C : Forces most Macs to boot from the CD-Rom drive instead of the internal hard drive. Only works with Apple ROM drives and with bootable CD discs.

D : Forces the first internal hard drive to be the startup disk.

N : Netboot (New World ROM machines only) – Looks for BOOTP or TFTP Server on the network to boot from.

R : Forces PowerBooks to reset their screen to default size (helpful if you’ve been hooked up to an external montior or projector!)

T : Target Disk Mode (FireWire) – Puts machines with built-in FireWire into target Disk mode so a system attached with a FireWire cable will have that device show up as a hard drive on their system. Very useful for PowerBooks!

Mouse Button Held Down : Ejects any mounted removable media.

Shift : Disables all extensions (Mac OS 7-9), or disables Login items when using Mac OS X 10.1.3 or later. Also works when booting Classic mode up just like you were using the OS natively.

Option : When using an Open Firmware “New World ROM” capable system, the System Picker will appear and query all mounted devices for bootable systems, returning a list of drives & what OS they have on them. On “Old World” systems the machine will simply boot into it’s default OS without any Finder windows open.

Space bar : Brings up Apple’s Extension Manager (or Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher, if installed) up at startup to allow you to modify your extension set.

Command-V : Boots Mac OS X into “Verbose Mode”, reporting every console message generated during startup. Really shows what’s going on behind the scenes with your machine on startup!

Command-S : Boots Mac OS X into “Single User Mode” – helpful to fix problems with Mac OS X, if necessary.

Command-Option : Rebuilds the Desktop (Mac OS 7-9).

Command-Option-P-R : Erases PRAM if held down immediately after startup tone. Your machine will chime when it’s erased the PRAM, most people will hold this combination for a total of 3 chimes to really flush the PRAM out.

Command-Option-N-V : Erases NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM). Used with later Power Macintosh systems mostly.

Command-Option-O-F : Boots the machine into Open Firmware (New World ROM systems only).

Command-Option-Shift-Delete : Forces your Mac to startup from its internal CD-ROM drive or an external hard drive. Very helpful if you have a 3rd party CD-ROM drive that is not an Apple ROM device.

Command-Option-Shift-Delete-#(where #= a SCSI DEVICE ID) : Boot from a specific SCSI device, if you have your 3rd party CD-ROM drive set to SCSI ID 3, you would press “3″ as the # in the combination.

And, the obscure ones :>) Older computers only, on some.

Command-Option-I : Forces the Mac to read the disc as an ISO-9000 formatted disk.

Command : Boots with Virtual Memory turned off.

Command-Option-T-V : Forces Quadra AV machines to use TV as a monitor.

Command-Option-X-O : Forces the Mac Classic to boot from ROM.

Command-Option-A-V : Forces an AV monitor to be recognized correctly.

2. Move dock icon to trash

3. hd>users>your username>library>preferences>com.google.Chrome.plist to trash

4.   hd>users>your username>library>caches>google>chrome folder

via How to uninstall Chrome in MAC? – Google Groups.

Heres some verizon specific codes that may help you if you if you need to check something

#832 – test call

#PMT 768 – make a payment

#BAL 225 – check current balance and last payment

#MIN 646 – check minute usage

#DATA 3282 – check txt and pic message usage

611 – customer service

511 – gives weather and traffic in some areas

*228 – update your Perfered Roamers List or update the software on your Phone CDMA phones only

*228 80 – force update, ignore fails

*228 99 – force seconday tower update

*228 00 – original tower update

defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true

via Facebook RSS feed – Tutorial.

Same idea as the previous post with finding Twitter ID for feeds. This will allow you to setup your Facebook feed.

Great little tool to find your twitter ID. This can be used when adding feed tickers to wordpress sites.

This is a serious process…so worth saving.

Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database in the Cloud – YouTube.

The possibility of adding Solar power to our home has always been a fascination.  However, living in Maine limits the amount of sunlight we receive per day.  Perhaps this would be the solution?

Scientists Develop Affordable Solar Panels That Work In The Dark 

via iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.