Mac OS X Startup key sequences to keep with you…

January 3rd, 2007

Burned PowerbookThis is the list I should have had in Paris when my MacBook Pro freezed and didn’t respond to anything.

I have printed the whole list and am keeping it in my Tumi bag (Maybe I should even add it to my Top 10 list of things to bring with me?) with my cables and backup disk.

Maybe you should do the same: Mac OS X Startup key sequences

And the official Apple page with even more shotcuts: Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Robin Bos tipped me to the “My Mac Won’t Start PocketMod Edition“. It is a one page booklet that you can keep with you at all times. Great fun to make too! Maybe I should publish some of my blog posts in PocketMod format too!

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4 Responses to “Mac OS X Startup key sequences to keep with you…”

  1. Bram on January 4, 2007 1:12 pm (13:12)

    This christmas I almost accidentally burned my macbook pro too. I was transferring some photo’s (ofcourse with the damn cables and not with that fancy card reader thing i really would like to have) and when i was done with my photos i just closed the lit of my macbook and put its second skin, zipped that up and walked away assuming it would go on standby.

    When i later returned to show someone a website on my macbook it was hot like hell and it really had that new factory smell goin’. Instead of going into standby mode it just kept on playing a heavy (heavy as in processor power intensive) screensaver.

    Of course this is totally off-topic but it’s better to prevent stuff like that because you won’t get out of such a problem with a nifty key sequence.

  2. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on January 4, 2007 1:38 pm (13:38)

    I had the same problem with my MacBook Pro! Closed it assuming it would go to sleep and then retrieved it from my Tumi bag as hot as a freshly boiled egg. Since I have got my new MacBook Pro t crashed and restarted more than 15 times after I closed the lid and assumed it would sleep. After I opended the lid again I noticed it was restarting…

  3. Bram on January 4, 2007 1:57 pm (13:57)

    MacBook Pro’s can scare the shit out of you. I remember the first time i inserted a disc into the dvd drive and i almost crapped my pants hearing the sound of a disc being swallowed by my mac.

  4. Robin Bos on January 4, 2007 4:06 pm (16:06)

    This one is very handy as well: http://www.creativetechs.com/i.....start.html
    I really do like the PocketMod concept!

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