whenever i get a brand-new mac which is frequently i established it up just the means i like it and also in today’s video clip i’m mosting likely to share 10 modifications i make to mac os a few of which you could find beneficial hey there and also welcome back to mark ellis reviews thank you for subscribing if you have as well as if you have not just click the button below and just a fast note concerning my patreon subscription you’re supporting the network just by enjoying this video clip but if you do desire to obtain some extra content get accessibility to my dissonance web server which is exceptional by the way after that just click the web link in the summary currently you’re concerning to discover that i’m very little of a tinkerer when it comes to mac os i understand just how i like my mac arrangement however i don’t dive truly deeply into customizations i have actually been utilizing macs as my daily drivers for a minimum of ten years so over that time i’ve established an extremely specific listing of points that i do to a new mac to make it work for me so in today’s video clip i’m mosting likely to show you 10 of those tweaks that i make to mac os a few of them you might do currently as well as
several of them you may not even be mindful of so let’s just enter it i have a bit of an unusual partnership with the doc in mac os i still think it’s a better way of presenting your most utilized applications than the method that windows does it yet i would certainly never ever rather exercise where best to position it on the screen so for instance on the big ultra large screen behind me you can most likely see in fact i have actually obtained it on the the left hand side of the display whereas generally on my macbook air or the imac i have it near the bottom now this is a really personal thing there’s a team of individuals available that definitely promise by having the dock on the left or the right-hand man side that’s great they do it for various reasons generally to protect screen realty and on that big widescreen monitor that works however, for a typical mac i always keep it near the bottom however i constantly resize it i think when it initially appears package it’s just much too big primarily so i always make it a bit smaller sized or a fair bit smaller really relying on the dimension of the screen and likewise i turn on vehicle hiding which simply hides it from view when you’re not using it i don’t trouble with zoom or anything like that it’s simply concealed resized done i have
actually never understood why macs do not come with the macintosh hd faster way on the desktop by default so when you initially get a mac and you open up the cover or you turn it on you just get a blank desktop computer and also if you’re the type of individual who likes entirely blank desktops that’s excellent i like to maintain my desktop neat and tidy as well but i do originate from a windows history as well as home windows constantly had my computer system that was constantly the the symbol that went to the leading appropriate hand edge in older versions of mac mac os we utilized to have the same thing it would certainly say macintosh hd for whatever factor few years ago they simply eliminated it totally you can add it back in as well as to do that you just go into finder choices as well as in there you’ll discover that you can add it in i also turn on the snap to grid functionality which simply implies it maintains all of the icons and also documents as well as points that you leave on the desktop unavoidably in order and also well aligned yet having that macintosh hd symbol on the desktop computer remains the most common manner in which i enter the finder also though i recognize there is a finder symbol on the dark i don’t touch that a person very commonly i have a tendency to choose the desktop for whatever reason i believe it’s
the windows in me when you initially obtain a mac and you start opening up applications when you decrease those applications you’ll observe it puts them onto the dock but in their very own minimized symbol on the best hand side so for instance if you have five or six applications open and also you lessen them all you’ll have five or 6 added little icons appearing at the lower right on the dock i don’t obtain that that’s just unpleasant so what i do is turn on a feature called lessen home windows into application icon which you can find in dock preferences as well as you reach dock choices by ideal clicking the dock as well as what occurs after that when you click decrease it goes right right into the application symbol instead than onto its own little shelf under best hand corner of the dock and you can still obtain back to it you just click the app symbol and also it re re-emerges from the from the icon but it just maintains the entire dark tidier i’m fairly a large fan of finder in mac os yet i do discover it needs a few little tweaks simply to make it help me currently once again i’ve said windows a whole lot in this video clip currently i’m quite mindful of that yet i do assume the lengthy very long time i invested with windows if we’re chatting 10 15 maybe more years with home windows
in the past i assume that obtained me used to particular means that data were presented so whenever i obtain a brand-new mac i set 3 points as defaults in finder the first one is i established the sight to as a list so when you go right into a finder window you see every one of your data as well as folders as a list i don’t such as the concept of having them as big symbols i simply intend to see more of them on the display i after that establish the condition bar to always reveal which is the little bar that shows up at the base of finder as well as it tells you things like exactly how numerous files are in that specific folder that you’re in if you’ve obtained any kind of selected just how lots of you have actually chosen crucially it tells you just how much storage room is left on that drive the last point i perform with finder to modify it for my own use is to add my most used folders to the faves bar on the left hand side so when you enter into finder on the left hand side it will provide you an entire bunch of relatively or what mac os thinks you desire to gain access to regularly yet possibilities are you’ll have various other folders are the individual folders work-based folders that you intend to accessibility and also to include those folders to the favorites provide you simply drag them from the area right into the faves note it maintains them where they are they do not move literally from anywhere they get on the drive but it creates a
faster way to that folder or file if you like within the faves listing i use that all the time due to the fact that i’ve got probably four or five folders that i routinely enter into whether it’s to accessibility word documents or video clip data whatever it may be as well as it’s so useful that whenever i pull up finder regardless of where i remain in finder on the left hand side i can obtain those most used folders super valuable go back to the dock whenever you obtain a new mac apple will favorably include an entire number of default applications for you and also as discussed earlier i assume the dock is a terrific way to access your most made use of apps yet if those apps are signed up with by all type of other various applications that you never utilize it can simply get a bit overwhelming as well as it just looks a little bit untidy so the very first points i do is i eliminate applications from the dock that i very rarely or never use and also undoubtedly this is very specific to the manner in which i use macs the applications that you remove from it might be very various yet just to give you an idea i eliminate facetime yet i additionally get rid of things like mail calendar contacts web pages numbers and a few of the applications where i’ve either got a substitute for it in the kind of a third-party application or i just do not ever before use them like get in touches
with i never go right into get in touches with so that comes off the various other thing i do when i get a brand name brand-new mac is promptly turn off hey in this studio alone i have actually got about a thousand devices that will certainly go off if i claim hi as well as i just do not truly see the factor of it on the mac it behaves to have siri there although once more actually considering it i hardly ever make use of siri on the mac as well as by transforming off it simply suggests that there’s one much less gadget in the workshop that will certainly not go off if i ever utter those immortal words the next thing i do is set my default apps for mail and also schedules as well as i do not utilize the supply mail app in mac os as well as i don’t utilize the supply schedule application either so for email for example i utilize an application called trigger which is absolutely amazing as well as for my schedule i make use of sensational which is just as great but that does indicate that i don’t want mail to fire up for example if i begin a new e-mail message from one more application and also if i accept a schedule welcome or something i don’t want it to fire up the apple schedule application currently to transform
this actions unfortunately you need to go right into the app itself and also establish the default application that you ‘d like to use instead so for instance for mail i have to go into mail into mail’s choices and after that pick spark as the default e-mail application i’ll do the exact same thing for calendar with fantastical it’s just it’s not the end of the globe it’s simply a bit irritating that you need to go right into the application i would certainly much instead there was something in settings where you could just claim right here’s my default email application as well as below’s my default calendar application you can not you need to go right into them yet it is a single point when you have actually done it you’re done completed widgets i do include some widgets to mac os as well as i’ve taken the mickey out of widgets a fair bit just recently however they are quite valuable and also you often tend to find there’s a couple of that are truly useful for either for your job or for your pastimes or whatever it may be that you do currently as you would certainly guess apple does include some default widgets for you i eliminate many of them particularly the supplies app i do not understand that utilizes that and instead i just add 4 widgets so the first one is the fantastical widget which is really great just for an extremely quick glance at what you’ve got turning up on your calendar second one is the weather i then add two clock widgets which are readied to two various time zones that i tend to work with individuals in so i understand what time it is in their neck of the woods i’m a big follower of the apple watch i did exchange it awhile with a g-shock and i still currently return to the g-shock occasionally so i’m
not fairly as joined to this as i have been in the past yet whenever i use that g-shock watch and also i’m dealing with my mac there’s one feature i miss enormously from this watch and also that’s the capability for your apple watch to unlock your mac as well as it’s a lot easier than any one of the biometric protection that apple offers in terms of face id and also touch id which are both terrific however with the apple watch opening your mac you actually simply approach your mac make certain you come out of the screen saver and also it just opens you can find the setting in system choices safety and security and also personal privacy general it’s not switched on by default undoubtedly however if you have actually got an apple watch after that apple identifies that truth click the tick box i have actually had some problems in the past where for some reason it does not enable and also it doesn’t actually offer you a lot to go and also it just claims couldn’t make it possible for at this time or something yet 9 breaks of ten it will certainly make it possible for first time so if you have actually got an apple watch as well as you’ve got a mac as well as you have no suggestion that you can unlock it with your watch turn it on quickly it’s one of the most hassle-free way of entering into your computer system ever the last point i do when i set up a brand-new mac
and i can’t remember if this is established by default i do not think it is when you enter into the system choices basic look you get 3 options for the way that mac os looks essentially one is the conventional light version one more version is the dark mode variation and afterwards you’ve got auto now this is total individual preference you may intend to leave it in the kind of timeless light version of mac os that’s always been the point or you may be the type of individual who likes dark setting as well as you desire to leave it in dart setting all the time i think like every person when apple first presented dark mode in mac os i promptly switched to it as well as left it like that for ages but i did locate it a bit oppressive after a while equally it’s rather good at particular times of the day and also what i do i established it to car because that then essentially switches over from light to dark setting relying on the time of the day so in the night it switches to dark mode and after that a bit previously in the early morning it returns into light mode i simply like the truth that occasionally when i most likely to my mac later on in the night as well as open it it’s it looks different it’s in dark mode it’s just i do not recognize it’s a little bit silly however it simply offers me that it invigorates my my love for mac os a little currently i did say at the beginning of this video clip i was going to provide you 10 modifications those were the 10. There was one that i
neglected in fact as well as it connects to the trackpad so if i’m utilizing a trackpad either such as this one or the trackpad that you hop on the macbooks i set faucet to click which essentially means is that you don’t have to click to click you can simply tap your finger on it once more that is complete personal preference some individuals might locate that a little bit too delicate it most likely is another bit of a hangover from the home windows days when i used to use track pads on windows i i keep in mind doing the very same point on windows as well as for me it simply i’m simply made use of to touching instead of clicking i hope you found a few of those tips valuable be interesting to know if there were any type of there that you weren’t knowledgeable about if that is the case let me know in the comments similarly if you’ve obtained your very own mac os personalizations that i haven’t discussed and also you believe i’m losing out on something get associated with the remarks yet if you’re interested to see a little a lot more regarding exactly how i usage mac os keep viewing for a video clip that i made just recently which explores the reasons i utilize apple notes for a lot of my note-taking but up until following time thank you a lot for viewing and i’ll catch you in the next clip you
