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Tips for Mac Users

Apple always focuses on the principle of "user friendly", so there are always less detail instructions provided for their products. However, there are still a lot of easily overlooked tips because of their inconspicuousness. In the article below, I will give you an introduction on several practical skills which will not be written into the Apple manual so as to give you a more easy way to use them.

Note: Some of the tips below may use the Mac Terminal application, which can be found in "Finder - Applications - Utilities". By the way, if you want to import videos to iTunes on your Mac, you should first ensure that your videos are comply with the iTunes supported formats. If compatible, then you can directly drag the videos to iTunes directly for importing. If not, you can just turn for help to the Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which will assist you to convert any formats videos to iTunes friendly formats easily.

Practical Tips for Mac Users - Volume Adjustment

When you make volume adjustment in your Apple system, you will hear the noises of "biu ~". This kind of sound is really annoying, and sometimes it may becomes an noisy which will disturb the others. Do you want to eliminate it? Actually, the sound can be easily cancelled easily by holding down the Shift key when you are using the volume control keys.

Practical Tips for Mac Users - Create Clean Stacks Scrolling List

If you often use the system's capability of Dock and Stacks, perhaps you would like to see a newer and cleaner Stacks scrolling list. Then you can run the Terminal and enter the following command: defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES. At this time, a new list of Stacks would be activated, and then enter the following command: killall Dock. This command will restart the Finder process and then you can see the new Stacks rolling list.

Practical Tips for Mac Users - Modify the Window Size

The Lion comes with better operation for users to modify the window size. You can hold down the Shift key at the same time when you drag the window size to keep window aspect ratio. And hold down the Option key can made the center be fixed center so that you can change the window size by stretching from the four vertices.

Practical Tips for Mac Users - Secure Empty Trash

When you empty the Trash, you do not delete anything actually. In principle, you just tell your machine that the space that once been taken up was available now. This means that other people may recover the files that you do not want to let him / her to know with the some specific solution. The following tips will help you to delete the data on your Mac completely. It is so easy that you only need select and tick the "Secure Empty Trash" option from the "Finder" menu.

Practical Tips for Mac Users - Open Specified Set

When you try to adjust the brightness or volume only, you may be confused by the System Preferences which was filled with icons. Actually, there is a quick and easy way to open your specific set. You just need hold down the Option key, and then press the appropriate function key to open your preferred set. For example, if you want to change the sound settings, hold down the Option key while you press the volume control keys on the keyboard. Then the sound settings panel will directly open.

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