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Alfred or Spotlight – Finding A File’s Location

June 28, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 1 Comment

Why Would I Want To Know This? This guide is inspired by a reader question as well as a recent discussion I had about why I use the application Alfred. The question came to me as "I am using Spotlight to find files and while it will let me open them, I can't figure out where they are or how to actually get to the file on my computer. Can you help?" I got to work … [Read more...] about Alfred or Spotlight – Finding A File’s Location

How To Work With Multiple Running Applications

June 16, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 2 Comments

Why Would I Want To Do This? If you use your computer to do multiple things then chances are you are going to have different programs running to help you accomplish all that you need to do. A browser for Internet, maybe an email client, an RSS Reader, Word or Pages, a to-do list, all open and at the ready for you to use throughout your day. Being able to easily and quickly … [Read more...] about How To Work With Multiple Running Applications

How To Customize Your Finder

May 31, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 1 Comment

Why Would I Want To Do This? Your Mac's Finder is a window to the underlying files and folders that hold all the data that is stored on your Mac. It's always running and easily accessible from your Dock. In fact it's your Finder that is active if you aren't doing anything else. Like its name implies, you would use Finder to locate and manipulate files on your Mac and even … [Read more...] about How To Customize Your Finder

How to Disable Your Caps Lock Key

May 23, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 1 Comment

Why Would I Want To Do This? One of the biggest challenges I had when I first moved to Mac was accidentally pressing my caps lock key which I really never want to purposely do. I'm not sure if it's the keyboard layout or what but I hated finding it activated and then needing to revert it back and redo my typing. I decided that since I don't ever want to type in all caps that … [Read more...] about How to Disable Your Caps Lock Key

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