1. Accessibility > Zoom > "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom" > Ctrl So you press "Ctrl" and then scroll down on the trackpad and it will zoom in anywhere/on anything . Use it quite often and love it :) 2. Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad options > Enable dragging > Without dragg lock This one takes some time getting used to but it's awesome once you get the hang of it 3. Control–Shift–Power but…
Scroll zoom is also great for giving live technical demos! I picked this up after watching some WWDC videos and it's so much better for drawing focus during a live demo than using something like a laser pointer.
Every time you do a screen recordin with quicktime, encode it to h264 to save a LOT of space and make it playable on any device. To do that use Handbrake, whick is open source and the go-to app for any encoding.
ffmpeg -i -o out.mp4 also a super easy way to do this too since it'll get re-encoded. I don't know why screen recordings aren't handled this way automatically
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…
I tried Cmd-b search in spotlight but it went with Firefox+Google when my default is Firefox+Duckduckgo, any chance someone knows how to fix it?
So, I've been messing around with this for about 30 minutes now. I don't like giving bad advice!
Set safari as your default, set the search engine you want in the safari preferences, change your browser back to what you prefer.
Any idea if there is a way to remove the preview that shows up in the bottom right corner? OSX doesn't write the screenshot until after that disappears which is annoying
The preview thing is really handy as you can directly drag and drop it into a document or chat window or whatever. After you’ve done that it won’t be saved, which is great as you can quickly snap and use a screenshot without having to switch to the Finder - and the desktop doesn’t get cluttered with hundreds of images.
A huge problem with this is that some apps don't "accept" this drag and drop, and the preview just disappears without saving the screenshot file. I can't remember the exact apps which behave that way, but I've been burned and irritated multiple times because of this. As a result, I disabled the preview feature and added the screenshot folder to the dock just like OP did.
I’ve been using windows more recently since my personal Mac bit the dust and I’m trying to decide if there’s really that much reason to own a personal Mac. So now I realize for years I’ve been using this silent feature of macs for years called “not totally jacked up font rendering”. I would never have imagined this was a feature, but apparently there is a collective insanity in windowsland where the quality of font r…
This is a holy war topic. Some people, myself included, prefer how Windows render fonts. Others prefer MacOS. From what I recall the last time this came up on HN, MacOS tries to render true to the font as if in a professional work flow that ends with a physical product. Windows aims for on screen legibility as it's primary goal. Also remember that most Windows machines have a much lower DPI screen that what comes wit…
I regularly switch between devices, platforms, and monitors. On all platforms, it really depends on the font, the application, and the hardware. For example, Windows has a really hard time if you have multiple monitors with different DPIs. Some macOS applications have trouble with some monitors. macOS itself has trouble with some monitors. It varies widely.
Unmounting/ejecting a drive by dragging its desktop icon to the trash. I know you did this in really old macs to eject a floppy, but it's cool they keep that feature around on modern macOS
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…
Command + L inside Spotlight to jump to the dictionary definition of the word you just typed.