OK, as I've said before that I was in love with my Macbook Pro, but it seems the more I discover the more I like it.

Yesterday I wanted to take a screenshot, but couldn't find the print screen button, so I do a Google. I then find out I have several options! I can either have the whole lot (Cmd + Shift + 3) or either select an area with Cmd + Shift + 4 or have an app. window with Cmd + Shift + 4, press space and click on the app. window. It then gets deposited neatly on my desktop. No fannying about with Paint etc. Fabulous.

*And to be fair to other OSes, Linux also implements similar methods of screen-grabbing.

You should also get the shadow with transparency in it too - very handy.

That's so cool! Just given it a try! Works a charm!

Not at my Mac just now, but like Linux has an app to screenshop, I believe there is an app called something like "Image Capture" on OS X, should you want to use that....I've probably got the app name wrong, and can't remember where it is, but it's there

EDIT: /Applications/Utilities/Grab

It's funny how you forget that simple things like that can be a treat. I know this sounds like the usual fanboyism, but the more you use Apple's stuff the more you notice the attention to detail and they way the developers have obviously thought through how something might be used. It's a very user-centric view of computing that other OSes could do with emulating.

My favourite was how the original iBooks (the multicoloured ones) had a spanner built into the chassis that was the right size for the nuts and bolts used in the screen. It meant that anyone who needed to take the screen apart had the correct-sized spanner handy without having to go searching through their tool box at an awkward moment in the procedure.

Completely unnecessary but a very nice touch.

Where was that? I had one (A Graphite SE one), and didn’t find a spanner. I thought the handle was an excellent feature,

Some good keypresses listed here: http://howgoodisthat.wordpress.com/2008 ... -features/

It's the small details that make a platform nice to use.

I don't remember exactly, I only heard about it at a D&AD talk that Jonathon Ive gave many years back in London. He mentioned it and showed an iBook case to demonstrate where they had put it. It may have been at the base of the screen.

For more shortcut goodness, simply type “keyboard shortcuts” in the Help menu’s search box, which can itself be activated by a shortcut: shift-command-/. Works for many applications, including the Finder.