Take a Shortcut
Posted by Kristian on November 5, 2006
Those of you who’ve been to one of my sessions will have lived through my evangelistic tirade on using keyboard shortcuts and will know that I make no apologies for challenging the mouse-bound. By becoming familiar with these shortcuts you will, without a doubt, be well on your way to Power-User status. The rationale is simple, why use a mouse (which can involve up to 4 actions) when the same outcome can be achieved by pressing 2 keys that are under, or close, to your fingers. Now, I don’t wear a t-shirt with an anti-mouse slogan, but I know that you will get things done so much faster if you’re able to use a combination of mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
My little brother (although not so little at 29 and much taller than me) has just bought himself his first Mac (a Macbook) and of course I gave him the Keyboard shortcut spiel. 
I discovered this widget in his Dashboard today and thought I’d share it with you. Now don’t think that you need to learn them all by tomorrow, that’s just silly. Take 2 and add them to your repertoire, use them religiously for a week and then add another 2, use them for a week….. you get the idea.
xCuts by Leland Scott shows you all the available shortcuts with a flick to the Dashboard.
Windows also has a range of keyboard shortcuts available to users but unfortunately aren’t as easy to find as they are on a Mac (where they are listed next to the function in the menu) so here are some links forWindows shortcuts.
