Essential Option-click tips for Mac users

The Mac keyboard’s Option key is situated between the Command (⌘) and Control (ctrl) key, the Option (alt) key modifies many of the macOS controls you use every day. Apple Must’s Jonny Evans offers over a dozen of the best Option key tricks you may not have used before. Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon (top) andMagic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac…

Mac users: For crying out loud, use the Option key!

Jonny Evans for Apple Must:

Never ever ignore the Option (⌥) Alt key button on your Mac.

It has the power to save your day.

What follows are just a few essentials from among all the many useful tricks you can unlock with this button.

MacDailyNews Take: When in doubt, or when adventurous, hold down that Option keyn on your Mac keyboard and click around for a whole new world of possibilities!

Apple’s Photos app has a hidden feature for tweaking adjustments even more

“I’ve been writing about Apple’s Photos app a lot lately, because I’ve decided to master this app rather than spending my time learning how to use Photoshop and Lightroom,” Kirk McElhearn writes for Kirkville. “Sure, those Adobe apps are powerful, but you can do a lot with Photos, and I’d rather spend my time taking pictures than tweaking them with complicated workflows and settings.”

Today I was working with the Mac mini in office. I was trying to reinstall the OS. But i could not find the option key in my non-mac keyboard.

What I did was i logged in to my mac with the Logitech windows keyboard attached. I went to show the Keyboard viewer and slowly checking the visual feed back that i get from the keys that I press.

I just found a character I can’t type on a Mac! I feel ridiculous even saying that, as I’m sure many longtime Mac users can understand.

Jenn just came across some dude’s name in a paper she’s working on, and it requires a diacritical accent, the caron over the letter s, like this: š. I’ve found various references online that say Option-V will work just like Option-E and the rest, but it just does a normal square root symbol.

As far as I can tell this is brand new in Lion, the first version of OS X that allowed resizing windows from any side.