Mac Tools: 100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating Symbols

As a designer, I am often need to use all sorts of wacky text symbols whilst working on projects. And though I and many others have been in the biz for some time, the honest to god truth is I am yet to meet a designer that actually knows all of them off the top of their head (if you happen to be a designer that does, I tip my hat to you, in all your compulsively-anal craziness). Nary a month goes by in the shop when one of us isn't shouting to another something along the lines of, "WHAT THE HECK IS THE SHORTCUT TO A DOUBLE-DAGGER!?!?!"

Suffice to say, for the designer that doesn't want to memorize about 80+ key-commands, this site is a godsend:

UsingMac.com: 100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating Symbols

Not only does this site give the commands to a majority of common shortcuts, but it's also rather easy on the eyes. And as a Mac Nerd, you can imagine my delight when I discovered there was a key command to create the apple logo:



The fact that's it's completely and utterly useless just makes it that much better.

Macs Representin'

Ok, so the entire “Make an image out of a billion tiny images” is totally 1998, but what can I say, I still get a kick out of it. And admit it, you do too. Particularly when said image is made entirely of Mac Products, and representing none other than the Mac Daddy himself, Steve “The Mac Book Air Was a Good Idea” Jobs:



I heard that Jobs gives out Nanos like light-up keychains. I’m gonna frame this puppy and hang it in my cube, right next to the Dalai Lama and Dr. Who. So cool…

(Snatched from The Scrabbled)