrange files by creation
4 Arrange files by size
5 Arrange files by kind
6 Arrange files by label
Go to parent directory
O Open selected file/directory
G Go to folder
H Go to Home
A Go to Applications
D Go to Desktop
C Go to Computer
K Display Network
K Connect to server
[ Go back
] Go forward

Mac OS X

The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.

Shortcut Description
Force quit
eject Sleep now
Q Log out
Q Log out without confirming
eject Restart Mac OS X
eject Sleep display
eject Shutdown
Cycle between opened apps
Cycle between opened apps in reverse order
` Cycle between opened windows
` Cycle between opened windows in reverse order
F4 Cycle between opened windows from all applications
F4 Cycle between opened windows from all applications in reverse order
F8 Display Spaces
F9 Exposé for all windows
F10 Exposé for windows in select app
F11 Reveal desktop
F12 Dashboard
F2 Activate Apple menu bar
F3 Activate Dock
F8 Activate Menu Extras (right side of menu bar)
space Activate Spotlight
= Zoom in
_ Zoom out
volume Change volume without sound effect
volume Fine-grained volume control
volume Open Sound preference pane
brightness Open Display preference pane
C Force boot from DVD (while booting)
D Force boot from first internal hard-drive (while booting)
Safe mode (while booting)
V Enable verbose mode (while booting)
S Enable Single User Mode (while booting)
Open System Picker with bootable systems from mounted devices (while booting)

Photoshop

The professional standard image-editing software.

Shortcut Description
K Open keyboard shortcuts window
K Open preferences window
G Group selected layers
G Ungroup selected layers
E Merge layers
E Merge visible layers
N New layer
J Duplicate selected layer
A Select all layers
[ Move layer down
] Move layer up
M Marquee tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
V Move tool
L Lasso tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
W Quick selection tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
C Crop tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
I Eyedropper tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
G Gradient tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
T Text tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
D Selection tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
U Shape tool (keep shift pressed to switch tool)
Z Zoom tool
T Free transform
Z Undo
Z Undo multiple actions
Z Redo
I Set image size
C Set canvas size
0 Fit to screen
1 View actual size (100%)
+ Zoom in
- Zoom out

TextMate

The missing editor. Code and markup brought to the 21st century.

Shortcut Description
Go to the end of line
Go to the beginning of line
Select text from cursor to the end of line
Select text from cursor to the beginning of line
Select text from cursor to the end of word
Select text from cursor to the beginning of word
Move current line/selection up
Move current line/selection down
[ Unindent current line/selection
] Indent current line/selection
B Select current scope
W Select current word
L Select current line
B Select enclosing brackets
Go to the beginning of document
Go to the end of document
Go to the beginning of word
Go to the end of word
L Go to line
T Go to file
T Go to symbol
[1-9] Go to tab
] Go to next tab
[ Go to previous tab
L Show/Hide line numbers
B Show/Hide bookmarks
F2 Bookmark current line
F2 Go to next bookmark
F2 Go to previous bookmark
N Show document/selection stats
P Show current scope
D Duplicate current line/selection
K Delete current line/selection
/ Comment/Uncomment current line/selection
F5 Sort selected lines
D Toggle drawer
W Toggle soft wrap
R Reveal current file in project
[ Unindent current line/selection
V Paste from history
V Paste previous entry
F Find
F Find in project
G Find next
G Find previous
F Replace all
F Replace in selection
F Replace and find
E Use selection to find
E Use selection to replace
Complete word based on current document
U Uppercase text
U Downcase text
U Titlecase text
G Opposite case
Open bundle menu
[A-Z] Switch between different languages
T Select bundle item
E Execute current line/selection as Ruby code
P Preview document
O Switch between insert and overwrite mode
Q Reformat the current paragraph
J Reformat and justify current paragraph
Q Remove any newline character from current paragraph
T Display TODO List
B Open Bundle editor
lorem Generate text placeholder
V Paste selection to Paste Bin
] Align variable assignments
Switch between editing window and project drawer
K Delete from cursor to the end of line
backspace Delete from cursor to the start of line
space Rename the current selected file (on the drawer)

Xcode

Your integrated development environment for creating iPad, iPhone, and Mac apps.

Shortcut Description
N New project
N New file
N New empty file
O Open
N Open in separate editor
D Open quickly
I Show inspector
W Close window
W Close all
W Close project
W Close current file
S Save file
S Save all
S Save as
S Save copy as
U Revert to saved
S Make snapshot
J Refactor
D Add to bookmarks
L Go to line
. Next completion
Completion list
/ Select next placeholder
F Find in project
F Find in file
G Find next
G Find previous
E Use selection for find
E Use selector for replace
J Jump to selection
F Detail
E Zoom editor out
E Zoom editor out fully
Go forward
Go backward
Switch to Header/Source
T Reveal in group tree
Fold
Unfold
U Unfold all
Fold method/functions
Unfold method/functions
Fold comment blocks
Unfold comment blocks
F Focus follows selection
H Show all message bubbles
H Hide all message bubbles
0 Go to project
C Class browser
N New group
G Group
G Ungroup
A Add to project
E Edit active target
X Edit active executable
B Build results
B Build
enter Build and Go
R Build and Run
Y Build and Debug
K Clean
= Next build warning/error
= Previous build warning/error
K Compile
B Show model browser
F Diagram bring to front
B Diagram bring to back
L Diagram lock
L Diagram unlock
+ Diagram zoom in
- Diagram zoom out
= Diagram zoom to fit
F Force directed layout
H Hierarchical layout
enter Go
R Run
Y Debug
enter Stop
Y Debugger
R Console
R Clear console
B Show breakpoints
\ Turn breakpoints on
\ Add breakpoint at current line
\ Enable breakpoint at current line
P Pause
I Step into
I Step into instruction
O Step over
O Step over instruction
T Step out

iTunes

Everything you need to be entertained

Shortcut Description
L Display current playing track
N New playlist
N New playlist from selected
N New smart playlist
I Get info
Increase volume
Decrease volume
space Pause
Next song
Previous song
1 iTunes
2 Equalizer
3 Display tracks as list
4 Display tracks as album list
5 Display tracks as grid
6 Display tracks as Cover Flow
G Toggle sidebar
J View column options
Play track from the beginning
T Show visualizer
M Switch to mini player

Keyboard symbols

  • ⌘: command
  • ⌥: option
  • ⇧: shift
  • ⇥: tab
  • ⌃: control
  • ⌦: delete
  • ↩: return
  • ⎋: esc
  • ↑: arrow up
  • →: arrow right
  • ↓: arrow down
  • ←: arrow left