This article covers 10 handy tips that can quickly help you handle most of the problems that OS X users encounter.
Although it is appreciated for stability, but like other operating systems, Mac OS X is not entirely 'immune' to problems - especially when users install many other applications.This article covers 10 handy tips that can quickly help you handle most of the problems that OS X users encounter.
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1. Force the application to exit
In the event that an application crashes, it is almost impossible to receive control commands in the window. Then you have only one option to force it to exit and then turn it back on. To do so, you can press Command + Alt + Ecs to open the Force Quit window (almost Windows Task Manager) and then select the application and press Force Quit . Alternatively, you can hold Alt , right-click on the app's icon that hangs on the Dock and select Force Quit .
After the application has exited, run again to check the stability. If the device still crashes, the possibility of this software is not compatible with the version of OS X you are using. Especially, Mac OS X's Force Quit feature is much more stable and efficient than Windows and also causes less trouble for you to restart the computer.
2. Fix errors related to Software Update
Mac OS X includes Software Update tool that allows automatic updating of supported applications. You can run Software Update from the Apple icon on the toolbar or access System Preferences . If this important tool of OS X gives an error message, you most likely have to check for and correct access-related errors (Permission). OS X itself has a system of permissions that regulates which files users can access. If the system fails, it will cause a chain malfunction for OS X applications - starting with Software Update, because it cannot run or install a new application.
To perform the check / edit Permission, open Applications >Utilities >Disk Utility and select the system drive (default name Macintosh HD), click the Repair Disk Permission button. After the test is complete, try running Software Update again. In most situations, this process helps correct errors. In fact, during the use of Mac, Permission fixes can also be viewed as system maintenance operations and should be done periodically.
3. Open the file using the specified application
If you get an error message that cannot open a file, but know that another application can open the file, hold Command + Alt and drag the drop file into the corresponding icon of the application (can be dragged into icons both on the Dock or in the Finder at will. This forces the application you choose to open the file; You can even force any application to try to open certain files even if they are not ' friends '.
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Another option is to click on the file you want to open, right-click and select Get Info (or use Command + I ), then select Open With and specify the application from the drop-down menu. You can set the application to be the default to open files of the same type by clicking the Change All button.
4. Empty the hard drive and increase RAM
After a while of using it, if you feel that your Mac is slow and requires more time to complete basic tasks, try checking your hard drive for available space (open the Get Info window as mentioned in section 3). If the space is less than 20%, you should conduct cleanup.
First, check the trash bin of OS X (Trash). In fact, many users switch from Windows to Mac, accidentally ignoring the fact that OS X can only transfer files to the trash when you delete in the Finder, but not completely like Windows Explorer. Many people are surprised that after a few months of use, the hard drive only has 0 bytes left and thinks that Mac has a problem.
Besides cleaning up Trash, common tricks like burning optical disc, replacing the hard drive, buying an external drive . should also be done. IPhoto, iTunes applications themselves also have a large database. In addition to moving objects out, you can even transfer the library to an external drive (of course some small tricks).
Finally, consider upgrading RAM as much as possible. With the current OS X, the 4GB level is quite enough (not to say redundancy) with applications. If you regularly handle movies or 3D designs, you may need 8GB or more.
5. Release the optical disc stuck in the SuperDrive
If your optical disc is not removed from the SuperDrive by the Mac, try restarting the device and holding down the left mouse button to force all optical drives to release the disc. Alternatively, you can open Terminal ( Applications >Utilities >Terminal ) and then enter the command: drutil tray open , then press Enter .
Another situation is that external drives (both hard drives, memory cards, iPhone, iPods) cannot disconnect to allow you to unplug from USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt. In this case, it is best to turn off the computer, remove the device and then restart. This process helps the system to return to normal operation.
6. Find the lost file
Most users tend to organize documents into different folders on the Mac. However, after a while, when the number of files as well as folders has exceeded the threshold of a few thousand, finding an object located somewhere becomes . impossible. Fortunately, OS X's Spotlight search feature is effective. Its icon is present in many locations in OS X (usually in the upper right corner of the screen). You click on it and enter the information (can be part of the file name or content inside) and then use the filter (limit the search area, file type .).
In the Finder, you can use Command + F to activate a search, while Command + Spacebar will open Spotlight from anywhere. In addition to searching, Spotlight is handy in other tasks like quick launch of apps, calculations, and overall search. It can even look up the dictionary by executing search commands in the application's databases .
7. Restore admin password
Due to the high security features, OS X requires users to re-enter the admin password whenever software is installed on the system or updating applications. If you forget . trouble will happen. Of course, groping to enter 'similar' passwords to recall the correct password may work, but Apple has provided a utility that allows recovering administrator passwords. The process is as follows:
- You put the OS X installation disc in the optical drive of the computer and then reboot.
- Hold Alt key when the machine restarts to open the boot menu, select the corresponding optical drive.
- In the OS X installation environment, select Utilities >Reset Password from the toolbar and enter a new password.
- Restart the computer from the hard disk as usual and the new password will start working.
8. Request to recognize external monitor
In many cases, users plug in additional screens to the Mac, but OS X has no response. If you also fall into this situation, try using the Detect Display s button (in System Preferences >Displays ) to force Mac to find a way to identify the new screen. If it still doesn't work, restart the computer while holding down the key combination Command + Alt + P + R and until the typical Mac boot sound appears. This action disables the PRAM battery to restore default parameters - including monitor connection parameters. In addition to helping to recognize the external monitor, the default PRAM recovery can also be used to handle many other problems - especially peripherals related issues.
9. Restore disconnected Wifi connection
Nothing is annoying because you cannot access the wireless network even though you have tried everything. If the WiFi connection is suddenly disconnected, check if the device's Airport is turned off accidentally. Also, go to System Preferences >Network , open AirPort >TCP / IP and click Renew DHCP Lease to see if the error is gone. Of course, you always make sure that you are in a WiFi range that is strong enough to use. The Airport icon on OS X's toolbar will signal this with notification bars. Sometimes, turning off the Internet and turning it on again can also solve the connection problem because many applications at the time of connection or even OS X's Airport itself may have problems.
10. View WMV files
Currently, you may encounter numerous movie formats when accessing the Internet. Of course, like Windows, not all formats can be viewed comfortably on the Mac. A common example is files .
WMV - which is Microsoft's own. To solve this problem, download the free Flip4Mac 'codec' and install it on your device. Flip4Mac allows QuickTime Player to view WMV files well. In addition, a more efficient way is to download VLC Player for Mac, which helps you see even more 'strange' files. VLC is also something that should be available on all Mac users.
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With Mac OS X El Capitan (which arrived on Macs on 30 September 2015), Apple is focusing on performance and introducing only a handful of new features – but the feature set makes up in quality for what it lacks in quantity.
Among the enhancements in the next version of Mac OS X there will be tweaks to the interface, new full-screen views, changes to the way you arrange all the windows on your desktop, a smarter Spotlight, and changes to the Safari, Notes and Photos apps.
Start discovering 23 amazing tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of Mac OS X El Capitan’s new features and improvements!
Cursor locator
Our favourite new feature might just be the new way to find your cursor.
Just shake your mouse, or wiggle your finger on the trackpad: it’s what we all do instinctively, but doing so will now make the cursor grow in size momentarily so you will have no trouble spotting it.
How to stop your cursor from getting bigger
For many of us one of the most useful new features in El Capitan is the way that you can easily locate your cursor by rapidly rubbing your track pad or moving your mouse quickly, as mentioned in the previous slide.
This is particularity useful if you have more than one monitor and lose your cursor often.
However, some people need to move their cursor rapidly for other reasons, perhaps when using illustration apps.
It is possible to disable this cursor behaviour if you need to. Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and deselect Shake mouse pointer to locate.
El Capitan Exposé
An older Exposé behaviour has returned to the Mission Control view.
In Mac OS X Yosemite, when you press F3 (or the key that represents Mission Control on your keyboard – if it’s a Mac keyboard it will be marked with three small boxes), documents associated with apps are gathered together, overlapping each other.
In El Capitan things are a little simpler and clearer – and in our opinion, better. You’ll see minimised views of all the documents you had open so you can see and select the one you want.
Split View in full-screen mode
An improved full-screen mode lets you have more than one app open at once.
Clicking and dragging the green window-resize button activates a new Split View that fills the screen with two apps at once; users can choose the amount of space given to each app.
Note that some apps won’t work with Split View. Apparently the Office apps are not compatible with it.
Hide the Menu Bar
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A new option in System Preferences > General allows users to ‘Automatically hide and show the menu bar’ in a similar vein to the way users can choose to hide the Dock.
This will be especially beneficial to users of smaller laptops such as the 11-inch MacBook Air or the 12-inch MacBook, where every pixel counts.
Natural-language Spotlight
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Spotlight is also getting ‘natural language’ search. (Does this mean, incidentally, thatSiri may be coming to the Mac? We’re not so sure.)
This means you’ll be able to construct your search query in a more colloquial way, phrasing it in the sort of language you’d use in everyday conversation. For example: “documents I wrote in July” or “photos added today”.
Moving the Spotlight window
One of the biggest frustrations people had in Yosemite was the fact that the Spotlight window was fixed to the middle of the screen.
In El Capitan you can click on the Spotlight result box and move it around the screen. Simple but deeply gratifying.
Pin Tabs in Safari
In Safari you can ‘Pin’ favourite sites to the menu bar – a simple way of adding a shortcut to Facebook or YouTube.
Go to Window > Pin Tab.
How to tell which Safari tabs are playing audio
Safari will also identify which of your open tabs is playing audio, just as Chrome for the Mac has done for a while now.
Unlike in Chrome, it’s possible to mute the audio with a single click on that tab, too: click and choose Mute this Tab.
Add PDFs, URLs and maps to Notes
Notes will handle photos and PDFs, URLs and map locations as well as text.
To add a map location you need to click the Share icon and choose Notes, then you can choose to add the map location to the note of your choice. Double-click on the location in Notes to load up the map.
You will also be able to format that text, including an option that will turn a list into a checklist.
Viewing attachments in Notes
There’s a new attachments browser in Notes that you can flick through to find all the media, websites and other attachments you’ve added to the app from any of your devices.
Click on the icon that represents four small squares.
Swipe to delete in Mail
There are two new gestures in Mail that will be familiar to iOS users: swiping left to delete an email, and swiping right to mark it as unread.
You can also minimise an email you are composing, just as you can in iOS. And you can open multiple tabs when you’re composing emails.
New System Font: San Francisco
Don’t underestimate the significance of Apple’s decision to move the system font of OS X from Helvetica Neue to San Francisco. The system font is massively important to the way people experience an operating system.
Helvetica was designed before the computer, and while it’s a great font, its limitations are becoming more obvious over time. San Francisco has been designed with screens in mind, and small, high-resolution screens (such as the Retina display) in particular.
Smart suggestions in Mail
The Mail app has a new feature called Smart Suggestions. These scour your mail messages for names and events and prompts you to add them to your contacts or calendar.
There had previously been a more limited feature in OS X that recognises email addresses and other contact information, but Smart Suggestions is vastly improved.
Third-party extensions in Photos
As a replacement for the aging iPhoto, Photos has won many admirers. Although Photos has had more than a few detractors in its own right, especially among more advanced photographers.
Support for third-party extensions in Photos is due alongside OS X El Capitan, and they will be sold via the App Store. Extensions expand the functionality of Photos tremendously, and they were a popular feature in iOS 8.
Metal: Making your Mac faster
Another feature that’s massively important but easy to overlook is Metal, Apple’s new graphics API.
Apple enables developers to offload graphics processing tasks to OS X without having to do the number crunching. The performance gains in apps like Photoshop and video games are tremendous.
Performance gains are said to be up to 40 per cent, according to Apple; some developers have claimed seeing speed gains of up to 70 percent compared with tests using its predecessor OpenGL.
Photos: Streamlined Faces features
One of the neater features from iPhoto that’s also present in Photos, but far too hidden, is Faces. The Faces feature learns what you and your friends look like, and then searches for them automatically in your photo collection.
In El Capitan, Apple has made the Faces feature more streamlined and more prominent. Thanks to the faster nature of Photos this will make Faces a much more central part of tagging your images.
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It’s also easier to update Location information in your photographs.
Public transport (transit) in Maps
Apple Maps now has a Transit mode. This displays direction information using public transport.
The new route options cover bus, subway, light rail, train and ferry directions.
Given that many of us in the UK use public transport to get around (especially in larger cities) it’s a welcome addition, but coverage remains limited for the time being.
London is covered, as are the following cities overseas: Baltimore, Berlin, Chicago, Mexico City, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington D.C. (And lots of cities in China.) We expect further areas in the UK and US to follow swiftly.
New two-factor authentication system
Apple is replacing the two-step authentication system, used by security-conscious types, with a new system called two-factor authentication.
Two-step (the current system) sends a code to your telephone whenever you log on from a new device. Even if another person has your password, they can’t log on without the code. There’s also a permanent security key that you’re supposed to print out and keep safe in case you lose your phone and password.
Two-factor authentication does away with all of this and uses a system where you use Apple devices, such as the iPhone, to approve authentication of other devices as you log in. It’s similar to the system used by iCloud Keychain to approve devices.
Find My Friends in Notification Centre
There’s a new widget for Find My Friends. This widget enables you to add Find My Friends to the Notification Centre.
Find My Friends is a helpful feature, especially if you combine it with Family Sharing, so you can see where all members of your family are. Being able to add it to Notification Centre makes it much more accessible.
Sort Notification Centre by apps
In El Capitan you can change notifications to group by app, which might make the list a little less daunting, and it certainly makes it easier to remove notifications you are’t interested in.
Go to System Preferences > Notifications and then beside Notification Centre sort order, select Recents by App.
All-new Disk Utility with refreshed interface
Disk Utility is an absolute stalwart of OS X, and an app that we have used on countless occasions to set up, manage and repair drives on various Macs.
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So we are delighted to see that Disk Utility has had a complete refresh for OS X El Capitan and now sports a whole new interface. The new look seems similar in style to the refreshed System Information app in Mavericks.
New-look spinning beachball
There’s a whole new beachball in El Capitan. The icon has had a visual refresh, and it’s much brighter and more obvious than before.
The wait cursor, unofficially known as the Spinning Beachball, Spinning Wheel of Death or SPOD, is the graphic used when the Mac is busy. It’s rarely a pleasant icon to encounter, and on modern Macs it typically indicates that something is going wrong (especially if it’s onscreen for more than a few moments).
It’s nice to see that even the unpopular icons get a little love.
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