[zachs]

Ok, maybe this has been posted before, BUT:

When control (or right) clicking on an MP3 link in Safari, it
gives an option to Open in iTunes.

[Ozmodiar]

Hey, never notice that. Good find.

[zachs]

Also, right clicking an .mov file gives an option to Open in QT Player.

[Jerommeke]

yeah i saw that first one too... really... neat indeed

[Peter]

yes and apple key and clicking on the title of a website brings a menu of all the related websites

[zadak]

Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
yes and apple key and clicking on the title of a website brings a menu of all the related websites

No? For me it gives the history for that window.

[pdot]

I have yet to try it in Safari, but in other browsers, if you right click on a Real Player vid, you get the option to open it up in Real Player. I think the same option exist for WMP.

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
yes and apple key and clicking on the title of a website brings a menu of all the related websites

"apple key"? I haven't heard it called that it ages...its the "command" key

[clod]

Originally posted by Silky Voice of The Gorn:
"apple key"? I haven't heard it called that it ages...its the "command" key

When was it called the Apple key? The 80s? I've been calling it command since I started using Macs in the mid 90s.

[jasong]

Open Apple - Control - Reset.

Ahh, the good old Apple ][ days . . .

-- Jason

PS The Command clicking on the title bar gives you a breadcrumb path leading back up to the top of the site you are on. It is sort of like the snapback feature only you can control the steps.

[AKcrab]

And the key still has an apple on it, not a hint of "command" anywhere.

[BuonRotto]

Ah, yes, the good ol' days of "open apple" and "closed apple" keys on the old Apple ][ models. I remember playing with Logos, The Oregaon Trail, and Where in the World is Carmen Santiago?

[Person Man]

Originally posted by BuonRotto:
Ah, yes, the good ol' days of "open apple" and "closed apple" keys on the old Apple ][ models. I remember playing with Logos, The Oregaon Trail, and Where in the World is Carmen Santiago?

Apple called it "Solid Apple"

[:XI:]

Originally posted by Person Man:
Apple called it "Solid Apple"

Microsoft wanted to call it 'Out of business Apple'

[greenG4]

I remember an open apple on my ][gs, but not a solid one...

[vas]

When helping out friends and colleagues, I often say "press open-apple..." It confuses the hell out of them! I usually have to follow with "oh, I mean command..."

Some habits die hard, I guess.

I also remember the training game Apple supplied with its early computers, where you had to press open apple or closed apple to get the fruit in the right basket. Am I dating myself here?

[NormPhillips]

Originally posted by AKcrab:
And the key still has an apple on it, not a hint of "command" anywhere.

Actually, the symbol next to the open apple symbol is a symbol for command.

[glowingcactus]

And I have also seen it called "flower" hence...

control-flower-power

to reboot a stuck machine. (hint: don't try it now! )
I now actually mentally remember it as "flower" just for rebooting but as "apple" for everything else.

[JLL]

Originally posted by NormPhillips:
Actually, the symbol next to the open apple symbol is a symbol for command.

No it's certainly not.

It's an old viking symbol, and in Scandinavia it's used to mark sites of historical interest on road signs.

In some Apple documentation it's referred to as the "interesting feature" key for this reason.

[poocat]

yeah.
it always confuses people when i tell them to press "open-apple".

but that's what it is, in my mind.
command?

that always makes me feel all windowized.

pc.

[funkboy]

I also call it open-apple, as does my family. We were raised on an Apple ][GS, darnit. This Apple is open, not closed.

[Greenland is for toy dogs]

On the subject of the Command/Apple key and Safari - why didn't Apple implement the "drag page" functionality in Internet Explorer? Or is it in there somewhere and I missed it?

IE even had this feature in OS9. You could hold down the command key in a browser window and use the mouse to "drag" the page up and down.

It was dead handy, that. Safari needs it, I think.

[Developer]

Originally posted by Greenland is for toy dogs:
It was dead handy, that. Safari needs it, I think.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

[The Evener]

Originally posted by JLL:
No it's certainly not.

It's an old viking symbol, and in Scandinavia it's used to mark sites of historical interest on road signs.

In some Apple documentation it's referred to as the "interesting feature" key for this reason.

Well, that info was only delayed 20 years getting to me. Suddenly the use of that symbol makes a whole lotta sense. Thanks for the clarification, JLL -- makes me glad I read these forums.

[morgan]

Found another cool feature...somebody sent me a photoshop file to my yahoo mail account, when i clicked it, it automatically opened the file in the browser window, showing all visible layers. Pretty cool...

Ah, open-apple, i miss that. I was pissed, my dad was cleaning out my closet a few years back and threw out my apple II+. He claimed he thought it didnt' work...bummer

[mh0ffmann]

Another historical fact... the original Macs had no Apples to be seen anywhere on their keyboards, just the command/flower/Scandinavian-interesting-feature sign. The Apple was introduced years later (can't remember which model... Mac SE?) for who knows what reason.

[ckohler]

I too call it the "Apple key" for several reasons. Most notibly, it has the dang Apple logo on it.

[sbjordal]

Anyone who's done Apple techsupport knows that saying Apple key makes your life a *lot* easier when you're dealing with morons on the other end of the phone

[Person Man]

Originally posted by greenG4:
I remember an open apple on my ][gs, but not a solid one...

When Apple introduced the IIgs, they moved the "solid apple" key next to open apple/command and renamed it "option." The IIgs was the first Apple II to have the "command symbol" on the keyboard from the Macintosh.

[Person Man]

Originally posted by mh0ffmann:
Another historical fact... the original Macs had no Apples to be seen anywhere on their keyboards, just the command/flower/Scandinavian-interesting-feature sign. The Apple was introduced years later (can't remember which model... Mac SE?) for who knows what reason.

The Apple was introduced on the command key when Apple switched to the Apple Desktop Bus system (ADB). ADB was also on the IIgs, which is why Apple put the "open apple" on the command key because "open apple" was an Apple II thing. It just stuck after that

Oh yes... Apple never called it the "][gs." It was IIgs.

APPLE ][ (this machine didn't have lowercase)
APPLE ][+ (neither did this one)
Apple //e (later IIe, on the "Platinum" version with the keypad)
Apple //c
Apple IIgs

The above is how each machine identified itself when you turned it on.

[sambeau]

I've always called it the Apple key. Apart from at University when they referred to it as the clover key..

[mrtew]

Looks like an apple key to me. I have no idea why anyone would call it a command key, other than to confuse it with the control key as 'control' and 'command' are not only similar in sound but in meaning. Why not call it the Apple key?

[GRAFF]

It's very common to call it the "pomme" key here. Pomme+C to copy, pomme+V to paste, etc. Although the Company is always called Apple!