Mac Short Key

Mac OS X offers a glorious assortment of predefined keystrokes for jumping to the most important locations on your Mac: your Home folder, the Applications folder, the Utilities folder, the Computer window, your iDisk, the Network window, and so on.

Better yet, the keystrokes are incredibly simple to memorize: Just press Shift- and the first letter of the location you want. Shift--H opens your Home folder, Shift--A opens the Applications folder, and so on. You learn one, you've learned 'em all.

The point here is that Shift-, in Tiger, means places.

The other system-wide key combo, Option-, means functions. For example, Option--D hides or shows the Dock, Option--H is the Hide Others command, Option--+ magnifies the screen (if you've turned on this feature), Option--Esc brings up the Force Quit dialog box, and so on. Consistency is always nice.