I’ve recently got hold of a Plantronics Voyager Legend bluetooth headset so that I can wander round the home office a little more when on my (never ending) conference calls.
It all seems to work nicely, except that Skype doesn’t really “see” it properly so I need to manually switch Audio sources at the OS level when I want to use it with Skype. This initially felt like a real faff; open System Preferences, open Sound, set the Output and then set the Input.
This morning I was playing around and noticed that if I hold the Option key down while clicking the Sound option in the menu bar I see the different sound sources and can change them without having to go via Settings.
It’s nice to find new tricks in an OS I’ve been using for decade.
The Option Key makes additional options appear in a variety of places. Finder’s "File" and "Go" come to mind along with the wireless icon in the menu bar. That shows signal strength and stuff. Also one I’ve used on occasion is if you are in the display preferences, and you hold down option BEFORE clicking on scaled, it’ll give you many more resolution options to choose from then if you don’t hold Option down.
Lots of tricks out there.
I’ve only been using a Mac for about 4 days now and I’m already off to the advanced tips 🙂 This is very useful, thanks!