I’m sure most Mac users know Command-C means copy and Command-V means paste, but there’s a host of other useful shortcuts that make a Mac user’s life much easier. I’ve assembled this short collection to illustrate this truth: Command-W Closes the active window you are currently in.
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Use Option-Command-W to close all currently active app windows. Further reading: Command-Y A lot of people use QuickLook to preview items they're looking for.
To use QuickLook, select an item in Finder, press the Space bar and a preview will appear. There’s also a keyboard shortcut — select an item (you can even use the Up and Down arrows to navigate to it in Finder view) and then press Command-Y. Command – Comma (,) This is one of the least-known keyboard commands on a Mac, but it’s super useful. It works like this: You are working in an app, and you want to open the application’s Preferences. You can navigate to the Menu bar if you like and scroll through to access the Preferences.
Or you can simply press Command-, (comma) to get to them in the fastest possible time. Command-M Press this combination to minimize the front app window to Dock, or press Command-Option-M to minimize all the windows belonging to the front app. Command and Option If you can’t see your desktop for all the open applications, just hold Command and Option down and click anywhere on your desktop. You may just want to get to all the open windows for a specific app, in which case hold down the same keys and click on any available window for that app.
Command-Shift-A Select this combination when in Finder/Desktop view to get to your Applications folder, or replace the A with U to open your Utilities folder in a new Finder window (or D for Desktop, H for Home or I to access iCloud Drive). Command-Space The combination that can change your life, Command-Space invokes Spotlight, just depress these keys and start typing your query. (I guess you know about Command-tab already?) Command-L The fastest way to make a search or navigate to a Website in Safari, Command-L instantly selects the address bar: start typing your query, and select the appropriate choice using the up/down arrows on the keyboard. Command-Tab Open application switcher, keeping Command pressed, use Tab to navigate to the app you hope to use.
Command-Option-D Show or hide the Dock from within most apps. Fn-left arrow (or right arrow) Jump directly to the top or bottom of a web page using the Function key and the right (to the bottom of the page) or left (to the top of the page) arrows on the keyboard. You can achieve a similar result using Command-Up or Command-Down.
A third way is to use Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab. Command-left/right arrows Hit Command and the left arrow to go back a page in the browser window. Hit Command right to go forward again. Tab nav Navigate between multiple tabs using the Command-Shift- or Command-Shift- characters. Command-Shift- The easiest way to see all your open tabs in one Safari window. Option-Shift-Volume Press Option-Shift and volume up/down to increase or decrease the volume on your Mac in small increments.
You can also use Option-Shift to change display brightness in small amounts. Fn twice Press the function (fn) key twice to launch Dictation on your Mac, start speaking, and press fn once you’ve finished. Here are some other ideas on.
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Option-File In Safari, pressing the Option key while selecting the File menu lets you access the ‘Close all other Tabs’ command. Try the other Safari menu items with Option depressed to find other commands you. Option-Brightness Up (or down) Use this command to quickly launch Displays preferences. Or press Option with the Mission Control or Volume (up/down) buttons to access preferences for Mission Control and Sounds. Command – Backtick ` This is one of the least well-known keyboard commands on a Mac, but it’s super useful. Use this combination to move between open windows in your currently active app.
It's so useful you'll wonder why you hadn't used it before. Touch Bar tip No. 1 If you use a MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar, you can press Shift-Command-6 to grab an image of what is on your Touch Bar. Want to grab an image to place into the document you're typing in? Just tap Control-Shift-Command-6 and the picture will be saved to your Clipboard for pasting it in.
Touch Bar tip No. 2 This MacBook Pro Touch Bar tip is particularly useful if you find that you often accidentally tap the Siri button: You can change where that button is located so you're less likely to tap it by accident. Open Keyboard Preferences and choose Customize Control Strip. Look at the Touch Bar, and you’ll see the icons are slightly agitated. Move your cursor to the bottom of your screen and keep moving (as if you're moving it off the screen); you should see one of the items in your Touch bar highlighted. Now move your cursor to highlight the Siri button and then drag and drop that button a space or two to the left.
(This is also an excellent way to become familiar with how you can edit other items in your Touch Bar.) Touch Bar tip No. 3 Do you use the function keys regularly in some apps? You can get to them, of course, by pressing the ‘fn’ character. But it's also possible to set up the Touch Bar so it always shows the function keys in those apps.
To do this, open Keyboard System Preferences, select Function Keys, and tap +. You can then select the app(s). Don’t worry if you want to use a regular Control Strip command when you're using one of the apps — just press Fn to get back to that view. Safari tips There are lots of keyboard tips for the Safari browser:. Command + I: Open new message with content of a page. Command + Shift + I: Open new message containing only the URL of a page.
Spacebar: To move your window down one screen. Shift+Spacebar: To move your window up one screen.
Durable modeling kinesis freestyle2 ergonomic keyboard w vip3. Command + Y: Open/close the History window. Command + Shift + T This web browser tip can sometimes be a lifesaver.
Command + Shift + T will open your last closed tab, which can be a lifesaver if you are researching something and close a window without saving the URL. You can also take a look at Apple’s own extensive collection of for more great ideas. If you use social media and happen to be a Google+ user, why not join and join the conversation as we pursue the spirit of the New Model Apple? Or in comments below and let me know. I'd like it if you chose to follow me on Twitter so I can let you know when fresh items are published here first on Computerworld.
Share this story. Press clover-space on a Mac (aka apple-space or command-space to Apple users) and you get a search box slap bang in the middle of the screen; type things into it and it'll show you all the things it can find that match. On Windows, you can do the same kind of thing—hit the Windows key and then start typing—but the results are shown in the bottom left of your screen, in the Start menu or Cortana pane.
The latest insider build of Windows, build 17040 from last week, has a secret new search interface that looks a lot more Mac-like. Discovered by Italian blog, and the search box appears in the middle of the screen. The registry key calls it 'ImmersiveSearch'—hit the dedicated key, and it shows a simple search box and results. This solution looks and feels a lot like Spotlight on macOS. The basic Windows type-to-search interface and experience hasn't changed much since its introduction in Windows Vista. For me, at least, it transformed how I used Windows, and type-to-search is how I've launched most programs, most of the time, for the last decade.
The new interface offers much more room for results, and those results can be far more detailed. So while the new interface has some rough edges, it looks like a solid improvement. As for Cortana, she's not going away.
There are reports instead that she's going to be switching away from her current search-like interface to a more launched from the notification area. This will make her more similar to Google Assistant.
By. 1:00 pm, April 16, 2018. No, not this kind of spotlight. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you use Spotlight to find stuff on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be familiar with the mess of results you get when you search. Maybe you’re searching for a note or an email about that really important thing, only the actual results you want are buried under a heap of nonsense from twitter, from YouTube, from all the Ebay classifieds you’ve viewed, and so on. Advertisement The good news is, you can trim these results, eliminating the noise you don’t need.
The even better news is that recent versions of iOS do this is a much more elegant way. How did Spotlight get so cluttered?
A properly-set-up Spotlight only shows you what you’re looking for. Photo: Cult of Mac The secret to (swipe down from the middle of the home screen to start) is to eliminate the competition. Ever since iOS 9, Spotlight has been able to search inside apps, which is a fantastic feature: You can search everything on your iDevice, all from the Spotlight search box, and open the result directly in its host app. This could be tasks in a todo app, or a document in Ulysses. But now pretty much any app makes its contents available to Spotlight, even apps whose contents you never want to search on.
Take a look in Settings Siri & Search, then scroll down to see just how many of your apps can potentially clutter up the search results. I have a ton of music effects apps, for instance, none of which I would ever want to show results in Spotlight. Remove apps from Spotlight results In this settings screen, you can tap an app icon, and then disable its Spotlight index. Just uncheck the Search & Siri Suggestions box and that app’s documents will no longer appear in Spotlight results.
In older versions of iOS, this switch also stopped app from showing up in Spotlight entirely. Many people use Spotlight as an app launcher, typing the first few letters of the app’s name, and then tapping its icon to launch it from the search results. It’s a fantastic trick for keeping a tidy iPhone or iPad when you have hundreds of apps.
Just dump those lesser-used apps in folder, and use search to launch them when you need them. It’s fast, and reliable. The new Show App options dioes exactly that. Photo: Cult of Mac Previously, though, Spotlight was an all-or-nothing option. If you stopped an app listing its contents in Spotlight, the app wouldn’t show up in search, either.
Now, though, when you disable Search & Siri Suggestions, a new switch appears: Show App. This option lets the app itself keeping showing up in Spotlight search results, while its documents don’t. You can enable it for, say, a YouTube app so that it doesn’t offer you results from your embarrassing viewing history, but you can still quickly launch the app itself.
Small but handy tweaks This change to the settings, which has been added sometime since iOS 11 as far as I can remember (get in touch if you know exactly when, or if I just misused it and the option has always been there), is tiny, but makes a massive difference to “power” users. I often work with a keyboard hooked up to my iPad, and I use Spotlight all the time, mostly as an app launcher (it makes a decent alternative to Launchbar on the Mac in this capacity). This tweak makes Spotlight so much better, I recommend it for anyone who is even an occasional Spotlight users. Currently I’m going through this list and disabling all the apps I don’t need. It’s going to take a while though. I’m doing it alphabetically during coffee breaks, and I’m only up to “B.”.
I got on the phone with Apple Tech Support and they gave me a solution that worked immediately. Somehow, Spotlight indexing got disabled on my Macbook. To verify this, they had me type the following in Terminal: mdutil -s / The result of which showed that the Spotlight Server was disabled. Then, they had me do the following commands in Terminal: sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist sudo mdutil -i off / sudo mdutil -E / rbelau$ sudo mdutil -i on / Now Spotlight is enabled and is currently indexing.
If you click on Spotlight and search for anything, you can see a progress bar that says Indexing. Also, if you open Activity Monitor, a process called MDS (MetaData Server) is taking up a bunch of CPU time. I started seeing some search results in mail after about 15 min.
Mute Siri Siri doesn't have to speak her responses aloud—she can silently display them on screen. If you'd prefer this option, click the Apple menu, followed by System Preferences and Siri. Finally, next to the Voice Feedback heading, tick Off.
From the same dialog box, you can tweak other aspects of Siri: Try changing the voice, and if you prefer a less cluttered interface, experiment with hiding the icon from the menu bar. Simplify your view of the internet The Safari web browser can hide ads and other distractions to let you focus on the a given page's text. To permanently enable this minimal-view Reader Mode, start by opening the browser. Next, click the Safari menu (in the bar at the top of the screen) and choose Preferences. From this window, open the Reader tab, find the When visiting other websites drop-down list, and select On. Share files If you have an account, you can easily share your files with your contacts from within macOS.
Open Finder and select the file you want. At the top of that Finder window, click the Share button—it looks like an arrow pointing out of a box—and pick Add People. Then you can use the next dialog box to choose your sharing method, the file's recipients, and whether they will be able to make changes to it.
Free up hard drive space If you're running low on hard drive space, macOS can help. At the top of the screen, click the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. In the window that appears, open the Storage tab and click Manage. To automatically remove cloud-based files that don't require local storage—such as iTunes TV shows, iTunes movies, and email attachments—select Optimize.
If you prefer manual control, pick Review Files to check out the largest files on your system and decide whether or not to erase them. Clean up System Preferences The System Preferences application acts as a control panel for all of your Mac's settings, and in that capacity, it includes dozens of sub-sections. However, if you rarely use some of these items, you can hide them. Open System Preferences, either by launching the application or by clicking the Apple menu at the top of the screen and selecting System Preferences. From the bar at the top of the screen, choose View and click Customize to bring up a list of shortcuts. Now you can untick the menus you don't need to access, or restore items you'd prefer to see in the application's main view. Flip the scroll direction By default, if you move two fingers down the trackpad of an Apple laptop, your view travels down the open document or website.
However, you can flip these directions so that moving your fingers down makes the view move up. Open System Preferences and go to the Trackpad menu. Under the Scroll & Zoom heading, tick the box marked Scroll direction: Natural. Check settings more quickly Since you've been accessing many of these options through System Preferences, launching the application more easily will speed up your setting-adjusting process. So go ahead and keep it in the Dock: Open System Preferences, click and hold on its icon in the Dock, and select Options followed by Keep in Dock. Now you can quickly launch the application by clicking the icon, or—before you even open the app—holding on the icon to bring up a list of its various settings screens.
Combine app windows into tabs Just as you open multiple tabs in a browser, the latest versions of macOS let you arrange the windows of other apps the same way. This only works for certain programs, including all of the Apple-developed applications, such as.
In any app that supports tabs, choose Window from the bar at the top of the page. Then click Merge All Windows to bring several windows together in a series of tabs. Change Finder's appearance When you're browsing through your files in Finder, you don't have to accept the default view. Open a new window, head to the View menu at the top of the page, and choose Show View Options.
The next dialog box lets you set icon size, grid spacing, text label size and positioning, and more. Once you decide on these new settings, macOS will apply them to any Finder windows you open in future. Permanently delete files Deleted items don't simply disappear from your computer—instead, they sit in the Trash folder until you empty it. If you're tired of your Trash filling up or you're worried about someone recovering one of your deleted documents, you can completely erase a file. In Finder, select the files you want to permanently delete.
Then hold down the Option key, open the File menu, and click Delete Immediately followed by Delete. The item will skips the Trash entirely and disappear. Add events from emails When someone emails you about a party, macOS can automatically add that event to your calendar. To enable this feature, open the Mail app and click Mail in the bar on the top of the screen.
Choose Preferences, and under the General tab, turn on the Add invitations to Calendar automatically option. Now, emails with times and dates in them will receive a Calendar banner across the top, which asks if you want to add the event to your schedule.
Automatically launch programs Every time macOS starts up, it can automatically launch certain programs. While this is convenient, if too many applications take advantage, they can damage the system's overall performance. To check on the auto-start-up apps, and edit the list, open System Preferences and choose Users & Groups. Under the Login Items heading, you can remove apps with the minus button or add new apps with the plus button. Sync folders to the cloud As cloud-storage app iCloud matures, Apple has given it new abilities—like syncing desktop folders to the web (if you have the ). Open System Preferences and go to iCloud. From this menu, look next to iCloud Drive to find Options, where you can pick which folders and apps you want to sync automatically to your cloud storage account.
Stop autoplaying content can make the internet a noisy place. To stop them, open Apple's web browser, click Safari from the bar at the top of the page, click Preferences, and head to the Websites tab. Here, you can stop audio and videos from playing automatically in the future, or block videos that have sound attached. Fine-tune the brightness To adjust the brightness of your Mac's screen, you can hit the shortcut buttons on the keyboard. However, this brings the brightness up or down in discrete steps. To fine-tune it in smaller increments, hold the Shift and Option keys while tapping the brightness buttons.
You can also toy with the light level in the Display menu of System Preferences 16. Pick your favorite Wi-Fi networks When you connect to a Wi-Fi network, macOS remembers it so you can join it more easily in the future.
However, when you rely on a laptop, you can amass a lengthy list of saved networks, which makes it more difficult to find the one you need. Instead, tweak the settings to push your favorite networks to the top of the pile and forget the ones you'll never visit again. In System Preferences, click Network and then choose Advanced to edit the list of networks. Unlock a Mac with an Apple Watch If you own an Apple Watch, you can use your wearable to access your Mac: When you're wearing the watch, your password-protected computer will let you launch the system while bypassing the log-in screen. Put on and unlock the. Then turn to your computer, open System Preferences, and choose Security & Privacy. Under General, tick the box labeled Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac.
The watch should buzz to confirm the change, and next time you turn on the computer, you won't have to enter your password. Choose where Spotlight searches The Spotlight search tool, which you launch with Cmd+Space, lets you find anything on your Mac. But sometimes its search parameters are so broad that you have trouble picking out the object of your search. To limit its breadth a bit, open System Preferences and pick Spotlight followed by Search Results. Untick any of the less relevant categories, like Presentations or Spreadsheets, that you want Spotlight to leave out of its search results. Turn screen corners into shortcuts By hovering your cursor over different corners of the screen, you can launch actions like showing the desktop, starting a screensaver, putting the display to sleep, or opening Mission Control (which provides a view of all your open windows).
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But first, you have to set up these shortcuts. Open System Preferences, choose Desktop & Screen Saver, go to the Screen Saver tab, and click Hot Corners.
Now you can decide which function to associate with which corner. Save battery power On a laptop like the MacBook, one of the biggest drains on the battery is the display. To save juice, you can make the computer go to sleep quickly after a period of inactivity, or tell the screen to dim slightly when running on battery power.
Open System Preferences and go to Energy Saver to toy with these settings and make your battery last longer. Hide your location Services like maps and weather need to access your location to help you navigate and prepare you for a rainy day. But they're not the only apps that can see where you are. To find out which ones have access to this information—and block the ones you don't trust with your location—open System Preferences and go to Security & Privacy. Roland egx 350 drivers for machine de gravure.
In this menu, open Privacy and choose Location Services to see a list of apps. Then untick the boxes for any programs you don't want to track you. Clean up your message history By default, your instant messages stick around on macOS forever, which is handy if you have a poor memory, but wastes disk space and could compromise your security. Microsoft office 2016 mac download.
To have Apple automatically trim your message history, open the Messages app, click Messages on the bar at the top of the screen, and select Preferences. Under the General tab, open the Keep messages drop-down menu to limit the size of your archive. You can save the past 30 days of messages, or keep your conversations for a year. Silence notifications If you leave your computer running while you work, notifications can be distracting. So tell macOS to set 'do not disturb' times when it will mute these alerts. Open System Preferences, click Notifications, and head to the Do Not Disturb tab.
Here, you can specify the hours when you don't want to see any notifications. You can also disable alerts during those times when the display is off or being mirrored to another screen. Prevent others from installing apps Even if you share a computer with others, you might not want them installing software on it. With the App Store open, go to the bar at the top of the screen and choose App Store followed by Preferences. Under the Password Settings heading, set the two drop-down menus to Always Require and Require Password, respectively. Now nobody will be able to install new apps without entering your password.
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