Adjust visible hours on the fly in iCal
macOSXHints posts a useful iCal tip 
that was news to me.
If you hold down the Option key while scrolling your mouse wheel up and down, it “zooms” your iCal screen in and out, adjusting the number of visible hours in the current view on the fly.
No more time-consuming trips to iCal’s Preferences for me. No more getting ambushed by some evening commitment I can’t see and have forgotten about.
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Tags: iCal, Productivity, tip, visible hours
March 8th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Wow! Another elegant solution that remains completely hidden from the vast majority of users. I’ve been using iCal since day one (July 16?), and I’m only learning about this trick now. Why do so many fabulous features of Apple products remain hidden for all but the most devoted?
March 8th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Hmmm… Good question.
Perhaps they hide the features so well in order that their discovery may be all the sweeter — a kind of perverse strategy for enriching Mac users’ lives?
Maybe the documentation is just crap.
March 12th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
[resubmitting lost-in-transition comment at new site]
Nice tip!
I’ve often questioned that, even a few times in feedback to MacOSXHints.
After five years of using OS X I still haven’t discovered any satisfying one-stop collection of “hidden†keyboard/mouse shortcuts. I’ve had some thoughts of creating/publishing that elusive list, given enough contributions to make it worthwhile beyond what I could cobble together (e.g. from experience and sites like MacOSXHints).
Before getting overambitiously inspired I’m still wondering:
1) Does such a list already exist, stuck in my blind spot?
2) If I don’t manage to find one is it worth the effort trying to create one?
3) Should I just forget about 1 & 2, do it, and see if it evolves into something of interest/value?
Anyway, that’s enough off-topic hijacking of this space.
[my iMac G5 started misbehaving last night (inexplicable shutdowns, even during attempts to run AHT) so nothing will come of this at least until after it's been repaired, again]