Mac os tips

With many companies switching to remote work, files have to be signed and sent back digitally. If you have a Mac, you can easily insert your signature on soft copy documents on your computer. Open the document to be signed on its preview application. Select the pen icon and click create a signature from Built-in iSight. iSight, which is one of the top MacBook apps, captures your signature using the webcam. After signing your name on plain paper, hold it up to the camera following screen guides. The camera automatically extracts the signature and saves it in the system.

A sleeping mode is one of the many energy-saving features built on Mac computers. However, this option can be annoying when your computer keeps slipping into sleeping mode every few minutes. The standard way of adjusting sleeping schedules for a Mac is by using the energy-saving program, which is cumbersome. Alternatively, you can run Lungo, a program on your menu bar that gives you quick access to sleeping mode controls. With one click, you can prevent Mac from sleeping for either 10 minutes, four hours, or indefinitely.

To most people, it is impossible to run a Microsoft Windows OS on a Mac computer. The truth is, you can do it, and it is simple. Open the applications folder on your Mac, then click on the utility folder. Locate a program called Boot Camp and run it as administrator. Boot camp partitions your Mac’s hard drive by creating two slots; one for Mac OS and another for Windows OS. You get to choose how much space to allocate to each OS, but remember that the disk space allocated to one OS is not available to the other. After setting everything up, hit the partition button to kickstart the process. After partitioning, you will be required to install a Windows OS from a CD-ROM. You can run any version of Windows higher than Windows 7.

You all probably know the setting that disables that sound that's played when you change the volume through F11/F12. But sometimes I personally find myself wanting to be able to do both — changing volume with the sound and changing it without it (I can't be the only one‽) — but I'm too lazy to change the setting all the time… …and that's where I discovered this shortcut: ⇧F11 / ⇧F12!It does the exact opposite of what your current setting is. For example if you switched the sound off in setting, you can change the volume and also hear the sound with that shortcut. If you enabled the setting, it does the reverse.I don't know if this shortcut has always existed nor if it's already commong knowledge (if it is, I'm sorry) but i figured some of you might not know and could find it useful.