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Some Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Please note that if the keyboard shortcuts do not work this might be because of your system version, or that you don't have that keyboard shortcut turned on.

⌘+tab = Switch applications. Keep holding down ⌘ after you press tab. Press tab again to go to next application.

⌘+⌥+esc = Force quit applications

⌘+ñ+Q = Log out

⌘+⌥+⏏ = Sleep

⌘+⌃+⏏ = Restart

F12+⏏ = Force eject disk. Only works if held down while starting up.

⌘+⌥+⌃+8 = Invert screen colours.

⌘+⌥+8 = Enable/disable zoom in/out with ⌘+⌥+= (zoom in) or ⌘+⌥+- (zoom out)

fn+⌃+F2 = Focus on menu bar. Use arrow keys and return to navigate.

fn+⌃+F3 = Focus on dock. Use arrow keys to navigate and return key to select.

⌥+any function key. (Along the top of the keyboard.) = Open System Preferences Pane related to to that key.

⌘+ñ+3 = Take screen capture.

⌘+ñ+4 = Take screen capture of certain part of screen. Press space select certain window.

⌘+esc = Enter Front Row.

⌘+Q = Quit current application. Does not work on all applications.

⌘+⌥+Click on weather widget = Rotate through different weather images.

This is just a few of the keyboard shortcuts that are possible. If you have anymore please post it in the comments.

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iPhone Ringtones

This post really has nothing to do with Terminal.app, but I thought that someone might find this useful. Click here to download all the default iPhone and iPod Touch ringtones. If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch and you somehow deleted the ringtones, you can SSH these back into it by downloading OpenSSH from Cydia and downloading Fugu from here (Fugu is a Mac application that can transfer files to and from servers). I also recommend downloading SBSettings from Cydia so you can turn off OpenSSH when you want to. Then put the ringtones into the folder /Library/Ringtones. You can also put your own ringtones in this folder, just make sure that they are in .m4r format, and that they are 30 seconds or less.

Changing the Volume

Sorry about not posting for a while. I don't think I will be able to achieve the three times a week goal. I will definitely post at least once a week. This post is about using the osascript command to change the volume. This command is best used with SSH (click here to see my post about SSH,) because you can use the volume buttons on the keyboard if you're in front of the computer. Open Terminal.app then, leaving out the $ sign, type:

$osascript -e'set volume 5'

Please note the the "5" can be replaced by any number from 0 through 7. The lower the number the lower the volume. For some reason I get an error message when I run the command, but it still works as described. Make sure you don't blow your speakers when using this command.