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From: Richard Tobin on 19 May 2010 09:50
In article <85crmrFessU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

>Holding down the Option key while you click the Apple menu will turn
>"About This Mac" menu item into "System Profiler..."

Apple user interface guideline number 1: ensure that the system is
intuitive to use by providing pointless short cuts attached to
completely arbitrary combinations of key and mouse clicks.

-- Richard

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 19 May 2010 09:59
On 19 May 2010 13:50:08 GMT, richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
wrote:

>In article <85crmrFessU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>>Holding down the Option key while you click the Apple menu will turn
>>"About This Mac" menu item into "System Profiler..."
>
>Apple user interface guideline number 1: ensure that the system is
>intuitive to use by providing pointless short cuts attached to
>completely arbitrary combinations of key and mouse clicks.

It always takes me about five tries to get the "make alias" key combo
right. The rest I'm pretty good with.

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Chris Ridd on 19 May 2010 11:26
On 2010-05-19 14:59:01 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

> On 19 May 2010 13:50:08 GMT, richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
> wrote:
>
>> In article <85crmrFessU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Holding down the Option key while you click the Apple menu will turn
>>> "About This Mac" menu item into "System Profiler..."
>>
>> Apple user interface guideline number 1: ensure that the system is
>> intuitive to use by providing pointless short cuts attached to
>> completely arbitrary combinations of key and mouse clicks.
>
> It always takes me about five tries to get the "make alias" key combo
> right. The rest I'm pretty good with.

It is pretty common for the option key to change the contents of menus.

--
Chris

From: zoara on 19 May 2010 18:13
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
> > > On 2010-05-17 10:16:58 +0100, Woody said:
> > >
> > > > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
> > > > >> I would if I knew how and it didn't involve prising the Mini
> > > > > > apart. I'm
> > > >> quite new to Macs.
> > > > > If you look under your apple menu, 'about this mac' and then
> > > > > click
> > > > > 'more
> > > > info', there is a section for drives, and it should give you the
> > > > model
> > > > number and lots of other info
> > >
> > > Holding down the Option key while you click the Apple menu will
> > > turn
> > > "About This Mac" menu item into "System Profiler..."
> >
> > Brilliant!
>
> Calm down chap, useful certainly, not that brilliant !

I'd had a very uneventful day.

-z-

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