Having an Apple Mac computer at hand means having access to it. a powerful tool this will be very useful in a number of missions. However, while the operating system is very intuitive and easy to use, there is a lot to know.

There are a few tricks to help you Discover many of the “hidden” treasures and as a “Pro” user you should take advantage of them. It doesn’t matter if you are a graphic designer, application development or any profession in the digital field, with these tips You will increase your productivity. At the same time, you will save time during your transactions. daily work will be easier.

What a Pro user should know about Terminal

Terminal is an application Mac system login that is hardly visible to the user. It is also a different way to access operating system settings using commands. For these reasons and more, it is important to know him well and learn to deal with it.

How to start terminal

• Via search engine (or Finder) Tap on the Utilities folder for you to open.
• find Terminal application and click to enter.

Pro user access Terminal on Mac with the help of Spotlight

but you have one second option:

• Press Command key and spacebar To bring up Spotlight.
• once there type terminal and double tap popup result.
• Then, a window where with a white background User name The name of the Mac, in addition to the name of the computer. There will also be an empty box showing where to place the text of the commands you will execute.
• Type or paste the command at the terminal.
• As soon as you enter the command you have to back to running.
• If you want to exit the application, you need to go to the application and Choose Exit Terminal.

Managing the Terminal application will open many doors for you to become a true Mac “Pro” user.

Trick to prevent Mac from “sleeping”

do you distinguish yourself to multitask, those who work at the computer and read the printed documents or take advantage of the nights for extensive downloads? in these cases Your Mac will need the most collaboration and you won’t let him sleep.

There is an easily accessible option for this so you won’t have to worry about it.

• Start at: Terminal application and type “caffeinated”.
• Later on press return.
• your mac configured to be active indefinitely.
• Now to finish, you can cancel order With the Control-C command in the open Terminal window. You can do it too Closing the terminal window.

One phrase can keep your Mac awake indefinitely

Another way to disable this “always on” mode setting a time limit. In this case the command would be caffeine -T 150000 so your Mac would stay awake for 150k seconds or 250 minutes. When the time expires, it is disabled. always active mode. you can change the time changing the number of seconds in the command.

Enhance your screenshots like a Pro

if you have seen shadow on bottom and right In screenshots of an open window, you should know that this is an effect that macOS includes. And if you ever wondered how you can delete We show you two commands to get from terminal.

Take clean screenshots with just two commands

• opens terminal.
• copy and paste or type the command: defaults com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool TRUE.
• Copy and paste or write the command: killall SystemUIServer.

these actions will prevent the shadow from appearing. In case you want to reverse the instruction, you will repeat the procedure:

• opens terminal.
• copy and paste or type the command: defaults com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool FALSE.
• Copy and paste or type the following command: killall SystemUIServer.

Rename your Mac screenshots

there is an easy way customize the name of each capture your screen. A) Yes you will avoid saving them with default name macOS assigns each

• keep opening terminal.
• write the command: defaults com.apple.screencapture name is “Capture”.
• Change the word “catch” with personalized name according to your preference.
• Then place to command: Killall SystemUIServer.

It’s very easy to customize the name of each screenshot on Mac

Looking forward, new screenshots will start with the selected title and it will end with the date and time.

To return to the initial settingsjust copy and paste the following command: * com.apple.screencapture name is “Screenshot”.

Then:* Killall SystemUIServer.

Screenshots of your Mac with custom location

To prevent screenshots from continuing to pile up on the Mac’s desktop, change default location:

• while you are there in terminal type: defaults writes defaults writes com.apple.screencapture location.
• Later on press enter.

a practical example Could be: defaults com.apple.screencapture location Type ~/Desktop/screenshots/ (or whatever folder name you prefer).

A) Yes you can do it with another route you prefer

As you can see, managing Terminal correctly will open many doors for you. a true Mac “Pro” user.