Mac Links and Shortcuts

The biggest problem of moving from PC to Mac is that all the shortcuts are different. Maybe it's just because I have been a PC user for so many years but, generally, I find the PC shortcuts to be much more intuitive. For example, to take a screen grab to the clipboard on a PC you hit "Print Screen", on a Mac you press Command+Control+Shift+3. (Obviously, duh!)

The flip-spide is that hunting down the basic shortcuts reveals a host of other shortcuts of related functions. I am not sure if PCs have so many or not but here are the screen grab options from MacRumors:

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
  
• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
  
• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
  
• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
  
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
  
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard
  

In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

• Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
  
• Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
  
• Option (Alt), to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

I've decided to start keeping track of the shortcuts (and links to lists of shortcuts) useful to me personally here. Although Google works pretty well, suggestions of good resources are welcome. Now, if only we could convince Apple and PC laptop manufacturers to come up with a universal standard for where to put the shift, function, control, alt and command keys, life for the shortcut-user would be good. (Of course, you would want the Apple command key where the windows control key lives.)