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defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 5
Preview can modify images. There's a button with a pencil icon that toggles a toolbar for simple image editing, such as adding lines, shapes, or texts.
The keyboard shortcut in finder to take you to your home directory, cmd + shift + h if I recall correctly. Makes it trivial to keyboard navigate to anything when you can easily start from the same place every time!
That you can hold down certain keys, like i and o, to access a list of similar characters that aren't found on the keyboard. My 1 year old taught me that one.
Wait until you find out you can change which directory screenshots save to. I have a dedicated "screenshots" directory in my home directory. And then a stack in the Dock for it similar to the one for the Downloads folder.
eg, Option-click the menubar wifi icon and you get all the details of your wifi connection including BSSID of the router you're actually connected to, RSSI, your assigned IP, etc.
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literally just discovered this yesterday myself for the first time - still prefer Spectacle, but nice that it’s there.
Spectacle is no longer being maintained. Rectangle [0] offers the same functionally and is OSS [0] https://rectangleapp.com/
I’ve never had even a single issue with Spectacle so not really a big deal to me that it’s no longer maintained. It Just Works, from my experience - with that said who knows for how long, I guess.
Hold down the option key when selecting text (in some editors) and it enables columnar selection. Can be very useful for certain editing tasks.
If you create a "Developer" folder in your ~ it's gonna have a different icon and is canonical place to put all your code in mac world.
Clicking wifi tray icon while holding option is going to give you a lot more info and some hidden tools.
Has anyone found a way to name desktop spaces anything other than Desktop 1, Desktop 2 etc?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211954/how-can-i-n...
Some people on this post are using ‘Stickies’ app to put a label on each one?
Otherwise, there are 3rd party apps that do it.