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10 Actually useful Mac tips & tricks!

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Our video showcasing 10 useful tips and tricks for your mac. From useful keyboard shortcuts, to custom screenshots, and control center customization; after watching, you’ll be able to use your Mac like a pro!

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  3. Spacebar: Preview for Images and other files
    cmq+q: close applications
    cmd+cntr+space: emojis Keyboard
    cmd+shift+3(or 4/or 4+space) various options for taking screenshots
    activate tap to click in settings for trackpad
    forcepress or marked work with trackpad: open dictionary
    greenbutton up left in windows: split screen
    four fingers pinch: open launchpad (3fingers, thumb, like picking sth up)
    drag items from control center into menu bar

    just made that for me, maybe it helps someone…

  7. I was so happy with this video. The tricks were great! Few tips to make it perfect.
    1. Define your terms. Several words, such as force press and EMOS, or how to get that launch pad icon was missing.
    2. Keep your presentation 100% non-political. You give one example in here that shows some Apple stuff that is political. I suggest keeping your presentations pure as that is not needed.
    Otherwise fabulous job. I like the pacing, the voice, the topics.

  11. for me:
    1. for the emojis part, I like to make a little change in the settings so whenever I press FN it gives me the emoji keyboard
    2. I like to do Shift CMD 5, it gives you both options 3 and 4, and if you want it to be picture or video with which mic, etc
    3. Actually the lookup feature is true with 3 fingers (as you said) and not with 1 finger as you write
    4. Since you talked about split screen, I think checking out the application named Magnet in the app store would be something you would like! I didn't know there was an actual split in mac so I tried to see if there were any other options and I came by this application it gives you so many options

    Here's some extra tip
    you can change the formatting of a photo let's say from PNG to JPEG just by renaming that file into the formatting you want! not only limited to photos for sure but I can for example switch from PPTX to pdf just by renaming that file 🙂

    I really loved the video! it is amazing and the space feature with the preview will definitely come in handy! thank you so much, Michael have a blessed day

  18. Hi Michael, Split screen was my favorite new tip. I have a question. My iMac is two years old. When it was new I could hold down vowel keys and accents in other languages would appear above the letter, so I was able to select that letter with an accent. Recently I had some help from Apple support and they made some changes to my computer, after which the accent feature disappeared and now if I hold down a vowel key, the letter just keeps repeating instead of offering me accent options. I have called Apple twice and they can't restore the accent feature. However, here are some instruction, which unfortunately, I cannot understand. Is this something you can explain to us. I may not be the only one missing the accents option. Thanks very much.