Shut down, log out and then restart on steroids.★

If you're one of those impatient types (like me), and hate confirmation windows, this could speed up things for you. Normally when you click Apple Menu>Restart, Shut Down or Log Out, a confirmation window pops up. While this is good sometimes, you may want to have the computer off asap and this will slow things down.
Instead, click the Apple menu as shown above, and then hold down the option(alt) key. The ellipses next to Shut Down, Restart and Log out will disappear and provided you keep the option key pressed, the desired action will be carried through with just the one click, and no confirmation box. Speed's things up a fair bit if you ask me.

As per MacTake tradition the option(alt) key is highlighted below.







Another nifty trick is if you want to Force Quit an app that you're currently in, and the cmd+option+escape keystroke is too laborious for your rsi tormented hands, click on the Apple menu and hold down the Shift key. The Force-Quit option will change to Force Quit 'Current App Name', continue holding down shift and click on it to immediately quit the app.

Adam Christianson, over at maccast.com told the world about today's first tip, about a year or at least 10 months ago. So kudo's to him, and I'm really just regurgitating it for any new mac users that obviously haven't been around to hear it directly from Adam.

Just a reminder about my exams: they're imminent and I can only update the MacTake every so often between study blocks so apologies if it seems a little stagnant around here. Feel free to continue to have a comment-based discussion and follow up if you want, I'll be able to check in on that more frequently.
Till next time folks! Happy Mac'ing!

Labels: tips

★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:59 PM | Links to this post

Leave a Reply.