People seem to ignore the Help menu, especially more advanced users. However, I’ll often see users of complex applications spend an inordinate amount of time hunting through menus and submenus looking for a particular option. Perhaps you want to know if there’s a keyboard shortcut for a command.
Let’s take …
Hot corners are pretty neat and I notice a lot of people using them to Show Desktop (especially), but also to lock the screen or enter one of the Mission Control modes. But I also run into people that hate that they accidentally activate hot corners too often and they …
Whether it be user error or a bug, it’s definitely possible to lose data on iCloud Drive. If you keep important data there, personal or otherwise, it’s important to know a few things.
While Apple does backup iCloud Drive, the frequency may not suit you. A restore may also overwrite …
There are a number of possible reasons you may want to create a file of a specific size. For example:
I’m not spending £19 an Alfred for just this one purpose, but for its seemingly endless uses that improve productivity. In this example, I’ll create a shortcut to open Xcode projects and workspaces.
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Setup
Rather than write a script for something you may only need once, there’s an easy way to repeat a series of command-line commands. This works in bash and may in other shells:
while [ 1 ]; do <some command>; <some other command>; sleep <some delay in seconds>; done;
So, for …
It seems like whenever I want to write an if-then or case statement in bash, I spent an hour searching the web and end up finding 12 different suggested ways of doing it. I try them all and maybe one of them works if I’m lucky.
I happened to …
Mail offers some moderately powerful searching but it’s not always super obvious. Here are a few really simple things you can do:
Put a search term in quotes (“the owls are not what they seem”) to search for a phrase. Group two tokens to do a simple AND (must be …
Shell aliases are woefully underused. Painfully, I frequently see people do the following:
Aliases are super easy. Just open your ~/.bashrc file (or …
If you’ve ever had a bizarre problem in Xcode and you’ve given up hope, this post is for you. Some frustrating things you might see: