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Okay, you probably already know the ol’ Command-
Shift-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your
entire screen, and you may even know about 04.04.07 Searching Just Your Bookmarks
Command-Shift-4, which gives you a crosshair
cursor so you can choose which area of the screen 03.28.07 Preview: Hidden Sorting Options
you want to capture. But perhaps the coolest, most-
secret hidden capture shortcut is Control-
Command-Shift-3 (or 4), which, instead of creating 03.21.07 Dropping Text on the Dock for Fast Results
a file on your desktop, copies the capture into your
Clipboard memory, so you can paste it where you 03.14.07 Get to Your Top Hit Fast
want. (I use this to paste screen captures right into
Photoshop.)
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