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📅 October 10, 2016

HOW TO: Quickly Expand Windows in macOS Sierra

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.

📅 October 10, 2016

HOW TO: Add a Stack With Recent Apps and Documents to Your Dock

easy way to add a stack of recent apps, documents, servers etc to your macOS dock

Using your computer is all about productivity. And being productive means you need to be organized. On macOS, a good place to start being organized is your Dock. One thing you can do is to add space separators in your dock so you can easily find what you’re looking for.

Another trick is to add a Recent Items folder to the Dock. This folder displays the recently closed apps/documents/servers/etc. It will not only clean up your Dock but it will also save you a lot of time when working with the same items over and over again.

Jump over the break to learn how to quickly access your recently closed items right from your Dock…

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📅 October 7, 2016

HOW TO: Add a Secret Scroll Gesture to Reveal App Windows on macOS Sierra

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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📅 October 6, 2016

HOW TO: Add Space Separators to the macOS Dock

What’s in my dock? Space separators

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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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📅 October 5, 2016

HOW TO: Adjust Volume and Brightness in 1/4 Increments on a Mac

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.

📅 October 5, 2016

HOW TO: Easily Hide All Desktop Icons on Your Mac

easy way to hide all desktop icons in macOS

Be honest, your Mac desktop isn’t as organized as you might want it to be. A cluttered desktop is a nightmare that will not only impact the speed of your Mac but it will also impact your workflow.

So what can you do? You can 1. Take your time to clean up your desktop 2. Select all the files, right click and choose “New Folder with Selection” or 3. Hide all your desktop icons.

Jump over the break to learn how to easily hide all desktop icons without installing any 3rd party app…

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📅 October 4, 2016

HOW TO: Easily Encrypt/Decrypt Folders on a Mac

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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📅 October 4, 2016

HOW TO: Copy-Paste Text Without Formatting on Mac

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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📅 October 3, 2016

HOW TO: Access the Hidden “Library” Folder on Your Mac

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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📅 September 30, 2016

HOW TO: Get Free iTunes, Amazon, PlayStation, Xbox etc Gift Cards and Free AT&T and Verizon Refill Cards

FREE gift cards and refill cards

Some of you might be familiar with this system, some of you might not. I’ve been personally using it for around 4 years now, and it’s been great. I mainly use it for Amazon and App Store/Mac App Store credit but you can use it for Google Play, Steam, Hulu Plus, PlayStation, Xbox, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Dominos, Sephora and so many more gift card options. Not only that but you can also get free AT&T and Verizon refill cards.

I’m talking about FreeMyApps, a system that rewards you with all the gift cards mentioned above for practically doing nothing. All you have to do is download free apps from the App Store or Google Play and run them for 30 seconds. That’s it.

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