[jason@sun ~]$: The Solaris junkie finds a home

I'm a big fan of keyboard shortcuts.  If I can do something without having to use my mouse or trackpad, I'm happy.

The Apple support pages have a pretty comprehensive list of default keyboard shortcuts.  You can find it at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343.

Also, my brother turned me onto auto-hiding the Dock.  This is great on a laptop where every pixel of real estate counts.  And if you're using Mac OS X Leopard, Spotlight is so effective that I typically use that to open an application -- or even just to change focus!  Just type ⌘-Space and type the first few characters of the app that you're looking for.  This doesn't work for Finder, but you can always get to it with ⌘-Tab.

I had to look all over to find the unicode for ⌘ -- it's ⌘ if anyone's interested.  As it turns out, Wikipedia has a whole article about the ⌘ key.