You probably would not be aware of the fact that your Mac has several buried treasures. Like a process of renaming the bunch of files and a full-on emoji keyboard. Mac is loaded with outstanding features and facilities, and few people have yet optimized its use. Mac has facilitated its customers with a well-featured series of laptops made by Apple.
It would not be wrong to assume users of Mac are loyal to their laptop brand and expect something new and special every time a new MacBook is released by Apple. You might have gone through almost all the features of a Mac if you have been using Mac for years or you are a tech fanatic, but most people have still not explored it completely. This article would enlighten you with some hidden features of Mac that you probably have missed.
Create a signature in Preview
Nothing is easier than adding a signature to your document in Mac. All you have to do is, open the document in preview then open the Annotation toolbar, select the create signature from the built-in iSight option by clicking on the signature button. You just have to follow the on-screen instructions in order to add a signature to your document.
Restoring Scroll Bars
Scroll bars are hidden in the Lion version by default and are only visible when a user starts to scroll the page. This turns out to be a little bit confusing hence many Mac users prefer to have the scroll bar on. If you want the scroll bar to be visible all the time, you can do it by changing the default setting. Just click on system preferences then go under the General category, select “Always” in the Show scroll bars option.
Built-in Emoji support
It is extremely easy and simple to add emoticons in Mac, the users are allowed to insert special characters due to its built-in emoji feature. Open the window which contains an amazing list of special characters. You can easily choose the emoticons and special characters that are required from this window.
AutoComplete of words
You might have faced difficulty in spellings while working on Mac, the Mac has the solution to this problem. The “Autocomplete words” feature in Mac helps to spell difficult words in a correct manner as you type in Text edit or iChat. Press Option + Escape or F5 to bring up an autocomplete menu, that would enable you to see a list of possible spellings to the word you typed. This feature provides ease when you are typing an official document.
Quick Duplicate Open File
There is a very common issue in Mac that many apps on Mac do not provide the facility of “Save As” to duplicate an open file. Do you know that you can achieve the duplication of an open file without accessing the File menu? Just click on the filename, you would see a menu of options, an option named “Duplicate” would appear, by clicking it you can replicate the file.
Hot Corners
This feature enables you to trigger certain events by just touching the corner of your screen. In order to get facilitated by this amazing feature, you have to go to System Preferences then desktop and screensavers, and just click on Screen Saver Tab in order to activate the hot corners feature. The amazing thing about this feature is that it allows you to launch a notification center, open applications, and disable the screensaver.
Turn Off Notifications
The “DO NOT DISTURB” toggle feature would be accessed by opening the notification center and scrolling down the side-loading bar. By turning it on you would not receive notifications for a day. With this feature, you can focus on important work without being distracted by the notifications pop-ups. You can even turn on the DO NOT DISTURB feature for a particular event or for a specific period of time.
Conclusion
There are some other hidden features as well that are not yet exposed to Mac users such as deletion of Apps using launchpad, preview files, close running apps, Speech-to-text conversion, and quick dictionary access. Look at this website in order to know more about Mac features such as copy and paste on Mac.