I've compiled a list of 10 things every first time Mac owner, particularly Mac Mini owner, should know about their new computer and operating system. This article should answer some burning questions, enlighten you about some features you did not know about OS X and just all around be helpful. Enjoy. Any questions can be directed towards me here. I wrote this for 123MacMini.
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Duke Nukem 3D For Mac OS X 12162004 This package includes an installer that will install the game from either the PC 'Atomic Edition' disc, or the MacSoft disc from the Mac Classic version of the game. If you don't have a retail disc, the installer can give you the free shareware episode. Operating System OS X 10.10 Yosemite (Renewed) Apple MacBook Air 13.3' Laptop Computer, 1440 x 900 Display, Intel Core i5 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, AC WiFi, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt, Webcam, Silver, Mac OS, Hamedal 64GB USB Flash Drive. This article was co-authored by Chiara Corsaro.Chiara Corsaro is the General Manager and Apple Certified Mac & iOS Technician for macVolks, Inc., an Apple Authorized Service Provider located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Was founded in 1990, is accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) with an A+ rating, and is part of the Apple Consultants Network (ACN).
Upgrading to 512MB of DDR RAM is suggested and will get you off to using a Mac on the right foot while an upgrade to 1GB will really unleash some speed. More RAM means you can have more applications open at the same time and decreased boot times. I recommend 1GB for photoshop or other intensive application users. Any memory rated DDR333 or higher will suffice. If you can find one with a CAS latency of 2 or 2.5, get that over one with a CAS of 3. If you're not sure to go Crucial's Mac section should be just what the doctor ordered.
No Need to Defrag
Whenever a PC is acting sluggish the first thing you hear people ask is 'Have you tried defragging the hard drive?' However, this is not the case with Macs. Based on the proven and reliable Unix architecture with a Mac OS Extended Journaled file system, you don't have to worry about defragmenting your hard drive to boost access/reading/writing times; it is done for you automatically. (Technically, it is not being defragged but things are just put in their place with journaling) Whenever your mac detects that it is fairly idle or you attempt to use a heavily fragmented file, it will start fixing up your filesystem. This might explain some noises coming from your computer in the middle of the night (assuming you left it on). Although, if you feel so inclined there is an excellent program by the name of iDefrag, which I reviewed.
Closing Unresponsive Applications
The Mac equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up a system tasks profiler for force quitting unresponsive tasks is CMD-OPTION-ESC (or Windows-ALT-ESC if you are using a PC keyboard). Just select the frozen application and hit Force Quit. If a program is completely frozen, it will appear in red text.
Where Did That Window Go?
You will quickly learn that when you minimize your applications, they go to the dock. Specifically the items to the right of the bar in the dock menu are open finder windows or applications. This is similar to the area where minimized applications go in the windows task bar. Also, if a finder window is not minimized, but behind another open window you can bring it up by clicking on the finder icon in the dock.
Updates
You will want to occasionally check for updates from Apple by accessing the Apple menu and clicking on Software Update. I recommend heading over to Apple > System Preferences > Software Update and setting your Mac to automatically check for software updates weekly and download important updates in the background.
System Profiler
The System Profiler, accessible via Apple > About This Mac > More Info, is the one stop shop for finding out anything about your Mac. Similar to Windows XP's Administrative tasks and Device Manager, the System Profiler is easy to navigate and offers you a plethora of system information from application versions to the MAC address of your ethernet card.
Expose
Apple introduced Expose to OS X to make your life easier, so go ahead and use it to your heart's content. Go to Apple > System Preferences > Dashboard & Expose and play with some of the settings to make those menial tasks more convienient to execute. My favorite Expose tip is setting an active corner to open up Dashboard. One simple mouse movement and Dashboard launches.
Login Items
A major annoyance with some applications is that upon installation they will automatically set themselves to run when you boot your computer. For Windows XP, you would usually run msconfig to remedy this problem. However in OS X you can access a similar menu in Apple > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. From here you can add, remove and hide items that launch when you login.
Eject Optical Media
This is probably only a problem for those that are using non-Apple keyboards, that lack a CD Eject key. Press and Hold F12 for 2 seconds to eject any CD or DVD. An alternate method is dragging the CD icon on the desktop to the trash. This will not delete it. You can also use the Command-E keystroke.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Winning megabucks number. If saving time and being productive is the name of the game, then keyboard shortcuts are for you. The next time you are browsing around the menus of your favorite applications, take a glance at the right side of the menu to see if you find any shortcuts that can help you out. Here are a few to get you started.
- Command-? Mac Help
- Command-A Select All
- Command-C Copy
- Command-D Duplicates current item
- Command-E Ejects selected volume, media, or server
- Command-F Find
- Command-H Hide current application
- Command-I Opens Get Info dialog for selected item
- Command-J Toggles View Options Open & Closed
- Command-K Connect to server
- Command-L Creates Alias for selected item
- Command-M Minimize a Finder-folder to Dock
- Command-Option-M Save as above but minimizes all open Finder-folders
- Command-N Opens up new Finder window
- Command-O Opens selected item
- Command-Q Quits active application
- Command-V Paste
- Command-W Closes Finder-folder window
- Command-Option-W Same as above but closes all Finder-folders
- Command-X Cut
- Command-Z Undo
- Command-Del Moves selected item to Trash
- Command-Shift-A Opens the applications folder
- Command-Shift-N Creates a new folder in the selected workspace
- Command-Shift-Del Empty Trash
- Command-Tab Rotate through open applications and switch to highlighted app
- Command-~ Same as above but only flips through open windows in the selected application
Unobtrusive small macOS app designed to further extend Night Shift's capabilities and make it a more useful tool for power users
What's new in Shifty 1.1.2:
- Fixes an issue that causes Shifty to crash on launch on macOS 10.14.6 and later
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Even though its name might raise some eyebrows, Shifty's feature collection will quickly bring them back down as it has been designed to extend Night Shift's feature pack and make any Mac's displays even more friendly after sunset.
If you haven't yet gotten acquainted with Apple's Night Shift, it is a macOS feature created to automatically shift your monitors' colors to a warmer tint on the color spectrum, thus lowering the amount of blue light to once it gets dark outside.
Quickly toggle Night Shift with a mouse click
Having warmer colors on your Mac's display after dark has been proven to make it easier to get to sleep although it might sound like hocus pocus. As a plus, your circadian rhythm will also thank you for having your internal body clock work like a metronome 24 hours per day, seven days a week. This is the game mac os.
Even though Night Shift works very well as it is, it does lack some features, and Shifty adds them to your Mac's menu bar and makes them readily available via its status bar menu.
Thus, once installed and launched on your Mac, you can rapidly toggle Night Shift on and off with a simple mouse click on Shifty's status bar item after you enable the 'Quickly Toggle' option within the app's preferences.
Adjust the color temperature manually and disable Night Shift on a per-app basis
Once this option is enabled, Shifty's menu bar icon will act as a toggle button, but you will still be able to access its menu with a right click of your mouse. A field of flowers and stars demo mac os.
Dat game hub. From the Preferences window, you can also configure Shifty to be launched automatically on system start up, to have all the extra features it adds to Night Shift available right after logging in.
How to boot macbook air from usb. Shifty also enables you to customize the color temperature level using a slider control and, most importantly, to disable Night Shift for the current foreground application, a long awaited and coveted feature which Apple might not ever include.
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Additionally, via Shifty's status bar menu you can disable Night Shift altogether either for a fixed one-hour interval or for a custom amount of time if needed.
Low-key app designed to boost Night Shift's capabilities
If you've been using Night Shift since Apple added it to macOS Sierra, we're sure that you've also wanted at least a couple of additional features to make it a little more customizable and capable of replacing apps like F.lux and Iris.
Well, after installing Shifty, Night Shift will most likely feel like a complete, easily customizable and production-ready macOS feature for power users, just like it was supposed to be on its launch.
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Shifty 1.1.2
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