Sunday, January 8, 2012
Breakfast at home: Bob's Red Mill oat bran hot cereal with fresh, sliced banana; cinnamon; California sage honey. Medicinal tisane. Caught up on journaling. Accidentally discovered a keyboard shortcut for Mac OS X (10.6.8) that I had never seen documented before: Open at least 3 applications. In one of those applications, open multiple documents (e.g., when I discovered this I was using TextWrangler). Press and hold the Command key while tapping the Tab key. The application switcher appears in the center of the screen. Each time you press the Tab key, the indicator switches applications. When the indicator is on the application that has multiple windows open, and while keeping the Command key held down, press and release the 1 key. The display changes to show tiled thumbnails of all the windows open in that application. You can then release the Command key and use the arrow keys to select one of the documents, and pressing Enter changes focus to that document. You can also begin typing the name of one of the documents and the focus will change to that document—except this did not work for me in the case of a document called 01.xml, and I don't know why. This thumbnails display is essentially the same as the feature in Expose called "All windows" except that with this shortcut that application doesn't need to have the current focus—you have access to it from any application and, if you have multiple Spaces, from any Space. I then learned from a Google search that resulted in a YouTube video that Command+DownArrow and Command+UpArrow invoke the same thumbnails display. And in experimenting, I found that pressing the H key (before pressing-and-releasing the 1 key) toggles the hiding in the Dock of minimized windows, but I'm not sure how useful that really is. Unloaded pix from iPhone. Folded laundry. Lunch: macaroni and cheese with Dorot cilantro and fresh, diced tomato. Cut my hair, showered. Dinner at home with Patrick: homemade curry with tofu and vegetables, naan, water. Watched Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. I am surprised that I still have a largeish bruise on my left thigh from when Buddy the dog bumped into me almost a week ago on the catamaran. Buddy had been panicking from something unknown, and in his panic his head hit my thigh. It hurt instantly and for a few minutes after, but not badly, and I haven't really thought about it since that day.