Short Order Techout here there be geeks

Its Friday, August the 14th and this is the first of a series of weekly Follow Friday posts where I will give a few quick nods at the things I learned this week in the Tech World or thought worthy of a mention.  So, here goes nothing:

1. The Apple Caps Lock Key: You have to apply some pressure for it to activate, a quick tap wont turn it on.  This was designed so you can avoid taking your mild mannered blog post and turning it into an UNINTENTIONAL RANT…  Trivially brilliant.
2. Adjust your Macs volume the @TCHughes way.  Hold down Shift while you work the volume up and down keys and the accompanying bubble popping sound will be silenced.
3. This one will likely showcase that I am indeed still a Newb in many regards, but holding down CMD+SHIFT+A will open your Applications folder.
4. Techzilla Daily for 8/12/09 highlighted my favorite new feature, the quick Application close.  When using CMD+TAB to switch between Apps, you can let off the TAB key and hit Q (so thats CMD+Q) to close the App you have highlighted.  Very schnazzy.
5. Snow Leopard did not stealth ship, despite my best efforts at uncovering a global plot to bring happiness to the front door of millions.
6. @TCHughes pointed me to GDGT.com and cost me two good hours.  (Softcore Geeks need not follow link)
7. Now for a couple of App Mentions and we are outta here:
   1. The TWiT App is another brilliant find by @TCHughes this week.  Bring the TWiT.tv network to your iPhone with live streaming, chat room integration, and On-Demand play back of previous shows. Video quality of the streams is excellent.  Being a TWiT fan boy, this is probably my favorite new App at my favorite price, free. 
   2. Doom for iPhone drops from $9.99 to $2.99
   3. Star Defense for iPhone drops from $2.99 to $.99
   And thats all folks.  Thanks for checking out my first Follow Friday installment, see you next week.  If ever so inclined, feel free to leave the useful bits you picked up this week in the comments section or send them to @shortordertech on twitter or Friendfeed.  /Cheers!