Your Windows system tray and Mac OS X menubar have become prime real estate for highly functional micro-applications that provide easy access to information, settings, and tasks. Here are our top ten favorites for both Windows and Mac. More »
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Top 10 Micro-Apps for Windows and Mac OS X [Lifehacker Top 10]
Posted on April 9, 2011
Turn Any Action Into a Keyboard Shortcut on Your Mac [Video]
Posted on February 2, 2011
Macs have some great built-in keyboard shortcuts, but if you want to create custom or global shortcuts that perform more complicated tasks, you’ll need to do a little extra legwork. Here’s how to turn virtually any action into a keyboard shortcut. More »
Apptivate Lets You Launch Applications with Custom Keyboard Shortcuts [Video]
Posted on January 13, 2011
Mac OS X: While it’s no AutoHotkey, Apptivate is a simple way to assign keyboard shortcuts to applications on a Mac. This means you can run AppleScripts with nothing more than a keystroke, too. More »
Use the Option Key to Pull Up System Preferences on a MacBook [Mac OS X Tip]
Posted on January 5, 2011
From the files of the Total Mac Beginner Dept.: Some things on a Mac require System Preferences fiddling to fix—keyboard settings, Expose/Spaces, and so on. Press Option and the related function key, and up comes the related preferences. More »
Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable [Lifehacker Top 10]
Posted on January 1, 2011
As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favorite labs to help increase your email productivity. More »
How to Remap Any Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X [Video]
Posted on December 29, 2010
Is a particular keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X giving you grief? If you want to remap it to something you’d like better, there’s a handy little setting in System Preferences that can help you out. More »
Hold Down Command-Shift-Option-Escape to Quickly Kill a Troublesome Application [Keyboard Shortcuts]
Posted on December 13, 2010
Mac OS X: There are plenty of ways to force quit an application in OS X, but you can do it quickly from the keyboard with this simple key command. More »
Shortcut Manager Is a Powerful Custom Shortcut Builder for Chrome [Downloads]
Posted on November 18, 2010
Chrome: If you’ve ever been annoyed you couldn’t find an extension that had the perfect shortcut for the task you wanted, Shortcut Manager is the tool for you; build custom shortcuts that access browser functions and even call JavaScript. More »
Command-Click OS X Dock Items to Show Them in Finder [Mac Tip]
Posted on November 5, 2010
File this under shortcuts-that-might-be-ancient-but-we-never-knew: with just a quick modifier key, you can show any dock item in the Finder, whether it’s an application or a file in a stack. More »
Use Ctrl+Shift+Click to Open Programs as Administrator in Windows 7 [Windows 7]
Posted on July 21, 2010
Windows 7: Everybody knows that you can right-click any application to launch it as administrator, but what you might not know is there’s an even quicker way you can trigger administrator mode. More »