The MacMost Newsletter: Issue #606 August 13, 2020
Build an iPhone Shortcut To Turn On Do Not Disturb For a Custom Amount Of Time Learn how to create a Shortcut on your iPhone that you can activate with your voice to turn on Do Not Disturb. The Shortcut will then ask you for a number of miniutes and automatically turn off. You can also set it to activate silently as a Home screen icon.
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Watch at YouTube 15 Tips For Using Icon View In The Mac Finder If you use Icon View in the Finder to organize your files, here are some useful tips. You can place the icons where you want, or have them placed automatically by name, kind or time. You can also change the spacing and icon size, add more information to the file name and make other adjustments. You can also set a background color or image.
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Watch at YouTube 15 Tips For Using List View In the Mac Finder The Finder's List view gives you a sortable list of files and folders with columns of data such as date, size and kind. You can sort by the columns, add new ones, and arrange them. You can also navigate down into subfolders using the cursor or keyboard. Learn some little-known tricks for using List View.
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Watch at YouTube 15 Tips For Using Column View In the Mac Finder If you use Column View in the Finder to organize your files, here are some useful tips. There are many ways to resize or "right size" columns. You can navigate and even move files with the keyboard. There are also some preferences you can set.
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Watch at YouTube Building Your Own Cheap External SSD Drive For Your Mac If you want something faster than an external hard drive, and better than a USB Flash drive, you can build an external SSD drive with an SSD and an enclosure. I built a 256GB USB 3.1 external SSD for less than $70 that works great on my Mac. Learn how to build your own.
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Watch at YouTube Quick Tip: Mac Safari Picture-In-Picture With YouTube When playing a video in Safari on your Mac, you can Control+click on it and select Enter Picture In Picture. But this doesn't seem to work on YouTube videos. When you click on a YouTube video, you get a special context menu from YouTube instead of the default macOS one. The trick is to leave this context menu there without selecting anything, and then Control+click the video a second time to get the macOS context menu with the Enter Picture In Picture option.
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