Computer training - 11 year old style

After finally getting around to googling how to "show desktop" on the ibook that I received fairly recently (I'm really a Linux man at heart), I showed my 11 year old son. "Look what happens when you press F11" I said to him. "Yeah - I knew that" he replied, unimpressed. I asked him how he had found this out and he said "at school we just pressed all the keys to see what they did." Obvious really!

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  1. Craig11 November 2006 at 20:40

    You've always known your son was far better than you at everything!

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  2. David Gilmour12 November 2006 at 00:15

    Your son's got the right idea. I've always found that kind of curiousity a rich source of useful knowledge. It was amazing what you found with a product from pre-PC days called the Digital Equipment All-In-1 office system. Odd key combinations would bring up all sorts of useful stuff on screen, providing a useful peek behind the scenes. The real keyboard whizzes could at one time, it was rumoured, crash the server by creative use of unusual terminal key sequences. Happy days!

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  3. john14 November 2006 at 20:47

    F9 thru 12 are all nice.
    I especially like f11 to show the desktop grab a file let the key go and drop it in the current applications window.
    You will probably like the next rev of the mac os:
    Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

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