It's that time again; Mac power user or not, here are seven tips you've probably never heard of.
Number 1: Emoji are a pretty big deal.
However, I've seen way too many Mac users either Google the name of the Emoji they want to use,
copy and paste it into the document, which is simply bananas,
or, to use the character palette built into macOS,
you pull up the window, you find the emoji you want, you click the color,
and then it inserts. But neither of these honestly are very good methods.
However, there is a handy shortcut. If you hit ctrl+cmd+space,
this little character palette pops up that allows you to select any emoji you want. You can scroll through, click on the categories.
Or, there's even a search bar.
So I could type "sad", and all the emojis that could
possibly be affiliated with sadness pop up, I click it, and it inserts. Super easy!
Number 2: We've all been there.
You're typing a word and you are so hopelessly incorrect
that not even the system spellcheck knows what you're trying to say.
Well as long as you know how the word begins... so "onomatopoeia"
I know that begins with "o-n-o".
I can press F5 on my keyboard and a list of every available word
in the language I'm typing that begins with "ono" shows up in this list.
I can toggle down to the word I want,
press space, and it inserts automatically.
No spellcheck required.
Number 3: Believe it or not, Mac App Store only checks for system updates and application updates once per week.
Once every seven days!
That's a pretty long time. Maybe you want to check for updates more frequently or maybe less frequently.
I'm going to show you how.
All you have to do is open Terminal, which you can find in Spotlight.
Or you can also find it in the "Utilities" folder under your "Applications" folder.
Press Enter.
Terminal opens, and you're going to get this little window.
Now all you have to do is copy and paste the code
that I've left in the video description below.
com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
And we're now going to set the scheduled frequency in an integer.
A number which is number of days.
So the default is once every 7 days, once per week.
You can change that integer to maybe once every "2" days, or once every "1" day,
or once every "720" days.
That's not recommended obviously, but that's how often it will automatically check.
If you want to do it once a day,
"-int", Space, "1", Enter, and
that's it! You're good to go.
Number 4: I bet you already know about Quick Lift.
You know, where you select a file, press the spacebar, and you can see a preview of that image, that video, word document, PDF, whatever,
without having to actually open it in the native application.
What a lot of people don't know, however, is that
if you select multiple files, you can also preview them together and quickly.
So I've selected all these photos,
I press the spacebar, and then you'll see in this top menu bar there's this little tiny icon.
You can either click that, or you can press cmd+return,
and all of your photos or documents or videos, what-have-you, will show up in this nice little grid.
You can then view all of them, preview...
You can scroll through to see all of them in detail.
And then once you've selected the one you want to view again, you can
press the return key, and it shows up in its full resolution. Very very handy.
But wait; there's more!
If you're like me, you probably leave your "Downloads" folder in your dock.
It's a really handy way to get quick access to files that you've downloaded on the web.
However, what a lot of people don't know is that Quick Look also works in here.
All I have to do is over the file that I want to view, I press the spacebar, and...
Ta-da! I'm now getting a preview of that file.
Number 5: If you've ever held down a key on your keyboard...
For example, if I hold down "n",
a little menu pops up and I can put an "ñ" or an accented "ń".
Now this is handy if you type in multiple languages,
but if you don't, and you just want it to go "nnnnnnnnn.."
without having to actually press the button over and over and over again, there's a handy little Terminal command.
So again, open Terminal.
We've done it before; all you have to do is paste the command that I've included in the video description below,
we press enter,
and then you quit the application and you reopen it. So I reopen Tweetbot. And now when I hold down "n",
oooooooooh I get all the "n"s to my heart's content.
Now if you want to change it back, you paste the same command but change the boolean from "FALSE" to "TRUE".
Press Enter. You quit the application. You try to hold down "n" again, and it comes back to normal.
Number 6: This one is a bit weird, but hear me out because it's pretty cool.
Let's say you're copying and pasting a bunch of information from the web or from an email client or whatever and you don't want to
Have to copy and paste and copy and paste the little fragments that you'd actually like to use well
Here's a very handy trick if you open system preferences and go to keyboard and then you click shortcuts
And then you go to the services tab on the left and scroll down to where it says text
You can then find this little tiny thing right here
That says new text edit W... containing selection if I click the checkmark and then program a shortcut
I'm going to make mine. I don't know if control option command 1
Then what I can do is if I'm on the web, and I copy a sentence or a line or whatever
And I hit my shortcut it will
Automatically copy and paste that into a brand new
TextEdit document that I can keep track of separately so all my little fragments that I copy and paste and copy/paste they're all
Imported into documents automatically without me having a copy and paste them by hand it's really pretty handy
Number 7 the last tip this one is pretty awesome now
Admittedly most people don't steal mac books or imacs anymore because of iCloud
Activation lock if you lose your Mac if you can go to iCloud say
I lost my Mac you can lock the device and it basically turns your laptop into a brick and it can never be unlocked even
By Apple that's pretty cool, but let's say you just lose your laptop or you misplace it
Or there's lots of laptops in one office
And you want to keep track of yours rather than putting a sticker or a label with your name
And your telephone number on it. You can add that to the lock screen
It's really pretty handy all you have to do to add it is open terminal once more
And then you will paste the following command now where it says enter here inside of the quotes you
Enter your own custom message don't touch this you
Press ENTER, and then once you've done that it's totally good to go you can quit terminal
And then you can log out of your computer, and holy smokes it's there
It's really really handy, and now you're even more of a Mac OS pro
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