Mac Tips and Tricks

Enjoy these great Mac tips and tricks from Austin MacWorks:

• Hold the Option key and press any of the Brightness, Mission Control, or Volume buttons to bring up the respective System Preferences panes.
• Your Dock can be resized by clicking and dragging the line between the applications/folders.
• Command+Shift+3 creates a screen capture of your entire screen, Command+Shift+4 allows you to select a portion of your screen to capture.
• Right-clicking and selecting “Get Info” (or the hotkey Command+i) on an application, file, or mounted drive gives the option to change its icon. Simply drag another picture over the existing icon in the “Get Info” window. Changing the icon in non destructive – pressing delete after selecting the new icon will reset the icon to it’s default state.
• Holding Command+Option while selecting an application window will hide all other application windows on your current desktop.