I saw a good tip on TUAW today that might be useful for some of you. There are often times when you need to boot up your mac a little differently than just using the power button. Say you want to boot directly from a CD or connect two macs to each other via firewire or possibly even safe mode because your machine might have been acting a little crazy. Well, if you didn’t know before, here is how you boot up your machine several different ways.

Boot from the optical disk drive: while your computer is starting up hold down the C key.

Transfer Mode: Hold down T while your computer is booting up and that will will the mac into FireWire Target Disk Mode which allows another mac to access any files as if it were an external drive.

Safe Mode: Hold down shift during start up and you’ll be in Safe Mode to check out your computer should it have been acting up!

I use Transfer Mode a lot when I’m transitioning to a new machine or swapping tons of information like music between two computers. Booting from the CD is nice when you want to install a new OS like Leopard.

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