You'll wish you knew these Mac Tips YEARS ago!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- This is my second video showing you 10 Mac Tips that you might not already know!
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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Bulk Rename Files
1:29 - Stacks
2:16 - Tags
2:57 - Traffic Lights
4:14 - Hot Corners
5:04 - Dictation
5:52 - Copy and Paste across devices
7:01 - More Fingerprints
7:31 - Tap to Click
8:17 - Sign PDFs
9:23 - End - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I have used a Mac since 1987 and I think the title of this video series is so appropriate. Simply and clearly and professionally presented. Please keep them coming!
Can you please do a vid about icloud? I'd like to how I can make sure all my files are available on my ipad, imac, ipone and macbook at any time. I see lots of little icons that mean nothing to me. I also update Pages documents on my iPad and they're not automatically syhcned with my iMac. Any help would be magic, cheers
So it’s not just me being dumb, thank goodness! Yes please help demystify iCloud synching & file management!
Me too I think I have stuff everywhere and is unorganized please help
Hi! The best way to quickly sync everything between devices is using Airdrop.
On iCloud uploading a file depends on your wifi speed and file size. Maybe a 2GB file uploaded from you Mac to iCloud but it’ll take time to upload to other devices. Even more if it’s to be synced on many devices. Airdrop is the fastest way.
@@Cesar_Orostegui no that’s not the point of having a synced library - air drop is mainly for sharing with other people. iCloud works perfectly when having it set up correctly
@@lindaj5492 just use the „Documents“ folder in iCloud for everything and make sure the settings for sharing files on iCloud are enabled on all devices. It’s super straightforward actually. You can even share your desktop
Some of my favorite tips would be using SpotLight. Instead of opening your calculator, you can hit Cmd+Spacebar and type 57*44 and you'll get the answer. You can use this for currency conversions, unit conversions. That's aside from finding apps, files and searching the web.
thank you for the tap to click tip. this saved me a lot of time
Even I don't own a Mac watching these videos and getting to know the OS is so enjoyable. Thank you!
Glad that already knew these tips. The 3 finger drag is for me the most useful feature that is not enabled by default
As always, well-paced and clear. I use most of these tips though still need to remind myself about some of them now and then.
Excellent, much appreciated! Please keep them coming. Oh and love your calm unhurried straight speaking delivery. TY.
Holy cow: "Use Stacks" on the desktop is great. Thak you. I've been a Mac user for a decade and had no idea.
Great tips! The copy between my 2 Macs is priceless! I have an older iMac and Mac Studio. The older machine is not on iCloud bc I only use it for playing tutorials on programming. This is a great use-case for me. Thanks a million!
I really like your 10 tips videos, Tom. Since I moved to Apple a couple of months ago after 36 years (1986!) in the Microsoft-Intel world, I used a lot of your tips to make my MacBook Pro comfortable and convenient. Nice to hear a clear English accent, too. All the best, Rob in Switzerland
Great videos and some useful tips I was aware of but hadn't fully known.
A feature that gets very little use is the Automator. As a survey I often take hundreds of images and the camera files are generally large. I have a single step automator set up that allows me to scale images in Finder. Scaling will reduce the file size by up to 80% and using this method 200 photos can easily be scaled in only a couple of minutes, with only a single right click context menu.
Loved this one❣️The live or visual demos are the best! Can you please have a video on picture organization. Specifically on how to rename a batch of pictures. Like 60 or more at once. I work with images all the time. Some need to be renamed, merged, put in order etc. I am really struggling with it. I just switched from windows to Mac not long ago.. Windows was more simple when it comes to work with images. Or I just need to learn the MAC side of it😂 Unfortunately, there are not many tutorials on picture manipulation. Thank you for all the help! By the way I just love the way you teach.
The last one blown my mind.
Great video as usual. I’ve gotten so much benefit from your content; you condense all the fluff and get straight to the useful info. Every Mac user should subscribe! On a personal note, the British accent is just an adorable perk.
Great stuff 👍🏻
I have been using a Mac for many years and guess I had become a bit lazy about keeping up with things.
Really useful.
Many thanks
Thanks / really great tips - already implemented some. Have started following you for great tips and ideas
Hi could you do a video, showing which iPhone apps you use and why?
That's a good idea
Thanks for these helpful tips. Ive started using Handoff and also added two more fingerprints - due to this video
3:40 if you’re running macOS Monterey or higher you can also chose to show the menu bar when in full screen in system preferences
in the Tip #4 you can make Full Screen Mode with the Menu Bar, in the Setting there is an options let u make Menu Bar Fixed even in Full Screen Mode
I know some of tips, but the CMD+Q and OPTION+full screen are priceless ! thanks a lot.
The signature feature for PDF files is well cool. I didn't know that. Thanks
I had stacks of fun. TY
Fantastic! Thanks!
Great tips dude! Thanks
nice voice, really soft and smooth
Great tips, many of them I‘ll take into my workflow. Thank you so much. 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
Rename in a bulk is awesome! Thanks for this tip!
I have been manually dragging corners of windows to fit the full screen for 20 years until today. I would never press the green "Enter Full Screen" button as I would lose all the toolbar accessibility. Just accepted it as a Mac flaw... Good Lord the cumulative years of productivity I've wasted...
This was VERY helpful. Thanks
Three finger drag, a must.
Indeed, can't use a trackpack with any Mac without it.
Do you know about the trackpad option "Enable dragging - with/without drag lock? Head on over to Accessibility > pointer control > trackpad options. There you can double-tap and drag to simulate the click functionality of the trackpad. Between that and the "tap to click" feature you just talked about I never physically click the trackpad anymore.
What a sweet bloke. Thanks, mate.
That's kind of you - and you're welcome! 👍🏻
Amazing video. Thankyou. 🙌🏻
This was brill! Can’t believe the simple but awesome housekeeping things I never knew about!
I liked your comment „handoff should work“, by any reason I struggle to get it working every time I want to
Learned a lot, yet again. Thank you.
I’m a new subscriber to your channel, and this content is really helpful and you make it easy to understand not to mention I learned a lot of new things. Keep up and thumbs up 👍
My favourite features is being able to use my iPhone to scan documents, photos etc straight onto my MacBook. I use it all the time.
This is brilliant! Thank you. I always used a 3rd party App to rename multiple files, never knew it was there all the time. Will you also be doing something similar with MacOS13 Ventura.?
Yes, I plan to create content for all of the new OS releases once they’re generally available
Thanks!
You’re welcome - Thank you so much!
This channel is so underrated. Great informative content. Thanks for sharing 🙏.
One question on Apple notes in iphone - Do you know how to undo and redo in apple notes ? without shacking.. Are there any other option available ?
Thanks again !
Stacks! I needed this, thank you.
Great work!!!
Great video do you have anything for automation
very helpful for people like myself who bought into apple ecosystem but in reality aren't anywhere near the best of the systems . thank you more please
Hello! Thanks for a great video. Could you please help me out on the menu meter which you use to monitor the CPU, GPU and Memory stats in the menu bar..?
You are not lying! I learned a lot
also, you can change the folders icon with any jpg file. so you can have any visual folder you want. it is so helpful when you have a bunch of design elements (.eps) you don't have to open to see what kind of files are inside. all you have to do is copy whatever image you want then right-click on the folder. Click get info then right-click the folder icon on getting info on the left corner. and press paste. now you change your folder icon to whatever image you want.
One I find essential is disabling that annoying 'Caps Lock' key.
Go into System Prefs/Keyboard/be sure left hand 'Keyboard' button is selected/select the 'Modifier Keys' button near lower Right/and change the 'Caps Lock' pull down menu to 'No Action' & click 'Ok'
This dance takes but a few seconds, usually only needs to be done once; and can be easily/quickly reversed... but couldn't imagine ever doing so.
Great job. Your presentation form is excellent.
Great tips, very useful 👍
haven't seen the other video but: cmd+shift+4 makes a screenshot. Hitting the spacebar afterwards take a screenshot of the entire current window. cmd+shift 5 does the same for video
My own amazing Mac tool is Keyboard Maestro, basically the single most important tool I could pick on my mac. It’s basically a macro program that can fire off steps based on things I want to automate, but it’s so ridiculously powerful, being able to save data to variables, access all kinds of system info, run Applescript or Javascript inside macros, and do UI scripting that would be impossible otherwise, it’s something I would never give up.
What do you mean by "UI scripting"?
You can make it so that the menu bar stays in place for full screen apps through system preferences
Sir are you going to do any thoughts on the new MacBooks?
I find the little finger good for login. The print always stays good, unlike thumbs. . . .
I have issues with accidental activations when using tap-to-lick on trackpads. I find physical or force clicking to be less troublesome.
Great tips indeed 1 by 1! I still struggle to connect my 3k MacBook via bluetooth with a Samsung phone for tethering reasons. If by any chance someone figured it out my appreciation will be mountain high.
It's not really a macOS tip, but I love using my iPad Pro as a second monitor with Sidecar. As a motorsport journalist and photographer it is so handy to have a second screen at the press center. I usually have my ftp client on the second screen while editing in Lightroom and I can pull up result sheets or entry lists to add metadata to my pictures without having to switch between Lightroom and Preview or Safari.
I'm amazed that among 100 people in the press room, you see two external monitors and I'm the only one using Sidecar.
This was all review for me but still a well done video. I think that signature feature is underused by Mac users. I'm glad you mentioned that at the very end of this video.
This is an amazing video. First video was already a surprise”!
I’ve been using tap to click for 15 years!
Caught that alpha place album in Apple Music, great taste man, Knucks is unreal
Can you please show us the best ways to get the dock to show up when apps are in full screen using the Magic Mouse ..
if you move your mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen using the Magic Mouse the dock does not show up! It is so frustrating. It only appears when apps are in normal view that it shows up instantly.
Hi, very recently apple photos stopped syncing with iCloud on my Mac Air. However my iPhone and iMac still perform as expected. I’ve tried many forums but no one appears to have a solution although the problem seems to be quite common. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
You get my thumbs up 👍
Which lens or focal length are you using for shooting these videos?
It’s interesting to see how your and my thinking about Tap to Click are exactly opposite: While you point out the silence of the light tap, I really prefer not to have to lift my finger. As a plus, actually pressing to click the trackpad means you can hold it for drag and drop, although I usually use a second finger to hold while the first moves the items.
Did you know you can make the click silent as well?
You don't need to press it to drag something. Under Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options > Enable dragging > three finger drag. It's pretty useful! Give it a try. :D
@@AlejandroGuidotti I knew about the option, but thought it only dragged windows, not anything. Just tried it with sliders, apps in the dock, and files on my desktop. I mean, I still like holding with one finger and dragging with another, but more options is always better. Great tip!
Very good. I have a question, when you "hand off" do you need to be in "word" or do you have to be in notepad? also when you paste in your phone or on your ipad, do you have to have a word document open or do you open note pad or a different program or app and which ones work?
Well thought out, cool title 😄
The bulk file naming tip had me raging because I realized how much time I have wasted all these year. OMG... WHYYYY
Wonderful video. Thanks! I have been trying to find how to change something, but I can't find how to do it. The default photo icon thumbnail size for Finder is tiny. I think it is 64 x 64 pixels. So, in the Finder I went to View | Show View Options and made it larger and made it the default. When using Finder directly all is good, but then when I am on a forum forum, on Facebook, creating an email, etc. when I want to add a photo to a post a Finder window pops up with the original tiny thumbnails. How can I make this pop up Finder show the default thumbnail size that I set? I add photos probably 20 times a day and the tiny thumbnails in the upload window that are smaller than the default size in the regular Finder are a big annoyance and hard to find the photo I want in a folder. Do you know how to adjust the thumbnail size in this popup Finder window?
Also - is there a corresponding short cut for paste?
Hi, my dad has the problem that when he connects one of his external HDs and then clicks into each different folder, the windows stack up into multiple windows instead of opening in the same window. That means he ends up with a lot of windows on the desktop and it is sometimes confusing. Is there any option in settings that can be changed to make it so that each folder (from the external drive) opens up in the same window?
Ps, it doesn't happen with all his external HDs, only some for whatever reason
Thanks for your help.
Thank you! Can Apple please add a full (.) stop to their main keyboard that comes up in email, WApp etc. or is there a way I can do it myself?
I did not know the copy paste across devices. That's a life saver. I wish I knew about that before. It could have helped me a lot. Thank you! Please see if there is any solution for these annoying things with Mac and I am usually a Windows guy. 1 Is there any way to center the preview app or at least open it to the right instead of the left of the screen that it opens by default. 2 why can I not just use the arrow keys to see pictures in a folder in preview app. why do I have to select them all and then use the arrow keys(I know about space bar but that's totally different) 3 I open the finder in full screen and I have 10 pics. I open the first pic(which is just the preview) and I see that the finder minimizes to the dock. why? So I have to close this preview. open the finder again and click on the next picture. However if the finder is not in full screen it acts just like in Window that is the finder just stays on the screen when I open a pic and when I close the picture the finder is still open on the screen and I can just click on the next pic. Thanks again!
IDK if you mentioned this one: Take a screenshot of the whole screen: Shift + Command + 3;
Capture part of the screen: Shift + Command + 4;
Capture a window or menu: Shift + Command + 4 + Space bar;
I've had mixed experiences with Dictation. Some times it does well, and sometimes it doesn't.
Great
Yesterday I needed to sign a PDF in my Mac. When i tried to create a signature , the option of creating one with the iPad wasn't available. Any idea why?
I tried clicking option + the green button in Safari to zoom in the app but it is not responding, however, its working with other apps such as mail, notes etc...
I don't know if it's a bug or Safari does not support it.
Hey, bluetooth of macbook pro 2020 gets disconnected often. Can some one help me with that?. I tried all tips from Google but nothing seems to be working.
Now there's one real hidden secret trick for Mac users: you have several pages documents or keynotes open and want to see the options: Klick "hard" -> with "forced touch" on the app button (Pages, Keynote, ...)
Well I’m on into Mac OS since System 6! Some of the functions you showcased were performed by 3rd party add ons some time back and got incorporated into the system. It’s a little wired for me using a Mac and not knowing those functions… but let noobs be noobs
Have you seen Mac Ventura yet
I’ve seen the video from the conference, all looks pretty good from what I’ve seen.
I can't tell you how much I would like to change the theme to dark in Music on my mac. I dj at night and it it much too bright. I know I can dim it but the doesn't do it for me. Is there any way?
I got a macbook pro and its login background is horrible. How can I change it? I can only seem to change the background of the desktop after login.
When I copy files to e.g. an external disk, then I get two files for each copied file pasted onto the disk: the actual file, e.g. myfile.txt and a second file ._myfile.txt which is unreadable. Very annoying. Can you tell me what this is and how to fix it.
Two questions:
1. How did you set up that “guidelines” prompt to pop up here on YT comments? As a fellow YT creator (I’m Mascon Leather here on YT), that would be a great feature. (Edited - Never mind this one…. Just figured It out. )
2. Again, as another YT creator, what app do you use as a teleprompter?
Thanks!
3:50 MONEY!!
Maybe show how to use Fotos? One of the most confusing apps and I try to awoid using it. Maybe show how to quick get your iPhones fotos from phone to a folder ?
Do you mean the stock Apple Photos app that comes on iPhones, iPads and Macs?
@@ProperHonestTech Yes precisely
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Fyi: No link to first vid. :(
Fixed, it’s now in the description.
So will I be a cheese grater or a trash can?
Here another pro and hidden tip: Cmd+c yo copy
Command W closes a document, Command Q Quits an App, but the better choice is Command H to Hide the App.
Zoom's not working with Safari.
A mistake you stated. You said “Command + W” to fully quit the app. I think you meant “Command + Q” since ‘W’ only closes the window. (Your annotation in the video does show the correct ‘Q’ however.)
Hi Tim - yes, that’s why the caption is there…