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This makes servers running on the mac unreliable (sometimes it's not listening to the net) and adds interference to other devices.
If you’re in Terminal and want to open a Finder window with the current path, just type “open .”
`open ./someFile.foo -a App\ Name`
or even just
`open -a App\ Name`
Others already mentioned:
- three-finger drag is indispensable. Anytime I touch someone else's laptop I turn it on and blow their minds
- hold Cmd in Spotlight to reavel the path containing the selected item, Cmd + Enter opens that folder in Finder.
- readline keys work in basically every text input on the machine. Want to delete a line? C-a C-k. Delete the word preceding the cursor? M-Backspace.
- Cmd + Down opens the selected item in finder, Cmd + Up jumps one level up the folder hierarchy Cmd + Left/Right expand/collapse
Does an app have shortcut you don't like? Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and click the plus. As prompted, enter the exact title of menu action you want trigger and the new shortcut. I use the on all my machines to rebind Quit Safari / Chrome / Firefox /Mail to Cmd + Option + Q to avoid killing the application when I fat-finger Cmd + Q instead of Cmd + W. Others already mentioned: - th…
Worth noting: Chrome actually no longer dies when you fat-finger cmd-w. It shows a "hold cmd-q to quit" overlay and only dies if you keep holding the keys down.
Cmd + tab to quit applications Instead of releasing cmd to switch to the application, you can press q to quit it.
The `say` command line tool. It will cause a synthesized voice to speak out loud whatever follows that command via text-to-speech. This is especially useful for pranking your loved ones for whom you have remote shell access. ssh in and cause the other person’s computer to start talking to them... by name... asking for help... to be let out of the small metal box they’ve been trapped in for SO long... This has been av…
Cmd-space to bring up spotlight Type whatever you want. Cmd-b Your default web browser with your default search engine will now open and perform your query. I can't stress this enough how much I use this workflow when writing code. Another thing for the OPs issue with the screenshots, (there's a few steps via terminal so maybe try the above shortcut to search for an article on how to do it) you can have all your scre…
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On the topic of screenshots, one I didn’t know was hitting space before you take a screenshot will make it capture an entire Window, including the shadow instead of having to drag a region
Plus holding option while you click takes a screenshot without the shadow, which I find vastly preferable. I only found out about that a couple of months ago, after a long time being annoyed.
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I know, right? Been using Macs for 25 years and discovered it a few months ago on accident. Not sure how long it's been there, but definitely a dumb name!
I remember this from the classic Mac OS days (i.e. System 7) circa 1994. It’s probably even older than that.
> Lisa users never dealt with Lisa applications directly (these were called tools in Lisa parlance) but instead always manipulated stationery pads which produced documents.
(1) https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&in...