easy built-in way to rearrange and remove icons from the menu bar
Just like the macOS Dock, the macOS menu bar can get overpopulated. There’s 3rd party apps that allow you to hide them but with macOS Sierra there’s also a new-old feature that made it back to the OS that allows you to easily rearrange your menu icons.
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quickly expand windows in macOS Sierra
Here’s a macOS Sierra trick for quickly expanding windows to the edge of the screen. Hover your mouse cursor over the edge of the window you want to expand until it turns into a expand cursor. Double click and the window will expand to the edge of the screen.
If you want to expand the window to the left of the screen hover your mouse on top left or bottom left of the window edge.
If you want to expand the window to the right of the screen hover your mouse on top right or bottom right of the window edge.
If you want to expand the window in both directions, hover your mouse over any edge of the window, hold Options ( Alt ) key and double click.
how to enable a secret scroll gesture for the dock on macOS Sierra
We’ve touched on this before, but it’s time for this trick to be revisited for macOS Sierra. There are plenty of gestures for Magic Trackpads, the Magic Mouse and MacBooks designed specifically to make your life easier.
Some of them are enabled by default, some of them you can change in your System Preference, and some of them are not enabled at all. Jump over the break to check out how you can enable a secret scroll gesture that will reveal what windows are open in an app.
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What’s in my dock? Space separators
For some reason people like to have their “most used” apps in the dock. I mean, Spotlight does an amazing job at finding and launching any app, and it’s a cmd+space away. Why do you need them in the dock? To each his own…
The problem is that sometimes that dock becomes overpopulated. So, how will it be faster to launch an app from the dock when you have to find it first?
If you have a full dock, maybe you want to organize it a bit. Did you know that you can add space separators to your dock?
Using spaces you can add sections to your dock, so you can easily find what you’re looking for. For example: system apps, add a space, browsers, add a space, photoshop/illustrator/video editing/etc, add a space, and so on.
Jump over the break to learn how to easily add spaces to your dock….
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Adjust the volume and brightness of you Mac ever so slightly
This one will be short and sweet. Everybody knows how to increase or decrease the screen brightness on the Mac or how to turn up the volume. It’s simple, the keys are right there in front of you on the keyboard.
But what do you do if you want to turn up the volume just ever so slightly? Instead of pressing the volume up key on your keyboard, press Shift+Option+Volume Up.
The same key combo works for screen brightness but, obviously, you’ll press the screen brightness keys instead of the volume keys.
easy way to password protect your folders on a Mac
We already showed you how to easily encrypt and decrypt files on your Mac. Today I’m going to show you just how easy it is to encrypt/decrypt folders on your Mac using nothing but Disk Utility
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easy way to copy-paste text without formatting on a Mac
If you ever used a computer, I suppose you know the basics of cut ( cmd+X ), copy ( cmd+C ) and paste ( cmd+V ).
Usually when you move from one document to another, the text formatting carries over and most of the time that’s not something you want. Luckily, there’s an easy fix…
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easy ways to access the “Library” Folder on your Mac
The macOS “Library” folder is where you can find things like apps settings and caches etc. A lot of tutorials mention this folder, but it’s hidden by default. It makes sense if you think about it. Mess with this folder only if you know what you’re doing or you follow a trusted source. Like FSM.
There are a few different ways to access the hidden “Library” folder on the Mac. Jump over the break to learn how to do it…
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ONYX for macOS Sierra
Onyx is now available for macOS Sierra. If you’re not familiar with the tool, Onyx is a multifunction utility for macOS that allows you to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, login window, Spotlight, and many of Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, and more.
Download Onyx here.
