Alerts and Banners
Toggle Between Open Apps
Take a Quick Look at Documents from the Finder Window
How to make a Screen Shot
Get a words' definition - Safari App
Share Site/Page - Safari App
Navigate Open Tabs - Safari App
Send Location Signal to Macbook Air
Set Default Application for document types
Toggle Display
Command + F1 to toggle the display from projector to laptop.
Alerts and Banners
If you have Alerts and Banners turned on and are doing a presentation etc and want to have the messages not show up during the presentation.
Click on the Notification Bar:
Scroll to top of the Navigation Bar content.
‘Show Alerts and Banners’ On/Off toggle.
To change overall settings for Alerts and Banners. Clickon Notification Bar.
At the bottom you will see a Gears Icon.
This Opens the Notification Center where you can modify existing settings.
Toggle Between Open Apps
When you have multiple apps open and you want to toggle from one app to another.
Press the COMMAND + TAB keys concurrently.
The Open apps will show up at center of screen, navigate with arrow keys.
Quick Look at Documents from Finder!
Quick Look.
Any document can be opened in Quick Look by pressing the Space Bar while you have the document selected in the Finder Window.
Make a Screen Shot
Take a screen shot on the mac.
COMMAND + SHIFT + 3.
To capture a specific portion of the screen in a snapshot
COMMAND + SHIFT + 4
you will get a crosshairs
select the area to snapshot
and when you let go of the mouse button, the snapshot is taken.
Find a word definition - Safari App
In Safari, if you are reading something and find a word you don’t recognize, you can get the definition quickly.
Simply, put the mouse pointer on that word, click COMMAND + CLICK and you get a list box with an option to ‘Look up …’ that word.
Or, put the mouse pointer on that word, click COMMAND + CONTROL + D and the definition comes up.
Share a Page - Safari App
Share – in Safari. If you click the Share icon in Safari
You have quick access to Bookmark a page, Email the page, Tweet or Facebook.
Also, you can ‘Add to Reading List’. This allows you the option to have the page info available even if the laptop is offline.
Navigate between Open Tabs - Safari App
If you use Safari and you have countless tabs open during any given session, there is an easy way to navigate between tabs.
Click on the Tab Viewer Navigation icon.
When you find the one you are looking for – click on it to open that tab.
Lost MacAir - play a sound on device!
Your Air must be ON and Online for the sound to play.
Also, you must be signed into iCloud and have iCloud enabled on the laptop, the process is as follows:
Step #1 - - Login, using your Apple ID and Password to iCloud Services
Step #2 - - At top center of screen - ALL DEVICES. Choose the Macbook Air device
Step #3 - - Click PLAY SOUND
**If No devices are found or you do not see the laptop then you are either not signed into iCloud or iCloud is not enabled**
**If the device is there but shows 'offline' the sound will not play until the device is turned on or comes online**
If you do not have iCloud enabled on the device, you can turn the services on (once you have located the device)
Step #1 - - Go to System Preferences
Step #2 - - Click on iCloud
Step #3 - - Login and Setup Cloud services using your MLTI Apple ID and Password
Set Default Application for Documents
Many of you have Pages and Libre Office on your devices. Pages will automatically set itself to be the default app for documents. You can change this though. Go to a Finder Window and locate any file with the .doc extension. Select (do not open) the file. On the Finder Menu, Choose FILE, GET INFO About half-way down it says 'OPEN WITH' - choose Libre Office from list of Applications and Click CHANGE ALL if you want all documents to open with Libre Office.
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