Mac Tips and Tricks (Mavericks days)

I am not so good at mac or hack. But I find myself spending big time to make good use of mac.

So if any of you feel this page made your day happy, then I feel happy too.

Finder:       

Everybody uses Finder.

So what's the best shortcut to use finder........

                                                         Option + Command + Spacebar.

This actually opens a searching window. But the point is, you can open a finder without using the cursor.  If you are able to see the sidebar which contains your favorite folders, fine, If not 

   Option + Command + S

This actually shows/hides your sidebar of finder.

Dock:

What so special about dock here, it shows everything that you are working on.

Oops, sometimes that might be a problem. 

People, some of them, uses very wide range of apps in their system and their dock is like a mile long.

So if you want to hide the apps from dock but they should work in the background, here it is.

Add the following to application info.plist to make it go away from dock.

<key>LSUIElement</key>

<string>1</string>

To get to info.plist, go to Applications, select your app, tap with two fingers, you will get a menu, select 'Show Package Contents' , then Contents, there you find your info.plist.

Revealer:

Sometimes people want to deal with hidden files, that can be done easily by this.

Revealer

No History:

Some times we want apps not to store any data.

Cause we can't run after history and it's issues.

What we should do to tell the app not to store any history or Cache.

This might be your browser, preview or any other app.

For example: Let me tell my itunes not to store the history.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments

defaults write com.apple.iTunes.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments -dict-add MaxAmount 0

Type the above 3 lines in your terminal and press return.

The bold letter are the identifier of your app in your system.

Now the question is how to get the Identifier.

Open Activitiy Monitor and double click of your desired app and click on Sample button.

There you go you will see the identifier in that given data.

Browser:

So, how do you reopen the closed tab in your browser.

Don't say, you go to history and all.  Here it is.,

Safari                             : Command + Z

Others                            : Command + Shift + T (opposite to create a new tab Cmd + T)

Now how do you go to address bar, 

Don't use cursor             : Command + L

Close or Quit:

                              

What do you really wanna do Close or Quit:

Close the app                  : Command +W

Quit the app                    : Command + Q

So guys if the post is not readable or understandable, please excuse me, I am at LKG level in writing blogs.

Thanks,
Anilrajkumar Battini