Oh that Shift key. So normal, so overlooked, so simple and yet so magical. TUAW reader Karan recently dropped us a note, reminding us about its slow-speed enchantment. "I don't think a lot of Mac users know this," she wrote, "but the Shift key has a very cool (although obviously just for extra eye-candy) feature on the Mac."
When depressed, the Shift key will slow down certain on-screen animations, giving an extra long visual boost to window transitions. For example, you can shift in the following scenarios:
while minimizing an application window to the Dock
while clicking the Full Screen button in QuickTime X (or while using a pinch to zoom to full screen)
while sliding four fingers down to invoke Exposé
while sliding those same four fingers up
