2010-12-13
Apple Settings Pro Tips
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If you’ve ever been annoyed at the large gaps between volume settings on a Mac, help is at hand:
If your keyboard has volume keys, [to] change your volume by smaller increments, hold down the Shift and Option keys as you press [them].
This trick also works for brightness. Meanwhile, shift alone also does something: you can temporarily toggle the “Play feedback when volume is changed” setting.
One thing I haven’t found documentation for (although I’ve not looked particularly hard for it) is that holding option with a function key brings up its preference pane. For example, option + brightness opens Keyboard, while option + volume opens Sound and option + Exposé opens, well, Exposé.
[Edit] I’m told this works on 10.5 as well, while option + key works back to 10.3.
