Mac keyboards are great when listening to music or watching a movie, since you can control what’s playing without going back into iTunes or QuickTime Player. However, when you’re using an app like Photoshop that uses the F7, F8, and F9 as shortcuts, it gets pretty annoying to have to hold down the Fn key. Why can’t you just hit the back, play/pause, and skip buttons alone?
You can easily revert those media/system keys to regular function keys in Mac OS X (go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard, and check “Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys”), but what if you want to… more
Sig Nordal 