10 Helpful Tips for MacBook Users

If you are using a MacBook, you will find it very fast and powerful. It gives you a closed system and very cool user interface, and gives you an easy way to get access to your files directly. You may have used the computer so well that you can fully control the computer, but there are still many helpful tips for using the Mac computer. 10 tips have been selected and introduced in the following post, if you are new to Mac computers, these tips will also be helpful in your daily life.

Tip1: Take Advantage of Keyboard Shortcuts

MacBook Provides many keyboard options for the users, and it can be helpful in many aspects. You are allowed to use Command key plus character keys and number keys to do things without using mouse. For example, you can take screenshot by clicking “Command + Shift + 3 and send the screenshot to the clipboard. Other options are listed in detail in the manual about using keyboards on MacBook, so please take a look if you want to get well-knowledge about the options of the keys.

Tip2: Remote Control of the Mac Computer

Controlling a Mac computer across the Internet will bring you much convenience. There are many apps on th4 Internet, such as LogMeIn, Back to My Mac and so on. When you want to start a download, or check the events on your Mac. When using these remotely-control apps for your Mac computer, you should make sure that the Mac computer is connected to Wi-Fi connection.

Tip3: How to Type Exotic Characters

If you want to type a é on your Mac, how can you do that? As a matter of fact, you need to type Option + E and E again to get é. On OS X 10.7 or later, you will get the character by holding down E until you get the one you need. When you are using an app on your Mac, you can go to the Edit Menu of the app, and then you will find “Special Characters” at the bottom. In the list, you will always find the symbols and characters you need.

Tip4: Invert the Screen Colors

When you not able to see your screen clearly, or want to rest your eyes after staring at the screen for a long time, you can invert the screen colors. Before doing this, you should go to “Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Accessibility”, and check “Invert Colors”. Then you are able to invert the screen colors by holding Command + Option + Control + 8.

Tip5: Share Texts with Friends

The text, any you are seeing on your computer, can be shared with friends. You only need to choose the texts you want to share, and right-click the highlighted texts, then choose “Share”. Now you can choose to share the texts via email, messages, twitter or Facebook.

Tip6. Delete Texts from Left to Right

Sometime, when you are using your Mac to type texts, you will want to delete the words from a certain position to avoid the previous word being deleted. Then you can hold fn + delete to delete the texts from left to right.

Tip7: Change Your Views

When you are browsing any Finder window, you can hold Command+1 through Command+4 to switch between different views. You can view the window from a grid layout to CoverFlow, which is all up to you. With this trick, you will get a better visual experience when using your MacBook.

Tip8. How to Make You Icons Bigger

When using Finder, you can click Command + J, or go to View > Show View Options, to change the size of your app icons. You can preview the changed icons after manually adjusting the size, and you can get the best for you within seconds.

Tip9: Find the Location of a Saved File

If you’ve downloaded a file but can’t find the position of the downloaded file, you are able to use Spotlight to find the file. If you don’t want to use Spotlight, you can right-click the top of the window of the application, and then you will see the extract position of the file.

Tip10: Share a DVD Drive over Wi-Fi with Remote Disc

The Mac computers with no DVD drives now are given a feature called “Remote Disc”. With this feature, you are able to enjoy the movies on your Mac computer even if it doesn’t have an optical drive.

I hope these tips about Mac computers may provide you some help when you are using your Mac computer.