Basic Mac Tips How to Change Dock & Menu Bar preferences

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On your Mac, use Dock System Preferences to change the appearance of the Dock, and to

select items to show in the menu bar and in Control Center.

To change these preferences, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Dock & Menu Bar.

Size: Drag the slider to change the Dock size.

Magnification: Magnify icons when you move the pointer over them. Drag the slider to choose the magnification size. Position on screen: Choose to locate the Dock along the left, bottom, or right edge of the screen.

Minimize windows using: Choose the visual effect used when you minimize a window.

Double-click a window’s title bar to: Click the pop-up menu to choose what

happens when you double-click the title bar of an app window:

minimize: Minimize an app window to

the Dock.

zoom: Expand a window to fill the

space between the Dock and the menu bar. If the Dock is along the side of the screen, the window fills the space below the menu bar and to the side of the Dock.

Minimize windows into application icon: Minimize an app window to the app icon in the Dock. If the option is deselected, the window is minimized to an area in the Dock.

Animate opening applications: Make icons bounce when you open apps. Automatically hide and show the Dock: Hide the Dock when you’re not using it. To see the hidden Dock, move the pointer to the edge of the screen where the Dock is located.

Show indicator for open applications: Show a small dot below an app’s icon in the Dock when the app is open.

Show recent applications in Dock: Show recently opened apps (if they aren’t already included in the Dock) toward one end of the Dock.

Automatically hide and show the menu bar: Select the checkbox to show the menu bar only when you move the pointer to the top of the screen. To always show the menu bar, deselect the checkbox.

Add application items to the Dock: Locate item in Applications folder and drag icon to the dock. Reposition the item by click and drag it to the desided location in the Dock.

Remove item from the Dock: Click and hold on the item to be removed; drag it off the dock onto the desktop, still holding until you see the “Remove” indication. Let go and it disappears.

This does not remove the application from the Applications folder on yur Mac. Or you can click on an item, without dragging it to the desktop, and hold until you see the dropdown list. Slide the mouse to the “Optoions” and choose from that list.

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Benj Edwards, Howtogeek.com When you shop on Amazon, it’s important to remember the

company also acts as a middleman for independent, third-party businesses. Most of these are trustworthy, but some sell counterfeit goods and items that aren’t as described. It’s important to know where a product is coming from before you click that Buy button.

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How to Export Your Google

Photos Library

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Google Photos keeps your pictures and videos backed up online. But to save your moments in case of an accident or to free up cloud space, you should still periodically back up your Google Photos library locally. Here’s how to do that.

How to Access Accessibility

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Control Center on Mac

Apple includes accessibility features in its devices that help users with vision, physical, and motor impairments. Some settings, like “Reduce Transparency,” can help everyone. Here’s how to quickly access accessibility features from the Menu Bar or Control Center on Mac.

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consolidates all the system controls in one neat drop-down menu. But there are some controls like “Wi-Fi,” “Battery,” and “Sound” outputs that you still might want to access from the menu bar.

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the checkmark under any Home screen to hide it (or tap an empty circle to add a checkmark and show that Home screen). To save your changes, tap Done. As a bonus tip, notice that swiping on that lozenge of Home screen dots is now a quick way to navigate between the Home screens.

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With iPadOS, you have to remember that it shares most of its capabilities with iOS. So if it seems that iPadOS 14 doesn’t have as many major new capabilities as iOS 14, that’s not quite fair—many of iOS

14’s new features also appear in iPadOS 14. You’ll get pinned conversations in Messages, cycling directions and city guides in Maps, privacy reports and translation capabilities in Safari, and much more. Sadly—and oddly—missing from iPadOS 14, however, are iOS 14’s App Library and Home screen widgets which I have found essential in iOS14.

The must-try new feature in iPadOS 14 for those with an Apple Pencil is Scribble. In the past, the Apple Pencil has been limited mostly to particular apps, and many of them have leveraged it more for drawing and painting than writing. No more—with Scribble, anywhere you can type, you can handwrite with your Apple Pencil. That means you don’t have to keep flipping back and forth between your Apple Pencil and the keyboard. When you first use your Apple Pencil with iPadOS 14, it will give you a quick Scribble tutorial, but it’s easy to ignore or dismiss accidentally. Happily, you can get it back in Settings > Apple Pencil > Try Scribble.

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Scribble’s handwriting recognition is pretty good—vastly better than the days of the Newton and the Doonesbury “egg freckles” cartoon from 1997—although its accuracy does improve with the legibility of your writing, much like Siri’s recognition improves when you speak clearly. I have some of the world’s worst handwriting, My third grade teacher made me print all the time instead of cursive because my writing was so illegible. I was a Newton fan and loved the handwriting recognition, Scribble is generations better!

You shouldn’t have to adjust how you write too much, since Scribble accepts both printed characters and cursive writing, and even a mix of the two. Where it really shines, though, is in the ways it lets you edit your text when mistakes do happen, either due to its recognition or you changing your mind about what you’ve entered.

To try Scribble, bring up any app with a text field, such as Maps, with its search field. Instead of tapping in the search field and typing, simply write your search terms in the field with the Apple Pencil. (It’s OK to rest your hand on the screen—iPadOS is good about ignoring input from your hand when you’re using the Apple Pencil.) As you write, after you finish a word or two, Scribble will convert your words to text. (Apps do need to support Scribble, so it may not work in older apps.)

How you enter text into text-oriented apps varies a little by app. In Notes, when you tap the pencil button in the upper-left corner, and in Pages, when you tap the screen with your Apple Pencil, a toolbar appears at the bottom, and you have to tap the icon of the Apple Pencil with an A on it to enter Scribble mode.

Notice that when you’re writing, another floating toolbar appears, likely at the bottom of the screen, although you can move it. The actions available in the toolbar depend on the app you’re using, so when handwriting in a search field, the toolbar will likely contain a Search button that you can tap to execute the search, much like pressing Return on a keyboard. When handwriting in Mail, the toolbar provides formatting options, controls for inserting attachments, and more. You’ll also often see a left-pointing Undo button, which is useful if you accidentally delete or replace some text while writing.

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So how can you edit text you’ve entered? Here’s what you can do:

Delete a word: Scratch it out with an up-and-down motion. Insert text: Touch and hold where you want to create some

space, and then write in the space that opens.

Join or separate characters: Draw a vertical line between the characters. Think of the act of drawing a vertical line as deleting

a space (joining) or inserting a space (separating).

Select text: Either draw a circle around the text or draw a line through it. You can extend the selection by dragging from the beginning or the end of the selected text. To select just a word, you can also double-tap it, and to select a paragraph,

triple-tap it.

Replace selected text: In case it’s not obvious, after you select some text, just write more (anywhere there’s space) to replace what you have selected.

We won’t pretend that using Scribble with the Apple Pencil will necessarily be faster than typing, particularly when using a physical keyboard. But it may be more fluid and intuitive, if you’re already using the Apple Pencil heavily, to use it for short bits of text when you would otherwise have to tap the letters in one at a time or set the Apple Pencil down to type. Of course, the converse is true too—if you’re typing on an external keyboard, you won’t want to pick up your Apple Pencil just to edit text.

If, after all this, you decide that you find Scribble intrusive, you can disable it in Settings > Apple Pencil. But do give it a try and see if it fits with how you like to use your iPad.

(Featured image by Salomé Watel on Unsplash)

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battery status menu even when it’s plugged in. That’s normal, and it’s nothing to worry

about. Of course, if you regularly see that message, it’s a hint that you may not be using the proper power adapter and cable or that the power source isn’t delivering enough juice.