iTunes will shoot the volume all the way up when pressing shift-Up Arrow. Useful for those times when a good song is on, and you want everybody to know about it. Similarly, shift-down arrow shuts iTunes up.
Strangely, option+command+up arrow mutes the volume as well, although the command is mapped to option+command+down arrow in the "Controls" menu.
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