Tweaking Apps
In this tutorial let us see the steps for removing apps from Mac startup.
Now after restarting Mac, the app will not open automatically.
This tutorial provides the steps for making a specified WiFi network as a preferred network on Mac. This is quite useful when you have multiple Wi-Fi networks at your work place or home and you want to set a preferred order.
Now you can set preferred order by dragging and dropping the network.
Here are steps to recover Firefox passwords from Time Machine backup on Mac.
Now all your saved usernames and passwords for Firefox will be available on your Mac.
Hidden files and folders are by default not shown on your Mac. Here are the different ways you can show hidden files and folders.
Terminal
And if you want turn off this option this change true to false, defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles false
Keyboard Shortcut
Navigate to the folder you want to see the hidden files and folders and type “Cmd + Shift + .“. And to turn off press the same keyboard combination again.
Finder
If you want to see the hidden library folder then follow the given steps.
Mac users can turn on/off Wifi using option available as part of the Menu bar.
Add quick action in Automator app
Launch Automator app on your mac and choose Quick Action.
Choose action as “Run Shell Script” then set Workflow receives to “no input” and set it to run for for any application and select an image for your action.
Then under the run script window add the following script.
set_wifi_on_or_off() {
networksetup -getairportpower en${n} | grep ": ${1}";
if test $? -eq 0;
then
echo WiFi interface found: en${n};
eval "networksetup -setairportpower en${n} ${2}"
return 0;
fi
return 1;
}
for n in $(seq 0 10);
do
if set_wifi_on_or_off "On" "off"; then break; fi;
if set_wifi_on_or_off "Off" "on"; then break; fi;
done
You can test the above script using “Run” option and check if Wifi settings turned On or Off based on the current state. Save this quick action by providing a name as “Wifi”
Assign a keyboard shortcut for quick action
Launch Keyboard preferences using System preferences and navigate to Shortcuts tab.
The newly added Wifi quick action will be available under Services. Now assign a keyboard shortcut for this action.
Note :- Make sure to select 3 letters or more keyboard combination for your shortcut. Sometimes other apps might be using the same set of key combination and this would prevent launching the Automator action.
If you are using Apple iCloud, the folder sizes are not shown by default when they are not downloaded to your Mac. Doing the following will show all the folder size whether they are downloaded or present only in iCloud.
Now the Finder should show all the folder size even if they are present in Cloud only.
One of the common error that occurs in Xcode is “Error were encounted while preparing your device for development. Please check the Devices and Simulators Window.” I have noticed this error after Mac OS update or Xcode app update Trying the following
Sometimes after restarting the device you might see the following “iPhone is Busy: Making iPhone ready for development”. Give some time for the device after a restart, this might fix the problem.
If you have come across these during any other scenarios, please share them in the comments section. Thank you.
Microsoft Word users can add line numbers to a word document using the options available as part of Page Layout menu. In this tutorial we will see the steps for adding line number in Word 2013 and Word 2011 for Mac.
Word 2007 Word 2010 and Word 2013
Word 2010 allows users to add line numbers to a word document. This can be done using the Page Layout menu option. For example if you have the following text in your document and you want insert line numbers for each line then you use this feature.
To add line numbers for above paragraph, from Home menu click the Page Layout menu option and then navigate to Page Setup section.
In the Page Layout section, click the drop down arrow next to Line Numbers menu option. This would display the following menu options.
Now select Continuous from the list available menus and this would insert the line numbers in the Word document as shown below
The other line numbers options includes
Word 2011 for Mac
Step 1: Open the document for which you want to add line number.
Step 2: Click Layout menu and navigate to Text Layout section.
Step 3: Now click the Line Numbers option under Text Layout. This should display the following drop down list.
Step 4: Select Continuous from the Line numbers drop down list to add line numbers. You can also customise Line numbers by use other options in the list.
If you are looking for advanced line number options then click More Line Numbering.
If you just want to find out the current line number while editing a document then you can use line number option available as part of status bar for this purpose.
Word 2007, Word 2010 and Word 2013
Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2010 provides option to display the line numbers in a word document. This would be a useful feature when you want to restrict your content based on the number of lines written in the document. If the status bar does not show the line numbers, then right click on the Status bar and select Line number.
After selecting Line Number option in the Customize Status Bar context menu, the status bar would display the line number as shown below.
Word 2011 for Mac
Word 2011 for Mac does not support the display of line number in status bar. This option is available in Window’s version of Microsoft Word but not in Mac OS X.
Also See: How to auto populate random sentences in Word 2010