Some Simple Mac Tricks

Hey guys, this is Mac Heads One with a little video on a few Mac tricks and tips that you might know how to do on your Mac and you might not. These are things that have been right in front of you the whole time, but you might not know about.

Um, the first one, which is the simplest in my opinion, is very helpful. So right here, I have a few icons on my desktop, and say they're not really aligned that well. So let's just say I want to align these. I can hold Command while dragging them, and it automatically aligns them for me.

So I'll just hold Command and it'll align it perfectly. If I drag it here, it moves there. So it makes your stuff align a lot better, and it's just cool.

Um, another thing while we're on the Command is, if you look in your dock right now, things in your dock are just shortcuts. So let me find an application, like Man Viewer. If you just drag it off your dock, it will just disappear from your dock. But since that's just a shortcut, it won't actually delete anything.

But, say you want to actually drag the physical application, Man Viewer, over to your desktop. You hold Command while dragging it off your dock, and it moves the application over to your desktop. Okay, so that's cool.

And another thing with Command is, what if you're holding Command down? You can drag anything in the top menu bar that Apple puts there by default, that you can put there, um, that Apple made. You can hold Command and drag it around, like the Time Machine thing. But this thing for Screen Flow, I can't hold Command and drag it around; it doesn't work.

But everything else, I can hold Command and drag. Um, so that's cool.

And, um, finally, our last trick, which is pretty cool, this is the coolest thing in my opinion, is an awesome minimize effect. So right here, um, okay, I have my Macintosh HD, and say here's the window I'm going to do a cool effect to it.

So first of all, you want to open up your Terminal application, and this is important. Type "kill all Dock" with a capital D in Terminal, but don't hit enter. Now click on the Finder window, hold down Shift, click minimize, and really fast, go back to the Terminal window and hit enter.

So that way, we ran the "kill all Dock" program, um, just as Macintosh HD, this window was minimizing, and we can actually drag this window around, but it's going to have this cool effect to it. Um, to get rid of the effect, just press Command M, and it'll finish up minimizing. Then click it again, and it'll come back.

Um, so that's how to make a cool minimize effect. So I showed you how to drag things off your dock, how to move, arrange, and sort your icons and align them better, and how to move things in your menu bar around.

Um, if you go into an application, say you want to take a screenshot of that application, let me just type my password.

Um, normally, what you do is press Shift, Command, 4, and then drag your mouse around the window. But you can just press Shift, Command, 4, hit the space bar, then it'll be able to select the window itself.

Um, so I can select the top menu bar, this window, the Finder, the desktop thing, even works for your dock. Let me just unhide my dock. See, I can take a plain old screenshot of my dock, and I'll just do that.

And you can see right here, it's a screenshot, and it's the real dock, and it's transparent because it just took a screenshot of the dock window. And that's actually a way to get a good screenshot of your dock.

Um, here's the Safari window, so that's pretty cool.

So, um, that's a few tricks and tips on your Mac. So, thank you for watching Mac Heads One. Subscribe, and goodbye!