Learning My First Mac

Since I learned to use a computer without a mouse, I rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts for moving around. Probably the most helpful windows shortcut of all time is Alt+Tab, which if you're for some reason not familiar with enables you to switch easily through all of your open application windows. The first thing I tried of course after opening a few applications on my new Macbook was Command+Tab (hold the Command key first and hit the Tab key), which I expected to replace the familiar windows action. Unfortunately, Command+Tab is only half functional. On the Mac, Command+Tab does switch from application to application, but if you have multiple instances of the application open (say, two Safari windows), then Command+Tab only brings up the most recent window of that application that you were in. Instead, if you want to switch between various application windows, you first have to switch to the application window you want using Command+Tab, and then switch between application windows using Command+"~" (the ~ key). This action will let you switch across various browser windows or from your IM list to your IM windows, etc.