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Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
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#102Cmd+Shift+Period : toggles 'shows hidden files' in Finder
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#103I'll add one of my favorite ones: you can do Option-Command-C to copy the path of a file to the clipboard (if you need to use it somewhere that doesn't support dragging to paste a path).
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#104If you use multiple monitors, and you're frustrated with the cmd-tab app switcher only appearing on the last monitor you touched the dock, this will make it show up on all monitors. defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true killall Dock
You're a good person.
That's been bugging me for years, but just a tad under bugging me enough that I'd take the time to solve it.
Thank you!
Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
#105My personal must haves are Yoink for drag and drop, Moom for window sizing/placement, Default Folder X.
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#106> cmd+shift+4 pops up a crosshair to take a screenshot of a region. If you hit space at after invoking the crosshairs then you can take full window screenshots. This mode is nice for marketing material as it also captures the drop shadow and rounded corners rendered properly as a transparent png.
cmd+shift+5 pops up a screenshot and record tool for screen, window or selectable area. Also lets you send to file, clipboard, mail, etc.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
After cmd-shift-4 and space, a simple copies the window with its shadow. Some modified allows to copy just the window. But I forgot which modifier.
Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot. As a vastly more general rule, hold down Option while clicking anything on a Mac to get the alternate/advanced form of the click action ( e.g., try Option-clicking the various status icons on the right end of the menu bar).
>> Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot.
You just taught an exclusively-MacOS user of 15+ years a new trick! Thank you! :) I often marvel at how fantastic this OS truly is.
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#108Does anyone have a tip to keep macOS from phoning home when you run unsigned binaries? I almost locked up my entire computer this week, presumably because of this... here's the story for that: I had setup unbound listening on 127.0.0.1:53 as the only DNS resolver for all network interfaces, so that I hijack several responses that I might want to (e.g. adnet sinkholes) and forward the rest to Google/Cloudflare over TL…
> Does anyone have a tip to keep macOS from phoning home when you run unsigned binaries? Block the syspolicyd process with Little Snitch.
LOL I want to know who downvoted this.
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#109I'll add another one, if you have a file dialog open, hit Command+Shift+G to open a dialog that let's you type in the path. Useful if you are going back and forth between terminal and some GUI app and some path is in your clipboard.
You can also use tab completion in said dialog.
And tilde also works for your home.
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#110Author says Alfred is marginally better than Spotlight but I use it for so many different things. Doing quick math is a very common function for me. My favorite hidden trick is cmd+L which displays the typed text in HUGE fonts, so someone across the room can read it.
I suspect the author hasn't dug into Alfred a ton because they use hammerspoon for some things that most people do in Alfred.