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I often find that I’d like finer control than OS X allows using the keyboard volume controls. I can see the reasoning behind using coarse volume control by default; in at least 90% of cases, users will want to drastically change their system volume using just a few taps. But what about when you want to get more fine-grained control? Normally, a single press of the volume keys will change by a whole “box” on the volume overlay. Using option-shift-volume, though, will get you 4 subdivisions within each box:

My reaction when someone first told me this was “WHOA!!!”, and most people I tell this to have the same reaction. Welcome to the world of fine-grained volume control on OS X.

(Note: I originally intended to include a whole bunch of little-known keyboard shortcuts in this post, but it’s getting late and I want to go to bed. I’ll just consider this post a copout so I don’t owe another $5 to Iron Blogger and bring y’all more keyboard shortcuts later.)