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If you do your work on a #Mac, these six #apps can help you get your #work done faster. And you don’t need to take time to download them or figure out if it’s worth the price — you already have these apps on your computer.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Stickies
1:55 Digital Color Meter
2:39 Dictionary
3:04 Screen Sharing
3:52 Grapher
4:59 Screenshot
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If you work on a Mac, these six apps can help you get your work done faster. And you don't have to
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worry about downloading them or figuring out if they're worth the price. You already have them
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on your computer. That's right. Today I'm going to tell you about six useful productivity apps
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that already come with your Mac, hiding in the applications and the utilities folders
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If you have the Finder open, you can just hit Shift-Command-A or Shift-Command-U
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to bring up these really quick. And I'm going to start with number one, stickies. Now
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there are a lot of people who I know and love, despite the fact that they cover their computer
0:34
monitor with sticky notes. And really, why limit yourself to the outer bounds? You can cover your
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digital desktop as well with little post-it notes using stickies. You just hit Command-N
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to bring up a new note. And you can go through Command-1 through 6 to change the color. You can
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put little snippets of text. You can drop in images. You can drag it around on the screen
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You can resize it. And even though all of your sticky notes are saved when you quit and reopen
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the app, if there's something maybe more permanent you put in there that you want to save elsewhere
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you can go to File, Export All to Notes. This will add them in the Notes app where it'll sync
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across all your devices. Or you can export it to a text file on your hard drive. Now, you may be
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wondering, what are all these weird buttons on the top? Why doesn't it have the standard, like
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three close, minimize, maximize buttons that every other Mac app has? Well, this is actually
1:22
because Stickies is, believe it or not, one of the oldest apps on the Mac that has remained
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virtually unchanged since its debut in Macintosh System 7.5 all the way back in the early 90s
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The square button on the left closes the window. The line button on the right is called Windowshade
1:43
Instead of minimizing to the dock, it rolls up the window into its title bar and it sort of
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stays in place, leaving this little stick on your screen. But for some reason, all these controls
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just stuck around as is. They never changed it. Number two, Digital Color Meter. If you're making
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a presentation or whipping up some graphics, you might want to get the exact color of something
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else on the screen. Now, you can take a screenshot, you can import that screenshot into a photo
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editing app, you can get the eyedropper tool, you can pick it up and then you can copy all the color
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codes, or you can just use Digital Color Meter. You just hover the cursor over what you're looking
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at, it'll tell you all the color codes, and you can just hit Command-L to lock it in place. You can
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hit Shift-Command-C to copy the color code, or you can do Option-Command-C to copy a little image of
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it. You can increase the sample size to a larger area of pixels and get the average value. You can
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switch between decimal and hexadecimal, and you can switch between color profiles like P3 and sRGB
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Number three, your Mac comes with a built-in dictionary, thesaurus, and Wikipedia reader. It
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is a lightning-fast way to look things up. You just hit Command-Space for spotlight, type in the
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first few letters, hit enter, and you start typing in a word and you'll instantly get results. And
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it's an excellent way to read Wikipedia. You have all the inline links, images, tables, and because
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it's inside the dictionary app, you can click on any word to get a definition. Number four
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screen sharing. If you have multiple Macs in your office, screen sharing will be your new best
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friend. It doesn't matter if your MacBook lid is closed or your Mac Mini doesn't even have a
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display connected. You can use screen sharing to remotely control your other computer from your
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own. You just need to make sure it's turned on first. On a newer Mac, that's in System Settings
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General, Sharing, and you can turn it on from there. On an older Mac, that's System Preferences
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Sharing. If it's a Mac on the same network, just go to Network in the sidebar, hover the mouse over
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the Connect button, and you'll enter in the username and password on that Mac, and then you'll instantly
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be able to control the screen as if it was your own. You can connect to a truly remote Mac across
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the internet by clicking the plus icon in the toolbar. You can enter in either the Apple ID or
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the hostname if you know that, and that'll send an invitation. Number five, grapher. If you need help
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on your math homework, be it algebra or calculus or whatever fresh hell requires a polar logarithmic
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graph, grapher can help you make 2D and 3D graphs with a wide selection of units and templates
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You type in your equation on the top, you hit this sigma button to add features like roots
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summations, and integrals. You can stack several different equations on the same graph by clicking
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this plus in the bottom of the sidebar, and you just click on any plot on the graph and click the
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inspector to edit the line color and the thickness. Now if you want to see the extreme of what's
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possible, I highly encourage you to look at the examples in the menu bar. There are some
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wild graphs in there. Now you may be wondering, why does Apple make a graphing calculator? It is a
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wild story that involves two contractors who had their projects canceled, who decided to keep coming
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into work, sneaking into the building, taking up vacant offices so they could work on this without
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any pay for six months, and sneaking it into the next release of macOS. It is crazy. You can read
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the full article over here. Number six, screenshot. Now you might remember that shift command three
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is the keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot on the Mac, or more likely you google it every time
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Well if you have space for one and only one keyboard shortcut in your brain, I want you to
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remember shift command five. That brings up the screenshot app, which gives you a user-friendly
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interface for all of the different kinds of ways you can screenshot and capture your screen. You
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have these simple buttons you can click for capturing the whole screen, a portion of the screen
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a specific window, and you have this little options menu that gives you all the different options that
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come with that. Like for example, you can take a screen recording with live audio from your microphone
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baked into the video. And yes, I wrote a full article on all of the features in the screen
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recording app you can find in this article here. So if you learned something from this video, be
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sure to like and subscribe. There are even more useful applications in there like FontBook that's
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an easy way to view and edit the fonts installed in your computer. Activity Monitor shows you which
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apps are taking up a bunch of system resources that maybe shouldn't. Disk Utility is an easy way
5:59
to manage the disks and storage attached to your Mac. I'm D. Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac
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