If you're using your Mac with an external display and you
want to change which one of your displays is going to be
the primary display, you can do that very simply by going into
system preferences and navigating to displays.
Here you'll see your display orientation and across one of
those displays you can see a wipe out at the very top.
If you drag that white bar from the one display to your
secondary display, you've now change which display is going
to be your primary.
Now, if you like that tip, I've got nine more for you
in today's video.
So let's get started.
What is going on, everybody?
My name is Mike.
Welcome back to the Channel.
I'm very glad that you are back with me today because I
have ten tips.
They're going to make you more productive on your Mac.
I have some system preferences.
We're going to change some app recommendations for you as well
as some keyboard shortcuts.
So let's get into the second tip.
Now, our second tip is making sure that you have good hygiene
on your desktop.
In with screenshots, I'm going to show you a way to change the
default file format for all the screenshots that you take,
and also how to clean up your desktop so you don't have that
cluttered mess of screenshots there.
You can go right into terminal and type in this terminal
command showing right here on my screen and append JPG or
JPEG at the end of it.
And it's going to change the default file type from
PKG to JPEG.
Now if you don't like that and you want to change it back,
you just go ahead and type in that same terminal command and
put PNG at the end.
You'll be right back to where you started.
You don't know when you take a screenshot.
It does save that file as a PNG, which tend to be high
fidelity and going to be a larger file size.
This is going to save you about 75% on screenshots, so any
amount of storage that you can save is a good one.
Now here I'm going to open up my movies folder and here I
have a movie.
Well, if I click on Open, what does it do?
It opens up with that, the Apple TV app.
That's not what I want.
All right.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Open
with Animate, change the default, and I'm
going to change it to QuickTime.
But also I can even do it another way.
I'm going to click on Command II, which is going to
show the inspector window.
If I go down to the very bottom where it says open width,
I'm going to click on this window here.
I can change it to any app that I want to is here and then
click on Always Are Change All.
So every app that has this M for V file extension will
always open up with QuickTime.
Now this next tip that I have here is going to
be about navigation.
It's really going to show you how to be, you know,
super efficient on your Mac using just a few
different keyboard shortcuts.
So we're going to open up Finder.
And I do that by hitting option and open in my Finder window
and I have the finder with window open.
Now first thing is that if you want to bring any window in a
full screen, you're going to control command F and that
brings it into full screen in the same set of keys control
command F two, bringing out a full screen.
Now if you want to change from this folder, view to list,
view to column, view to gallery view, you hit command
and number one, number two, number three or number four to
change your view there.
Now what am I to do next is customize my sidebar.
A sidebar here I'm going to click on Finder, I'm going to
go to preferences and here I have hard disk disabled in
connected service disabled.
I don't want to see these on the desktop.
That's just to me is annoying.
If I open up a new finder window, I want that new
finder window to start in the movies folder because for me
that's where I'm working in the majority of time when I'm on my
computer and I want to open folders in new tabs,
oppose opening up a new windows.
So whether I hit command t to open up a new tab or command n
to open up a new window.
If I already have the app open, it's going to open up
in a new tab.
Now next I'm going to go to tags and I have tags disabled
because I don't ever use tags.
And if you use tags, let me know that I would love to know
how you use them because I'm try to be productive and
use them, but I just really never find a good way.
Now let's go to sidebar here.
In the sidebar, I turned off reason because I don't know why
that's ever turned on.
I never want to use or I never want to see reasons and I have
on my Mac turned off.
I showed these folders on my iCloud drive and I have these
locations shown here in the in the location site.
Now, if you want to copy everything down, you certainly
can go ahead.
And now if I go to the advanced tab, I'm going to turn
off show, I'll file name extensions.
I don't want to see the file extension.
If I want to, I can always click on a file and click
Command I to show the volume extension if I wanted to.
Otherwise I don't really need to see it.
I also have turned on keep folders on top in windows when
sorting my name and on desktop.
So what that means is if I have this unchecked, it sorts
everything that's in the folder alphabetically,
including the file, which is not the same opposed to having
the the file at the end of all the folders.
This to me is the most meaningful way to have this
information sorted for here.
Now, additionally, I have when performing a search, search the
current folder because any time that you're doing a search,
you're probably already in the folder or in one of the folders
that you need to have enabled for that search.
So I search the current folder I don't want to turn on and
search this Mac, because that to me is just useless.
It takes too much time.
Now a couple other things that I have turned on.
I go to view and I click on Show Path Bar and
show status bar.
That's the information here.
The Path Bar is what the path that you took to get to the
folder that you're in and the status bar is how much is what
is in the folder and how much storage is going to be
available on that.
Now, what you can easily do if you didn't want to navigate
between this folder and let's say we're going to go down a
couple levels here.
I'm going to go here and here.
And if I didn't want to go to the column view by hitting
Command three, I'm going to stay in Command one, and I'm
just going to actually click here along the bottom and go
back to movies.
So it's very easy to navigate once you turn on the path bar,
in my opinion, is probably the better way to navigate opposed
to clicking back and forth.
So now if you wanted to just close this one window, you can
hit command w that's going to close this window and you can
hit command W and then command w again to get rid
of those windows.
I haven't found a way to close all the windows in Finder,
but if you know one, let me know down the comments below.
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Now let's go on to the next tip.
I'm going to open up system preferences
and system preferences.
When you want to find something, it never seems
to be in the same place or you can't find it.
Now, I would like to do is I'd like to click on View and I
like to organize these alphabetically.
That's like to me as a game changer because it's in the
order that makes most sense for me.
But now let's just say that you aren't that person and it still
makes sense to you while you do it in categories.
Well, if you want to, you could then click on Customize and
here you see all these checkmarks appear next
to these apps.
Or maybe you never want to see Siri, maybe you never want
to see Energy Saver.
You can take off Time Machine and you can click Save.
Turn off customize and then that app is removed
from system preferences.
Now it's not deleted, it's just that you took that app out of
system preferences and you could still exit here from the
list if you wanted to, or you can go back to customize and
then it gives you the ability to add it back to that by
adding the checkmark.
So that's another nice thing I like to go ahead and do.
But while we're here in system preferences, let's take
a look at dock and menu bar.
Now you can get to the system preferences for doc and menu
bar a few different ways you can open up system preferences
by opening up Alfred or in spotlight here in the top left
hand corner and go to system preferences.
But you can also bring up the menu bar by right clicking here
on this line and then you can actually bring
up Doc's preferences.
Now for me, this might be controversial here, but my doc
in menu bar, I have a medium size.
I don't turn on my magnification,
magnification, magnification.
I like having it look in the bottom because it's going to
give me the most screen real estate.
I do have two displays and if I were not using it on like if I
was using on my MacBook, I would have it turned out on
the right hand side.
So it shows here, but I think it makes most sense
for most people.
And the bottom and I have at turn turning the zoom
turned on, I have automatically hide and show the menu bar on
desktop and in full screen disabled.
I go to control center here I have all these things are
actually turned on minus spotlight search.
I have that.
They should be turned off.
Is turned off as well.
Now, one thing if you wanted to do, let's just say you want
to have this in the menu bar and you want to have the MC
mode or let's say you want have your focus mode.
It's not currently there.
You can actually click on this and drag it to the menu bar and
it actually will place it there for you.
Now, speaking of the menu bar, I use an app called Bartender.
This is something that organizes the apps that are in
your menu bar.
And you can only show and you can limit what you show in
the menu bar.
I only have a couple of things showing in there.
This is one password, which is the password manager of choice
that I use clean shot acts, which I'm going to talk about
here next magnet, which I'll talk about in a few minutes.
And then the app used to monitor my system resources.
Now that we organize the dock in the menu bar,
let's talk about optionality.
Now, option is probably the most powerful key on the Mac,
because when you hit option along with like maybe
right click, it's going to give you more contextual options
than you had before.
For example, if you are working in an app like Safari because
it supports multiple windows, multiple tabs, and you want to
close the app because it's really just taking up real
estate or minimizing the dock.
But you don't want to lose your place and you definitely don't
want to create like a browser tab group.
Here is an option that is going to blow your mind.
You could open up an app and instead of hitting command
queue to quit the app, if you had command option queue you
the ability to keep the windows open.
This works on messages, it works on browsers, it works
on anything that supports multiple tabs or multiple
windows other than finder.
Wait, what?
Hold on a second here.
So yes.
Is going to open up safari with all the tab groups that
you have open.
All the different tabs are all the different browser windows
that you have open, just like it was never closed.
This is a game changer for me because I like to keep safari
open like in the background while I'm doing research and
not necessarily close it.
But now I don't have to worry about that because when I hit
option command queue to close Safari, it does retain
all the settings that I had and all the different browser
windows that I had open.
It's a game changer for me.
If I click on the say this folder here to my
template folder, if I hold on option than drag with this,
it creates a duplicate.
If I were to click on the finder window or go down to my
dock and look at any one of these apps that I have
opened by, right click on it.
The first option is quit.
While if I click option, I get the ability to force quit the
app and I want to click on Wi-Fi.
Well, here, if you click on Wi-Fi, there's obviously not
a lot of information.
It's not very helpful.
Well, if I command and click here, I get to see
everything about my network.
I could see the network, name, the IP address, the router,
IP address, whatever security I'm using, all of these
cool things, including the signal strength of my Wi-Fi
network and the noise floor.
So you can see a lot of things on here and it tells you a
lot of information.
But this also works as well.
With Bluetooth, I get all the information about my Bluetooth
peripherals that are not just connected, but there
have been connected.
So I get the device name the the role that it plays,
the Mac address, the battery level,
the firmware level, a whole bunch of stuff that
is not available.
And this also works actually in displays.
If you look here, there are typically five settings for the
display that you can choose from.
If you're running your display in scale,
that's assuming support scaled.
Well, if I click on default and then click on Option and click
on Scaled, I now get the whole breadth of minor options that
are available here so I can choose to run it in any
configuration or in any resolution that I want to
default and then click on Scaled with option held down.
Now this next app is I live in Dubai because I take so many
screenshots with my computer, not just because I like memes
or anything like that, but I use it for documentation when
I'm carrying documentation for work teams chat.
I just use it a lot.
And so it is a necessity for me.
Now the default or they built in screenshot app from Apple
Mac OS is good but clean shot which is a third party app is
like way better.
It's $29 for the app itself.
If you buy it through clean products, the developer
or I think you can get it and set up as well.
This is an app that allows you really to fine tune and dial in
the way that you take screenshots.
I can click on the screenshot I can annotated if I want to.
I can take the screenshot and then get a shareable link.
I can record my screen, I can use OCR.
The OCR thing is so crazy.
Let's, let's see this one in action because it's kind of
hard to believe.
I'm going to click on OCR and I'm going to do this
area right here.
And what it did was it took this file of the name in there
and if I do this, paste it, actually OCR is the text from
the screenshot, which is really amazing.
If you take screenshots or you do screen recordings, I would
definitely suggest checking it out because for me it's
a game changer.
Guys, thanks very much for watching my video and ten Mac
tips to make you more productive now.
I hope you enjoyed it.
If you have a tip that I didn't talk about, let me know down in
the comments below.
Maybe I can implement in my workflow.
I love being productive on my Mac and on my iPad as well.
And to that note, I will put some playlists right around
here somewhere to help you be more productive on your Mac.
I'll talk to the next one.