Save time and trouble many times a day by installing Moom. It's the fastest, easiest way to move and resize windows. I use it all the time.
Don’t install the software that came with your printer
Apple makes it easy to set up a new printer, if you let them. Often there's no reason to install the software that comes with the printer.
Macs can type emojis too
It's easy to type an emoji on the Mac, because there's a giant palette of them that lets you simply double-click to insert one. Plus it's searchable.
Easy way to correct spelling errors
Fix spelling errors quickly via Control-clicking on misspelled words. Faster and easier than running the spelling check.
Collapse a bunch of folders at once
Quickly collapse all of the folders in a given window, with two keystrokes! Save time and impress your friends. Super easy and fast.
Move Mac files and folders to the Trash, from the keyboard
Delete an item from the keyboard! You'd think you'd use the Delete key, but you'd only be half right. The other half involves the Command key.
Save a step when emptying the Trash
Save two seconds by skipping the Empty Trash dialog box. Be sure you really want to empty it because they're not going to ask if you're sure.
Get dimensions of images via Get Info
There's more than one way to do this, but Get Info does reveal the size of an image, in pixels. Rather handy. Try it!
How to take stuff out of the Trash and have it go back where it came from, automatically
if you want to take something out of the Trash and put it back where it came from, you can do it in one step. Look for "Put Back" in the Finder's File menu.
Is that a lowercase L, an uppercase I, or the number 1?
Sometimes you're assigned a password automatically, and it's really hard to tell whether it's a one or an "L" or a zero or an "O." Here's how to figure it out.