“OS X Mountain Lion brought with it a world of new keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures that make working with your Mac faster and easier,” Alan Henry reports for Lifehacker. “We’re still getting used to many of them, but here are some of our favorites right out of the gate that you should definitely learn.”
Finder Shortcuts
• Bring back “Save As” by Holding the Option key when in the File menu
• Launch Mountain Lion’s new Dictation app by pressing the Function key (fn) twice
Application Shortcuts
• Disable Notification Center for one day by Alt + Left-Clicking
• Look up a word in the dictionary by tapping it with three fingers
More shortcuts in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: OS X Mountain Lion’s dictation feature works so well that we almost teared up with joy! That’s not an overstatement. Dictating the tags for this article and parts of other articles is a real boon for us. We’re going to be double tapping the function key a lot on our Macs! In fact, this Take was dictated using OS X Mountain lion’s dictation feature. We only had to go back to capitalize the “T” in take.