 Hey everybody. So how many people here went and saw Sal yesterday? Alright so I thought that was fantastic. I thought he did a great job and I really really enjoyed it. One thing you're going to notice is there's a little bit of my stuff that's actually gonna overlap with his but I think he went through it pretty quickly so some of the stuff where we do overlap I may still go through it and maybe reinforce what you learned yesterday. It's definitely not a duplicate talk but there's quite a few things in there where I was like hmm I'm gonna be telling them about that but I won't be skating and I don't have cool animations and I don't have the logo so you know you might want to just go to the casino now or something if you'd rather but anyway hopefully we'll have some fun here. So the title of this talk is Turbocharger Mac Productivity. The first 90% of this is gonna be all stuff out of the box that you can do today without spending a nickel and and get what you want and then the last part is actually I'm gonna spend some of your money but it's well worth it and I'll show you why so let's go ahead and get started. I guess I should have done that on the mic, huh? All right I showed you guys yesterday Slightchair.net slash no silicast. You might need the word presentations after that. I remember when I checked it at home I sat there staring at the screen trying to figure out where the presentations actually were so if you throw that in at the end you've got a you've got a fighting chance to get right to the presentations when I get them up. Again I don't promise that I'm gonna have that ready you know the day the ship lands or anything but pretty quickly after that within a week or two for sure. So I wanted to start with some random finder tricks and I'm gonna be flipping in and out as usual to the to the finder and so Sal had talked a bit about the ability to use Quick Luke and I wanted to do just a little bit of a quick thing here in just about with just about any application that you have in the finder if you press the spacebar you can see into the file you can click on different pages within the file see I use this every time Slightchair.net so you can walk through different pieces of a document and you don't have to open it to be sure it's the right one if you didn't want to open it you could open it in keynote or outsell before you can also forward it into other tools like mail and that sort of thing if I hit the spacebar again it's gonna go away I can go down to the next one and this is actually a video that I'm playing right now if I hit the arrow key it's actually gonna switch down to the next file which is a JPEG image so you can see I'm looking at PDFs I'm looking at JPEGs I'm looking at videos looking at keynote files you can look at just about anything you want with Quick Look. I use this absolutely all the time it's one of the things that drives me crazy about Windows is when I want to go use it and it's not there I might mention more than once that certain things drive me crazy about Windows but we'll try to keep it at bay. So I started talking about the app switcher and let me escape out of this and let's open up something else let's open up Obeen is my favorite word processor so now I've got bean open and I've got keynote open I'm gonna hold down the command key and hit tab and you can see up on screen that you get the different icons for the different applications so if I hit tab again I can go to the finder tab again go to bean I think if I hit shift tab it goes backwards through those same things so I'm flipping between the different the different applications just by holding down the command key and hitting tab. Oddly enough this is actual I'm gonna make fun of Windows of course but just in case you're a slider and you have to deal with Windows I'm also gonna tell you when it's something good that Windows does control tab on Windows does the exact same thing so if you're stuck in that environment let's go back to bean and let me open a second file so I've actually that might not work the way beans doing it in a tabbed environment let's go into keynote and let me open up another one of my keynotes will open up the one you saw yesterday so I'm gonna have two two different files open here if I do command tilde instead of command tab I'm switching between the two out the two open Windows within that application so that's kind of a neat way to just flip back and forth if you're trying to move stuff between two presentations like I did today so that one's kind of fun let's see let's go back here the South Tuck some about moving and copying files oh I do want to say one thing probably 32% of what I know about how to do it in my applications and Windows is because of Don McAllister his screencast online videos if you're not subscribed to them already you ought to be you definitely want to check them out but it's he has this amazing talent at finding things that I don't see even though I'm a pretty darn sophisticated user I still learn a lot from Don so one of the things I was gonna say was if you've got let's say on our desktop here we've got this productivity demo folder I'm gonna create another folder we actually put that at that level and I'm gonna take this presentation here I'm gonna hit command C and go over here and hit command V and I just copied the file it exists in both places I didn't know that for the longest time I mean maybe you guys all knew that one but that was that was new to me another thing you could do is if you hold this is what I definitely learned from Don recently I'm not sure this was already there option drag will copy a file rather than actually moving it so if I take this and I just drag it it disappears from there and shows up there and put it back if I hold down my option key now and I do the drag it stayed there and I just made a copy and Don said the way to notice whether you're doing it right is if you hold down the option key and when you drag it you see the plus button green plus that's what tells you that you're actually copying not moving so that one was worth the price of admission right right there you gotta love it let's see where I got next so this is where I'm gonna have some repetition with what what sales talked about yesterday I call it taming the left sidebar I use the left sidebar like crazy and so I know he went through the mechanics of it let's talk about some of the kind of things you might want to do I when I'm working on something as it's self said I drag things into the left sidebar so that I can see them and and get to the very quickly so in my finder you can see I've got mechmania Australia 2012 well I needed to get in and out of this constantly right all the time while I was working on it so I just dragged the folder in there I you can drag folders in there that exist in other places it's just a pointer over to it you're not actually moving it in any way so for example you can see the little green checkbox on these these are all all files actually a dropbox but I was able to put that folder there in the left sidebar every week I create a new folder for my podcast with the name the date of the podcast episode I drag it in there so I've got instant access when I'm done with it I hold down the command key and drag out and then let go when it says poof and it's gone easy enough to go get it back so you don't get terrified that you just lost it you can take it and drag it back in if you're running not sure if it was lion or snow leopard when it was last this way you didn't have to hold on the command key but I think there was a lot of help support calls of people going so that's probably why they added the command key to that so that you have to take some positive action to drag it back out I put dropbox over there sky drive don't tell anybody I've got Microsoft sky drive they wanted to give me 25 gig free I didn't mind it works just fine so I put a lot of different things in here I even have this is actually an Apple script actually an automator action that creates a certain kind of file for me and I put it in the left sidebar so just by a single click I can trigger that so hopefully that gives you a little idea why you'd want to put things into the left sidebar can you overwhelm it can you overwhelm it well I can get too long for your screen you'd have to scroll but again I just write things in and out as they're necessary since it's so easy even if I need it I don't need it for three days I might drag it out because I'm tired of looking at it it's confusing me that kind of thing you can also drag things up and down so like if I wanted to put a Macmania Australia below Macmania keynotes I could just drag it like that super super easy can you nest those can you nest those no because they're real folders they're pointed folders if you tried to nest them I think you'd end up you'd actually drag it the the lower level thing would get dragged into that folder let's see oh and as some pointed out about 200 times I had never really thought about it that much but the advantage of these left sidebar is that's also available in your save dialogue boxes in your open dialogue boxes so that's really handy they always got those folders and things that you need when you get there I will be sad when I have to drag Macmania Australia 2012 on my sidebar though he also talked about teaming the finder toolbar and I wanted to talk there about why I use it and why I use it for probably the single thing I use it for the most is an application called app delete from Reggie Ashworth comm app delete is an application that completely deletes an application for you it goes off and finds all the little bits of you know P lists and all the little cruft that get left laying around and deletes it for you well the best possible place for me to put that is in the in a finder window because whenever I'm in my applications if I wanted to get rid of art board I just drag it up and I could drag it right onto there and actually delete that application so it's app APP yeah DELAT it's it's not very much money I forget exactly what it was but it was it's definitely worth it to keep things super clean max don't get the cruft quite as badly as you know the registry and windows but it still it feels better to be to just completely get rid of something and not leave a little crufty bits laying around so I'm a big fan of aptly there's a lot of applications that do that aptly it's my favorite and Reggie Ashworth is possibly the most responsive software developer I have ever talked to I mean he just like he gets back to me within hours it's it's really really good you can't put commonly use files up there and I never really thought about a bad reason to do that is that's not available to you in your open-save dialog box but let's say you've got an expense report that you're constantly putting your hours in a file that you're getting to all the time that might not be the worst thing to have up there that's not something to do an open-save dialog box with you just going to click on it to open it and by the way I do love the interruptions so interrupt like crazy the question was how do you get rid of it again you hold down the command key while you drag it out so if I'm holding command and I drag it would actually well yeah yeah um yeah that was that was a change and that's a lot of people for Luke going well I'm and I used to build the delete stuff and all sudden you're you are overwhelmed on that side so I'll talk to a little bit about taming the toolbar on the top so up here if you hold down do a two-finger tap or you do a control click or a right click on your mouse you could go under customize toolbar this is where he was showing us yesterday that you can add different things if you want to have a new folder button if you're tired of that he showed putting the path button up there which I'm actually going to do right now because I think that's kind of cool you'll notice as I'm dragging it around it's actually sliding things these things over so that I can put them anywhere I want so now I've got that up there he's talked about using labels you can actually get rid of things you can drag them down into here oh one of the nice things is you can get the default set back so if you just get this all hooked up and messed up you can just drag this whole thing right back up and you'll get it back the way it was and he also showed you notice I've got the words underneath mine I like to show icon and text you can do icon only and make it a little cleaner you can do text only like he said or you can go icon and text so I find that pretty handy I think that's a that's a really really nice feature to be able to mess around with that now I'm gonna keep that pathing I'll show you another way to do that too all right when I here's another great example of Don McAllister is I never noticed this weird new button that showed up I think was it in my mind on wasn't sure when that was when that the arrange button showed up it was in line I never even noticed it but I want you want to don't scream as well holy moly look at that button that's new I'm observant I guess so what I use that for the problem that solves for me is I very often want to see I like the column view but I want I don't want to see it by by name I want to see it by date or I want to see it by file type or something like that so if I go in here and let's say let's go into Magnet Australia there we go if I go into arrange I can arrange this by date created and it's going to show them to me in little chunks like that so I'm still in this column view that I prefer but I'm able to also see this in these different kind of categories and you can take it you can do it by well actually this can be kind of silly because they're all the same kind of thing let's see if I went into messages from Neil so I could do it by kind and you can see that I've got one folder and a bunch of PDFs in there I really like that button and I was very happy when Don taught me about it all right let's see so kind open yeah date open date added date modified date created you can actually check an awful lot of these different different ways of looking at it all right concrete column widths this is one probably a fair number of people know but maybe not everybody so let's say I've got my column like this and I'm trying to read what is that file name if I position my cursor right over this line you'll notice it changes into a different symbol if I double tap there it just expanded to be the exact width of all of the of everything that's in there so it's what's that I said it's like the green button yeah yeah that actually does the window yeah it's the same conceptual thing yeah yeah so I knew that for a long time but what's what's interesting is the option key and I'm gonna do a whole bunch of slides all about what the option key can do but what if you've got a bunch of columns that you want to change the width on so let's go here and let's shrink this down too small we'll shrink this one down too small if I hold down my option key when I double click they both changed so it expands it all together but you have to have your cursor on the line showing the parallel lines yes you have to have your cursor right on that line when you're doing it and it's option and then option double tap so one of the things I'm trying to do here is to take you from being maybe a piano player level on the on the on the Mac to being a pianist where you're making it sing you're just getting it to do what you want it to do instead of you know giving in and doing what what it wants to do and you know carefully dragging things around instead just doing things a little more efficiently here so command and double click a second time with a compress no because I don't think so because it doesn't know exactly what it is you would want it want to do you say command double tap no because I don't know how it would decide how messed up you wanted it to look you know what was that what was that with the one I suppose it could try to get to a minimum level so sound talk to a lot about finding things with spotlight and I actually don't use the spotlight search box in the upper right at all and that's not to say that you shouldn't or if you can remember all of those different I believe my mic just went dead I can keep talking can you hear me in the back yeah all right I'll keep powering tell it let me know when I blow your eardrums out when it comes back so I just can't remember all of the different terms I'm I can remember kind colon and that sort of thing but I'm just I don't use it enough to have memorized every single one of those different commands that he had thank you that was gonna be hard if I had to keep doing that so you you I'm just not that good at remembering all those things so what I do is I use these little buttons that show up here and it makes it a lot easier for me to figure out so let's see I have a crazy guy on my show who contributes to my podcast a lot who calls himself professor Albert so I'm gonna put a professor Albert up here in my search box and put it in quotes and you're gonna see that I got an awful lot of different options here a lot of places that I talked about professor Albert and that makes sense because he's on the show a lot but what I can do is do you see this plus button right here if I hit the plus I can say no I'm searching Allison for Professor Albert but I can say kind is let's say an image and that just found an image that was in an email that had the word professor Albert in it so professor Albert isn't embedded in this text anywhere but you'll notice down at the bottom it shows that it's in my mail and that's an email from the guy who signs his emails professor Albert so it drove all the way down into my mail and went and found it and found it I would call that pretty stinking instantly this one's also an email that he sent me an image that he sent me in an email so it's kind of interesting it was able to do that that quickly now there's a ton of options here so as Sal was showing if you go to last open date for example you can then say things like within the last seven days exactly on such and such a date before that date after that these these buttons change in context with what you've chosen here so you notice when I was on kind the only option was what kind you want but when I'm on on one of the date options then I'm going to have all these different kind of date related options if we look at modified modified date is one and name we could even filter that down even further we could we could add more context to it to do the search even further so I use this all the time I'm just not smart enough to remember all those kind colon space where's the space is it before after that kind of thing so this is the way I do it and it's accomplishing the same thing without having to remember quite as much in my opinion as he said you can also save the searches I create a lot of AIFF files every week which are giant uncompressed audio files and after about a month I delete them so when I'm sure nothing's gone wrong with the podcast I'll go ahead and delete those files well by clicking on this I'm able to see those are all the AIFF files that I haven't that I haven't deleted yet oh no that's interesting I just double tapped it in a trink single no I've double tapped it in a trinket was a multiple no but it's supposed to shrink it to fit the whole thing and it's not doing it do it again that's curious that's it's not watch when I double tap it it's going back curious double tap on I was double tapping on that line and I was also option tapping it double tapping it wasn't no curious okay well anyway you can see if I if I right-click or two finger tap on that I can show the search criteria and you can see what I'm searching for I'm saying I want to find AIFF files that start with NC underscore because that's the name of all my files I can go in and modify that and save it again if I wanted to change it so I don't use this a ton but every once while that's that there's that thing that you need that you want to always be able to search for it once you build it you click the save button in the right you don't have to do it again everybody asleep in the back okay good I'll try to keep my voice down I'm crazy about gestures and actually this is fun again with what Sal talked about because Sal is clearly very into doing key strokes and I like a certain number of key strokes but certain things I'm really worried about repetitive stress injury so I really try to minimize the times that I click I hate clicking now I don't ever click on my mouse pad any my track that I should say any more ever I never click because I've been able to turn on these gestures and learn them well enough that I don't have to anymore so one of the things I've said a couple times is that I'm single tapping so let's actually now that's too hard to see let's go into we're going to go into the system preferences and go into track bad now if you're using a magic mouse this gets kind of confusing because I think the magic mouse from when I've been able to follow from other people it's one fewer key fingers than whatever I say so if I say use three fingers it's actually two fingers if you're on a magic mouse so I don't use a magic mouse I'm just going to describe it in in track bad terms so take a look at it for yourself if you're using a magic mouse so the first tab under track bad is tap to click I will not sit down at somebody's computer and tap once and not go up and change this so that I can't do this it doesn't stop you from clicking you can still click if you want to but I like just being able to do a single tap so I'm going to tap with one finger I selected and now I have to click because I undid it I hate clicking the second one down is tapping with two fingers gives you contextual menus so if I'm in here like when I was on AF the silica I tap two fingers and I've got access to the contextual menu I'm not having to right-click control click any of that kind of stuff I'm just lightly tapping with two fingers so I find that to be a much gentler way to do it one a lot of people don't turn on but I'm in love with this called three finger drag you know I can push with my finger nice and hard on that track pad and I can drag it around or if I have this selected I can simply gently let put my three fingers on there and drag it around from the top of the screen I love that drives me crazy that I can't do that one windows I just hate clicking you know I've gotten completely away from it there's any any questions on any of those no good so if I go into more gestures this is where you can really have a lot of fun one of them is to scroll right or left with two fingers I can't demonstrate this because I can't get a web browser open but if you like it open it it just wouldn't do anything so I what I'm going to do what you can do is with two fingers simply swipe left and right and it'll go forward and back instead you haven't dragged your finger all the way up to that left arrow and click back it's really a gentle movement you can go forward and back I think it works in PDF so maybe a couple of other applications the next one down is swiping left or right between full-screen apps why I've got to see does it count let's see while you can get to the to the right you can get to your dashboard let me go back to keynote and put it in full-screen mode so now if I use the four fingers and I swipe to the right and here swipe to the left and back so again I'm not clicking I'm not having a command tab I'm just gently moving my fingers back and forth and I'm distributing those those motions that I'm repeating into different places sometimes I have to use my hands to my keys but a lot of times I don't so I'm able to flip back and forth and and anything that interrupts that repetitive motion is what's going to save your your wrists and all that kind of thing for later now I'm not fond at all of the swipe from the right edge with two fingers on notification center so I'm actually going to turn that one off now that I noticed it's a thing I just swiped in from the far right of the screen to bring up I'm sorry the far right of my trackbed actually off the trackbed onto it to bring it back now the reason I want to turn that one off is it accidentally gets triggered all the time when I'm trying to go back and forth in a web browser so I'm actually going to turn that off because with a single tap I can also hit that to see the notification center this is mountain line specific of course I don't use these last ones that often but if you swipe up with four fingers you get to you can see all of your open windows within a single application so I could also just jump up here and then tap to go to keynote or I can I can jump around like that just going back and forth between them pretty easily app expose swiping down with four fingers that's showing me what's in the current app so let me go to let's see me open B again and we'll open a second oh that's a one that doesn't work let's go back to keynote and we'll open recent and bring up that one so now if I go down I can see both windows that are open within the same application what I noticed in this in keynote in particular keynote and pages and numbers all store your files up in iCloud so I can actually see the other files that are also in iCloud I can actually flip through these I'm using two fingers again to swipe back and forth I can see all these other applications I'm sorry all these other documents that are not open at this time but are actually associated with this application I'm not sure how to control that would get when you've got thousands of files but but it is there the reason I don't use those two gestures as much as because I can never remember which one switch I'm always going four down four out which one is it oh I'm just go back and forth and it makes me kind of crazy so I don't use it that much but maybe your your memories better than mine if you pitch with the thumb and three fingers you can look at launch pad and there's been some discussion of whether launch pad is good or not but if I wanted to get to Firefox I just found out I could start typing it it would show it up but I could hit enter and launch that so now I have a reason I might try launch pad from time to time let's see see I'm gonna say it's three so it's four fingers out to get it back the one I do often is the thumb and three fingers spread straight out that gets me to my desktop that just gets all the junk off the desktop and gets you right in that one's kind of fun so out in out in in so that one's a little bit easier to remember because you're taking your three your four fingers your three fingers in your thumb and you just one like that like just get it all out of my way so that one that one's the one I can remember tell let's see yes one comment I have an older Mac Pro with a track pad is an older Mac Pro with a track pad it's really quite flaky it's flaky you mean Macbook Pro I think no I mean a Mac Pro oh but the standalone track pad that is correct and the action of the track pad is really quite flaky you might want to get that checked out because my track my the external track pad it works just lickety-splits what wonderful well if you have a newer Mac Pro that could explain it because I've taken it into the job and they just not as their head or shape their head okay I don't know yeah all right let's keep going here so these are the these are this is a review of the things that I just showed you live at the demo there all right this is a really cool one this is a down probably taught me this one too let's let's not get ourselves right you don't like good stuff so have you ever been emailed a form that somebody wants you to sign and then they want you to fax it like an idiot from 1962 I don't even know how to fax anymore I don't I don't know where the machine is I don't I'm not going to do that so a perfect example this we were in Hawaii with my daughter and she's buying a house and she told her realtor do not send me anything between these two dates to sign because I can't get to a fax machine so of course her realtor sent her form to sign and she was just apoplectic about it and I said well we have actually a way to do this what you can do is you can actually sign a piece of paper and hold it up to the camera and preview will say oh is this what you want to use as your signature and allow you to drop it in this is so cool so in what you're going to do is you're going to sign a piece of paper and a preview you click on signatures and then click the plus button at the bottom so you see this signature button here you're going to click on the plus button and it's going to bring up your your eyesight camera is going to turn on and you hold the paper real skill and move it around until you see your signature show up over here it's a little bit flaky I've had days where just like it goes boom there's your signature break so I'm not going to do a live demo but it comes and goes on and it does seem to like a little bit thicker pen if it's a real thin pen it'll be kind of scratchy looking it'll have a lot of gaps in it but all you have to do is hold it up to the screen wait till it comes up and then click accept from then on right up here in the toolbar in preview is a button that you can press you click that then click where you want your signature to go and boom it drops it right in it's it's amazing it works really really well and you can save more than one signature so I can sign stuff for Steve now and I never know that I'm doing that great let's talk a little bit about the doc could somebody steal your signature could somebody steal your signature well what I do after I drop it in is I print it out to PDF again so when I've got the preview document up I don't want that layer to be separated and I'm not really sure whether it would or not but just to be safe I print that file out as a PDF and now it's it's just like if they had a piece of paper with your signature sure they could scan it in crop it out start doing things with it it's no better than worse than paper at that point you like PDF pen for it that's from smile software PDF pen as well so right up here in the in the preferences paint the preference paint is the signature tab I didn't say that thank you yeah all right so I'm not a huge doc fanatic but let's talk about the doc a little bit let's go back over here actually put this back in I'll use my two-figured swipe to get back oh so right now I have my doc on the left-hand side but I wanted to show you just a couple things if you haven't played with it if you get your cursor around where that little I don't know it looks like though the crosswalk we were the Beatles should be walking across is what I always think but maybe it's because Don was talking to me about it when I talked to him but right around there if you right-click you can show different things that you can do in your toolbar I'm sorry in your doc you actually know I did click in the wrong place that's other things I can do there we go right on that on that crosswalk you can do things like changing whether your magnification is on or off and whether it hides honor hide is on or off so right now I if I move away from here that hides automatically but let's say you just wanted to show all the time I'm gonna turn hiding off and now when I click out here it's gonna stay there if I want to change how big those icons are I can change magnification turn that on and now you can see how they kind of jump out at me when I get to it if you have trouble seeing it's kind of nice to be able to see those those icons get a little bit bigger if I go into the preferences from there I can change the magnification jump those things oops that's all right yeah that is what I wanted so if I close that now when I go over there giant that's kind of silly we probably won't leave it like that but that's the kind of options that you can set directly from there so if you go into those doc preferences you can set this to be just about anything you want you can also change the position from left bottom to the right I find it irritating down at the bottom because our screens are nice and wide why do I want to waste some of the vertical space so I keep it on the left-hand side in order to to actually get a little more space let me turn hiding back on that will irritate me to have it showing up all the time right let's see if I covered everything on there oh yeah so another thing you can do is you can take documents and actually documents or applications and drive them in and out of the sidebar let's go get don't say oh that's why it was doing because I was editing that smartphone at the time oh yeah we'll take this and I'm just gonna drag this file okay sorry that turn you on golf all right I get this down in here I can take this document I could just drop it into the into the dock and now I can just simply click that once and get to it now it used to be that you could drag it out actually sorry you could drag it out and let go and it would disappear but you'll notice it didn't really disappear what they did here and I don't know why they did it differently in the sidebar you hold on the command key you would think that would help you but it isn't you just go oops I keep it right clicking on it sorry you just drag farther until it turns into a little poof of smoke there about Pyro where you can see it so you see how it's got a poof of smoke now but when I first dragged it it didn't so you just have to go farther to get it to think about it I'm gonna do a live experiment sell work worked without a net I'm gonna do it let's put this here I wonder if I held down the command key and drag if it would do it oh okay that was good I managed to drive it in the sidebar let's not do that all right yes so we dragged it till we see a puff of smoke we're good to go another thing I wanted to show it and South talk had already had this set on turned on but at one point he pointed down to the bottom of his finder window and he had the full path showing for a file that he had selected and he also had it showing how many items were in that folder and how much disk space he had left off had left and that allows you you can't do that unless you have set that toggle that on I believe that's off by default so let's go back here if we go in finder and go to view right here you've got the status bar and the and the path bar so notice that down at the bottom here this is the path I have showing if I go to view and I say hide path bar that disappears so actually I notice people trying to look up like this I'll bring it up a little higher is that easier yes all right so yell at me if I forget to do that so if I go show again view show path bar I can get that back so this this pathing is really nice and it's kind of cool because you can jump right to it you could just say just jump to the pod feet folder but I can also do it from here I can jump straight to the pod feet folder by clicking on that oh no I can't oh there you go yeah I can so it's just another way to do the same thing but I think is a little bit easier to just have that available at all times if you have a small screen like you're an 11 inch mat MacBook Air maybe you don't want that on because every every you know 8th of an inch is really precious real estate so maybe you don't want to turn that on you want to turn that off I want to know be able to look at a glance to see out where my disk space is is hanging out so where I do that is with the status bar so if I uncheck that it's gone and if I recheck it it's back so that's a that's a way to just get real situational awareness instantly know whether you've got disk space left it's something I want or like tonight today right before I left to come up here I decided to back up my photos while there were 192 photos in aperture I was going to back up and I started to back it up and I said okay I gotta get going I looked and because I could instantly see down here in the folder I could see I'd only backed up 54 photos so far and I knew it wasn't going to get done by the time I got back so I was able to just instantly see you know I have to do a get info or anything like that to see what was in that folder so I definitely like to have that one on at all times so I am a huge fan of the get info button the get info option get info lets you learn about a file or a folder and learn about what's going on in it and this is pretty close to impossible to read so I'll do that in a demo but it's gonna it'll allow you to see you can add comments to your file so the comment cell was talking about that he was adding to the file you could do that in here for searching you can find out how big the file is certain kinds of files don't show when you click on them to the right they don't show what the file size is and I don't know what what's up with that but if you ever have a file you want to know how big it is you can do a get info to find out you can find out how big a folder is but it sometimes takes a while you can also set what application opens the file in there and what application opens all files of this type and if your OS is yelling at you about permission sometimes you can get a hint in here so let's go back to our folder here let's go say to this folder and look at a file so I'm gonna hold down command I and it's right here is the spotlight comment so I could show I could write the word art in there and now if I searched on art it would find that file it tells me it's a PNG image it gives me the size in bytes of 536 kilobytes in this file gives me the folder path which I'm kind of already sitting there and that's okay but created modified dates you can add labels here let me fold these up so it keeps getting taller towards the top this will even tell you the size of the JPEG image if you're looking to see is that one of the big ones and one of the little ones I can afford to put into a PDF and not make a giant PDF Christmas letter except I talked about yesterday you can change the name here I don't know why you want to do that but you can change it here you can choose to hide the extension you notice it disappearing right here watch when I show the extension again you can do that I'm a really important thing probably the most important thing in get info for me is the open with dialogue here what I find is really really often files music files always want to revert to opening in iTunes and I might want to play in the quick time because I just want to get I get an idea of what what the file is so right here you can change what that file is gonna open let's just be really goofy and say Google Chrome another thing you could do is you can say change all so this is just changing that one file to open Chrome if you click on change all it's gonna change all files on your whole computer all PNGs will now open in Chrome so I might want to put that back I do find that it undoes itself though like the one I was talking about like MP4 is I want to open in quick time I just heard no it was a AFF files I want to open them in quick time and it's always going and copying them over to iTunes drive me crazy which is another reason I want to keep searching for those AFF files because I don't want those 400 megabyte files you know being duplicated all over collapse this one so you can also see sharing and permissions here and I don't mess around in this very often but it is a place you can see if it says you only have read privileges here that means you got something wrong with your permissions on your file so it might just give you a hint but that's sort of an upper division class that I'm not capable of teaching so I'm going to close that out let's see oh it's gonna be another thing there we go oh here is one of my favorite favorite favorite things in the world I have gotten so lazy I don't want to redefine things I want stuff to just come to me I want to if I'm on a website and I know I'm looking for something on that on that website I'm just gonna hit command f and type in what I'm looking for if it's a document I do kind of command f I'm gonna just search I don't want to go have to look for anything and pay attention and read the whole darn thing so one of my favorite tips here actually let's go back over and get out of that load let's say I'm looking for I want to find the oh here's a good one I was having trouble with my fonts where was it here I was having trouble with my thoughts that they were capital letters and I couldn't figure out how to get it and if I keep digging around in here it's in here so it's in format in sir I can't remember where it was if you tap on top on help and I type in capital look at whoops font capitalization there it is so you can get to any of your menus by typing in the search up there again something that drives me crazy that I don't have on Windows because I can't remember where anything is there either so for some reason the location of this one always escapes me I really was trying to find it when I did it on my own but I find that using it then doing this is a lot easier so I can even go all the way down and say okay I want to do all caps and I can hit that and go straight into it so it's a really really easy way of finding things in your menus and like I said I'm just I'm just too impatient to read to get into it any farther than that so you can use that in any application in OS 10 will support that feature yes he said for extra laziness points we can do what was it I want to learn this so right now or before I hit hell okay it's not doing anything I think I just duplicated this file just changed into edited that's fine too is better option yeah find it though I want I want more laziness points definitely if I have to do less it's always good all right so my my eyesight isn't quite what it used to be and I actually had some ergonomic specialists come to my office to figure out why my shoulder was hurting me the back of my shoulder was just killing me all day every day for a couple of years we fought with this thing and they brought me a different keyboard they changed the orientation of my monitors they took the they took the armrests off of my chairs they could not figure out what was why it was still hurting I studied how I opened the door in the car was of the way I was pushing it open was it the way I was crocheting sitting in my chair on the couch I just checked everything and I finally actually I give Steve credit for this he said why are you pushing your computer so far away I was pushing it farther and farther and farther away so my arms were out as outstretched everywhere I was I was just backing up so I've now told the Ergo guys look at the age of the person you're helping if they see their shoulder hurts because there might be something else going on I had not yet started to wear reading glasses so here's a way to not get your reading glasses out though a couple of different things command plus in web browsers and in mail and a couple of the things will actually increase the font size for you let's see I can launch chrome but I'm not gonna be able to do anything in there but I think you'll be able to see it there we go so if I hold on the command key and plus you're gonna see things getting bigger and bigger so it's kind of a nice way to go back and forth if you just can't read you know some cute little teenager with their eight point fawn on you know gray and a dark gray background it's not skimming they lose their vision anyway if you want to get it back to where you started so that was command plus and command minus to just go up and down if you had command zero it goes back to the way it was formatted originally so if you get out of sync you can jump it back like that so that command zero I just just figured that one out last week no Don did not tell me that when I did all my own maybe did another thing you might have noticed did you notice Sal was zooming in and out he was going like this yeah did you wonder how he's doing that yes let me tell you oh yeah so if you hold down the control key and scroll scroll up and then I'm moving my cursor to the edges and that's making it scroll so that's actually a feature that you need to turn on I think under system preferences and I think it's accessibility right well I'm gonna I'm gonna snake something from one of my other slides I'm too lazy to look for anything in system preferences let's just type in accessibility and boom another search trick right there so zoom is let's see here it is so use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom so I've got control scroll is what that's doing so again I can scroll up and down and I think there's something in here so there are more options here it says only when the pointer reaches an edge let the screen move so you can do that or you can say continuously with pointer and that's kind of gonna make you erpy if you keep doing that a bad phrase to use on a boat so we won't do that very often just getting it's really annoying what does that so I I keep it on when the pointer reaches an edge so if you get again we'll make that nice and big for everybody to be able to see so that was an accessibility zoom and then we turned on you scroll gesture and more options but I was a lot that's in my charts for you because that's gonna be that's gonna be tough to find later oh somebody found voiceover cool want to know how to make it stop talking command I think it's command 5 let's see no no it's f5 command f5 so it's command f5 command f5 this sounds familiar Allison so I actually do a speech I called blindfolded where I teach how to use voiceover on the Mac which is why I knew exactly what he did and how he got into a bind is it really not stopping Terry sat down yeah mute works too yeah trouble navigating yeah yeah you get navigating it gets real weird there too so oh I did oh look I did show you universal access options only when the pointer reaches an edge and so you do have it in the in the documentation there yeah okay so it's the question market should help so question mark no shit question mark okay to get to the question mark that's what you said oh don didn't you teach me that nice so one of the things I like to say to people I think I said it yesterday was no matter how much you know somebody knows more no matter how little you know somebody knows less so keep helping each other excellent I think I'll remember it better because you had made a mistake because now will be stuck in my brain there alright I already showed this one off where you can actually do search right up there ooh I wonder if we can use our new trick good assistant preferences can we do command shift oh it actually starts with it already up there so we don't have to use that all right we're gonna go to an advanced section here do you ever want to be like the cool kid that puts the posture or the the exxon to the exxon to you and eclair so that it has the right accents it looks all cute cool or you got a friend named Renee and she's always got it in her name and you're trying to figure out how she did it this is with a thing called the keyboard viewer and this is kind of complicated to get it set up but once it's set up it's pretty easy to use so we're gonna open system preferences we're going to go into language and text and we're gonna turn on the keyboard and character viewer so you're actually gonna get two tips for one out of this so it's actually on the input sources tab so let me I'm gonna go back and forth a little bit let's get our system preferences up again so where did I say I said language and text gonna go there and input sources and we're gonna turn on keyboard viewer watch up here when I do it you're gonna see this weird little strange icon show up that has no meaning so that's up there now now we can get down to see the keyboard viewer so if I go to the keyboard viewer what you're seeing me get this out of the way like this and if I hold down say the option key watch the E see how it's got a little accent above it what you do is you hold down the option key and you hit E twice the first E puts the accent there the second E puts the E so you hold that option E and then E and it'll give you an E with the the accent on it you can see right here that's where the oomont key the oomont is and nicely they put it over the U so that one's option U U that's actually available to you at all times whether you have the keyboard viewer showing or not but I like it there when I've said they're going oh man now this time I've got to have some other crazy character if you need to start holding down keys to see what they do so I'm holding the option key down option shift gives me some different ones you've got all kinds of crazy stuff you can type and if you notice when you do do the options some of them are red because that means dead key that you have to push something after it oh okay so yeah he's saying that the this this orange highlighting tells you those are the ones that you hit something and then you have to hit something else so I could hit this key and it would do it immediately but with this one you've got to hit it twice so you've got it option U and then you again I love that makes you look all sophisticated and I would by the way I would like to know where to do that in in windows so actually we get on this these symbols are special fonts yeah I found it once and I finally I wrote to Renee and said no I'm not going to do it anymore I think it's all plus a three-digit number yeah the last three digits in your social security yes question that that works on IOS that doesn't work on the Mac does it man that's awesome I did not know that I did was I all I'm doing is I'm pressing E and holding it down so watch I'm gonna press and I'm still holding it look it came up there it looks like you can type like a one two three or four two seconds to do this is fun well how come it doesn't go what if you want multiple well they took they took that out I know I now I'm just learning that they did it not in OS 10 but I know in IOS you just can't do a repeated key anymore you don't have the option do you copy paste I mean you can go if you want to be you can't press it down like your exclamation points at the end of your all-cap screaming at somebody on Twitter I maybe that's why they did it spacebar works okay oh X works no no well that was cool meets this other stuff I'm teaching this is great now this is so much fun all right let's see so this is where I walk you through so you've got the graphic so you can find this later you're going what did she say so you're gonna add another entry on this page yeah I'm gonna have to keep updating my charts aren't I you think so okay I tell you what one of one of you guys do it while I keep going because I got to make sure let's see how am I doing my time coming up on an hour we're doing we got a lot to do so I'll keep moving you may figure that out so the other thing you can do this does show you with the option shift K you can get the apple symbol you ever see people put that in it's all cute yes but you're never gonna remember that so the way you're gonna get to it is you're gonna go to your keyboard viewer well of course you got to keep trying these until you get option shift and there it is and that's the K where's the command oh that's command oh to make that one right actually I think it might actually well you have the great ones on there that if you want to put the squirrelly command and I think hang on just a second but I think it's all the other possible my next chart shows you how to do that so in the character viewer so we got two things for one we got a character view and a keyboard viewer if we go into the character viewer you can actually find these characters but they're hard to find you have to you have to kind of go through and look at you know pictographs currency symbols you have to keep looking for him so whoops it's changing that I see so you can go through and try to find it once you find it which I even forget where it was what you can do is you can choose to favorite it so when I favorited it now I have it there so let's say I'm in I'm in the text field here I can just take this and can I tap it no I have to drag it I can drag it down and now it's in there now I'm sure there's probably a character for that but a keystroke but I'm never gonna remember it anyway because I don't do it that often pop chart pop chart chart you're saying a word in in Klingon oh okay third party apple pop chart pop care huh okay let's go CHR and you do that okay but I promise you be free into the last segment so let's see so we did that there you can save your favorite character and from there you can drag it right in like we showed all right there's a couple of just random little tips that didn't fit into any of these any of these categories I wanted to show you a lot of people are switchers from windows it really bugs them that there's no delete key and I never understood that I mean how hard is it to put your character in the right place and hit backspace didn't think it was that big of a deal and still I started using windows a few years ago it's like man it really does come in handy turns out if you hold down the function key while you hit delete it is a true delete key so if you've been missing that you can have it with function delete another thing I like is you can command right arrow to click to the end of a line command left arrow to get to the back so let's say I'm right here and I want to my first is here but I want to write something down at the end I'm gonna hold down command and hit right arrow and it jumped to the right command left arrow it's going to the back yeah you use that lots yeah once you get into that one you're gonna love it I think there's some other things you can do oh man shift right arrow apparently selects the entire I knew that command shift that that's just a little random tip that I just I just love that one all right the great powerful option key I'm gonna have to speed up I got a lot to talk about still so anytime you're in a menu and you just I don't know you're bored or you're looking for something try holding down the option key you would be amazed at how many things change when you hold down the option key for example on if you're looking at your Wi-Fi signal and you're looking for your Wi-Fi hotspot in your house it look like this but if you hold down the option key it's going to give you all this other glop about your your router I don't know what any of that means but it looks cool and I bet John F. Brown knows what it's for so you can take a picture of that and send it to John when he's answering your question another spot I use this one all the time if you use the tap on the speaker icon all you get is the volume that's all you can do but if you hold the option key you can actually change your input and output source so you've gone into Skype and it's got the wrong it's got the wrong input or output you could just hold down the option key so oh you know what the resolution so low I can't actually see my you know let's see if I go in the finder can I see it yeah there we go so you can see if I just tap on it there that's all I got but if I had the option key it's going to show the other options for input and output use that one all the time I actually have an app called the sunflower I think it is or sound source that gives me that but you know I stopped using it when I realized I had it built in I could just option tap on that on that menu another spot and I think I'm credit again command I gives you get info command option I gives you something slightly different it's called the inspector and they look the same but one of the the main things about the inspector that's different is allows you to flip through a series of files so let me go back to my finder and go to my best activity demo so if I do a command I I can do a get info and but if I hit the down arrow nothing happens if I hit command command option I when I open it now if I hit the down arrow see how it's jumping through each of the files isn't that cool good job gone I thought that was cool and he could what did he call it again it's called the inspector when it does that does it have anything different in the menu looks pretty much the same huh yeah looks like the same stuff well only Don would know the name of the window that it opens up because he pays attention but discovery so Apple is really getting into the mode of don't you worry you're pretty little head about this will take care of this thing for you don't need to know about icky things like your library folder even though a lot of really important stuff in your library folder that you need to get to so there's about 162 different ways to get your library folder to show but the one I'm fond of Sal showed us yesterday the go menu watch what happens if I hold the option key do you see library in there if I hold the option key down yeah I don't know about you but I seem to need this pretty often there's stuff in application support that's where there's like if you're backing up a database for example I use an application called DVD pedia and I realized when I when I rebuilt my OS I said okay I don't want to bring all that junk with me so I did a clean install and then I loaded my applications and I hope a DVD pedia my entire library was gone it's a database that lets you track your DVDs and they said oh it's in your application support folder buried in the library that Apple doesn't want you to see so or mess or mess with don't be time yeah I mean you don't want to get too crazy in here if you're not familiar with what things are be gentle be cautious but if you're looking for something and somebody like John F Bronson's will just go to your library applications more folder and pull up your p-list and you know then at least you know how to get to it or if you call Apple care they're gonna tell you to go to the library yeah yeah I wonder if they know about the option yeah they do if you ask okay they assume that you know how to get your library yeah well I think it's irritating to everybody but I guess it's all well and good that if you're sophisticated enough to need to go to your library then you're gonna know how to do this so that's just a quicker way there are a bunch bunch of other ways to do it one of the things I did was I just said okay forget it I put it my left sidebar I don't have to go looking for it now I have it at all times all right bonus time so up to here everything's been free everything's been built in so you've gotten about 162 tips of things you can do for free I don't know it's probably 28 it was more than sample I'm sure of it no that's not true so is he still here anyway what I want to talk about next is an application called text expander how we text expander users and we got in here all right enthusiastic hands up I should tell you I'm gonna show you again at the end here but Gene McDonald from Smile Software is actually here she is not paying me to tell you this if you've been listening by show for anything like the time I was advertising for them but I am not now and you can tell I really believe in it because I'm gonna tell you about it anyway even though I'm not advertising for them so let's talk about the problem to be solved again I'm worried about repetitive stress injury because I'm on them I'm on my computer all day at work all day at home I just hardly ever let go of it maybe to you know say hi to Steve once in a while I'll stop typing the rest of time plan of my computer so you really want to find ways to reduce your repetitive stress and you also if you're in this class you came here because you want to learn how to be more efficient right that's the whole reason for sitting through this particular one is to get more efficient and this is gonna make you significantly more efficient than you are today the tool text expander is designed to allow you to type just a couple of characters and have a whole bunch of magic happen have a lot of characters spit out fill in forms all different kinds of things so I'm gonna walk you through a bunch of the different ones that I do and by the way I am not by any means a high end text expander user I use it a lot but I don't use it for a lot of its advanced features so I'm getting guessing there's people in the room who could go well also did you know you can do this did you know you can do that so I'm going to show you the one that the kinds of things I do a quick little example I type text expander all the time I type the word so I type in TE semicolon and text expander spits out so you can just type a couple of characters and you're going to get a sentence a phrase of word I'd like to start with a problem to be solved so I'm going to think of just talk a lot about what you might want to do with it first and help you get your brain ready for what you might want to do with it so think about phrases or information that you type over and over and over again I type my name all the time I type in and semicolon and outspits Allison shared it's got a lot of characters it's a lot of it's a pain to write your address your signature let's say you're in customer service I work with a woman who has to deal with customer service and she just you know she's getting that edge where she's real tired of talking to these people and so she's got to write an email that says thank you very much for your inquiry into our services and I told her just write some really obnoxious phrase as your snippet and then the nice thing will come out it's a way to go filling in information on forms actually this is going to be kind of comical I'm going to walk you through how to do this but you know how logging you to ship Wi-Fi you have to type in your first name then your last name then your number then your password then hit the button right it's kind of a pain you're doing it all over and over again well I was bragging to Jean last night yeah I just used text expander for that I type fn for first name and Ellen for last name and you know and I go through it like that she says why didn't you have to fill out the whole form all at once for you I mean I'd watch down teach it but I forgot I couldn't do that so this morning in about 10 minutes I was able to figure out how to do it on my own so it's that easy to get the hang of that I was able to figure it out and I had never done this kind of thing before with it and Jean's going to kill me for not having done it before but you know she's got David Sparks and and and Katie Floyd are better users than me but we'll work on it text expander is the very first thing that I load on a new computer because I will not work on a computer that doesn't have a Mac that doesn't have it so it is the first thing I do so what we're going to do I mean let me talk a little bit about setting her preferences and this is by far not an exhaustive list of things you need to set up it's going to be all up to you but under the text expander is a little bit of an odd program we just show you what it looks like oh wait there you go when you go into text expander you'll notice that there's no menu up here that says keynote so you don't actually have a menu to get here to get to your preferences you get to the preferences right here so you're going to go into preferences and I said it to launch it log in let's go back to full screen so you can see what I'm doing here I said it to launch it log in right here I like to show in the menu bar because a lot of times I like to tap on it and do follow certain menu things that you can do in there and I also show it in the dock you could choose not to show it in the dock if you don't want to if you have it in the dock it allows you to and it's running let's see oh I don't have in the dock right now if you have in the dock and it's running I think that's what allows you to use command tab and switch to it to do something so you know that's it that's a preference you can set again there's a lot of preferences in here and I'm not gonna go through all of them but that's kind of just a couple of things to start with so let's create our first snippet what you're gonna do let's say we want to create the name so I'm gonna let me switch over to the finder I'm going to text expander and I'm gonna I'm gonna set up a snippet to write my name so you're gonna click on new snippet and up here you're gonna type the thing you want to have typed out so I'll put in my name and then I'm gonna type in N M semicolon and oh shoot hang on you delete this one and then that will stop turning orange if it turns orange if you've used the same thing twice so all I did was I take the thing I want to type up here and then I put the abbreviation down here now you'll notice I'm using semicolons that's because I've never been clear on exactly what they're for so I know I'm never gonna use one in a sentence because I'm not really sure when I mean and don't send me that graphic that explains what it's for everybody has after we tell them that it's really funny explains what they're for but anyway once I've done that now I can go up to let's see let's go back in here and let me come out if I hit character turn it I can say fn semicolon in my name spit oh I did fn sorry and there's my name so how often you write your name about 200 times a day right why why not why do not do three characters now if you name spot smith me that's not so bad but I also shared a lot of characters it's a real pain I don't like having to have it a type it what happened as a beep what's that I didn't hear the beat oh he didn't hear the beat Steve hates the beat drives him crazy I don't know let's get the mic on here this is what drives my husband crazy did you hear it I hear that thousands of times a night he's like stop that be it drives him crazy so I keep it on all right good well I actually muted this because you were in the room that earlier and I wasn't I wasn't annoying you on purpose today so you can see how easy alright you can see how easy it is to do just a normal snippet and I do those all day long I as I mentioned I have that my naming convention for the way I write the the episode number for my podcast so let's see what is it NC semical and I think oh no that's no solid cast I'm doing a brain dump right there I can't remember what is anyway one of the things you can do with text expander is you can open your last snippet your last recorded snippet actually you know what I'm paralyzed here because I can't see it in the menu bar because the screen resolution solo in the screen resolution or in the in the menu bar you can pull down and say open last expanded snippet so I use that a lot because I have this snippet that I'm changing every week to just be the last two digits of that of that code that I've written so that's kind of a kind of a neat little extra trick let's go let's talk a little bit more about things you might want to expand I do words that either our camel case or my brain thinks they might be a text expander has that either the middle well again I write it a lot but I also I'm saying that what is the capitalized or not Facebook is the be capitalized on dropboxes the be capitalized on WordPress oh the PS capitalized I don't remember any of those I just type all of those and and it does the camel case by the way is where as a capital letter in the middle technically that's not camel case I know it's not supposed to have a leading cap but you get what I mean I also do it with things that are annoying to spell my partner on my show is a guy named Bart Wuschatz look at the spelling of his name I've known him for five years I don't think I've ever spelled it correctly yet so I set up a snippet comma BB and that's how I spell his name every time because I have no chance of spelling it correctly otherwise things like this inventory acts you know oh man I talk about that a lot of my show and it's just a real pain or blu-ray is there a dash between the blue and the red Google plus word plus key up too much work also things that I just type all the time I type no silly cast of silly castaways that's the name of my we'll call it a fan club the crazy uber people that really like the shore called the no silly castaways and so you know spelling that that's a lot of work on my email address I spell that all the time I also do it for temporary things just like putting things in the left sidebar because you're going to need them temporarily I do that like when I'm writing a review and it's an annoying name of a product because sometimes again is it upper lowercase so the two words squish together whatever I never know so I use it for those temporary things so I mentioned that I use semicolon that's called the trigger the thing that actually makes it happen you can have text expander start expanding as soon as you type it or you have to hit a trigger there's two ways to do it I prefer to use a trigger and control it but you could have it where if you typed an M it would instantly expand that I like it to have the trigger so I put the semicolon on it you can put something after or before as a trigger so a lot of people use a comma like I said I use comma BB I don't know why that was on BB semicolon but it isn't so a lot of people use the comma beforehand and they seem to like that as well and again there's a ton more options to play with yeah question what would you do if you actually want to type in semicolon you're on alert don't let you do a shift a shift space after it that's interesting well I do it a couple of different ways what I'll do is in M space semicolon then back up in a racist space that's one way I did notice today when I needed to type it type something I put it in quotes and that seemed to mess it up because I think it's the leading quote that probably said well that's not really an unsemical and it's something else so that's two ways to do that can use it for user IDs or passwords it would be a good idea for you a user ID I would not recommend it for a password I'm actually gonna do it show you how to do it for a password today because that's what she did and when she taught me told me I should be doing it but they don't recommend it for passwords because that's gonna be that text expander file is unencrypted on your hard drive somebody could get to that they look for the word password oh there it is so I wouldn't recommend it for that yes don't take my next pay no attention to what Don just said actually there may be more than the one I'm gonna talk about I'm just talking about the one she's tough having the teacher in the class all right so as Don just makes from me here tidbits has created a set of auto correct snippets that allow you to not misspell words there are 2,479 commonly misspelled words by the way I misspelled the word misspell I put I put what does I put one ass in it or something and it fixed it for me when I was when I was typing this in so these things will be automatically corrected for you it's a really really nice feature it's easy as you just use the plus button actually I just wrote at the top of the screen I think it's actually the bottom of the screen let's see yeah here you go add predefined group I think this is where you go you can go get this so at the I said at the top it's really bottom add predefined group and there's the tidbits on a correct dictionary I would believe you probably have to be connected to the internet to go do that I'm pretty sure that's where it comes from I don't know why they give it to us for free but they do you get that for free and you can get rid of it if you don't like it it works it works really well so I'm a fan because I as we mentioned I'm lazy some things one of the things I set up in it was for some reason I don't like capitalizing the letter I like if I'm just gonna say I was going to the store I just don't capitalize it I don't know why so I set up text expander to do it for me so I can stay lazy and text expander makes me not look like an idiot with lowercase I another thing that you get with text expander is HTML snippets and I don't know whether anybody here does any kind of HTML coding but the syntax is if you only use it a little bit it's maybe in some ways is more useful because it's easier to remember or to use the text expander snippets than it is to remember the long annoying syntax for example if you want to put a link on a web page it's left bracket a space a trap equals quote and then whatever you're going to link to like potty.com would go there unquote left bracket you put the words you want to show left bracket sliver oh my gosh it's a lot to do if you type comma a it'll type that in for you automatically and it leaves the cursor actually right where you need it so let me you drop in a line here my shirts are gonna be all messed up comma a you see how it's waiting it's blinking right between the code quote so it's there ready for me and there's ways to create those kind of snippets yourself if you're better at it than I am an image that you want to drop in a web page comma I am G creates that one for you they're super super easy and I don't think that's an added library that comes with it is that right oh you do have to add it in okay okay so it's just like auto-correct gene says that you add it in if you want it if you don't need it you don't need it did I get the one you want to be to say done okay the one I was gonna point out is the symbol snippet library which includes the command characters and the old characters yeah so where's that it was in the predefined group bit in the plus so we'll test it to see if it works without the command symbol and the old symbol so it's to CCMD oh CCMD and then it'll be what Don just said for the audience here is he said if you've got this set up and you want to put in the command key if you if you put that predefined group for simple snippets then you'll be able to type CCMD and you get the command key to come up command symbol it just pops up the symbol right in the text right where you are very nice okay well we learned another thing there's a woman in really really happy about this all right so let's talk about filling in these forms I'm gonna show you how to actually do this so you're gonna log in the ship Wi-Fi every day you got a bit first name tab last name tab room number tab password enter every single time you want to get on the internet it's getting really really old it was fun the first two or three hundred times right so let's create a form to do it instead with one trigger so I'm gonna show you you're gonna start a new snippet we start in the upper left-hand corner down at the bottom of the screen actually I think I better have to flip back and forth a couple of times because I've already built it because it's kind of tedious to do the whole thing but down here let's see we're gonna do a new snippet down here you see the cursor thing the first thing we're gonna want to do is fill in a form and it's gonna ask you there do you want a single line field a multi-line field a pop-up menu or an optional selection so if it's a pop-up menu you can even tell it how to toggle and choose it but what we're gonna do is a single line field because they didn't put it all in one it's a it's a bunch of separate fields so we'll go single line field and then we're gonna have it be first name and then the default value we want to be Allison let's see if my snippet works now it doesn't work that would be recursive fun oh no actually it's just first name that's right and I'll say done and then for the next time now we want a tab so instead of doing a fill in and going to single line field we're gonna go to key we're gonna select tab actually I'm gonna copy that and then we're gonna go and we're gonna do that just do the whole thing let's see fill in single line field this time it's gonna be last name and click default value share it in I copied that so I could just paste it I could do that key thing again but just for the for the sake of brevity we'll do this a little faster single line field so this is gonna be room and I'm pretty sure I'm in room ABCD not that I think any of you would stalk me and we'll paste in a tab and then next is gonna be password so even though I told Mike not to do that I'm gonna put in a password field books you can see how easy this is I mean I literally figured this out like an hour before we got together let's see not my password that's what we'll do is the password and I'll hit done and now the last thing you want to do is you want to hit enter right to hit to hit the button so I'm gonna go back to key and I'm gonna hit enter or return all right now I got to name it let's call this comma login see if that works if I didn't use that already today okay good so I always tap away from it or tap away from it before it actually fills it up here but you can see that so I'm gonna turn on my Wi-Fi to pressure to done sooner and get that annoying pop-up window so when that comes up all I'm gonna do is type comma login and then hit one button to hit okay to actually enter it by the way Gene have I done anything in efficiently here was there a better way to do it how about the way Safari does it with auto fill well yeah you could do things like that set up an auto fill but if you're only on the ship for 14 days you want to bother doing that I don't know it's up to you yeah well yeah you can have things out of the oh no it's not here no wait it is come on baby really morning is we're not working right now it's working just that it's on base you got it okay you got it all right all the edited out of the video we'll do it in being here all right so I'm gonna type what I say comma login right oh and then it'll come up yeah of course and we're gonna dance we're gonna have any questions while we're waiting for this to come up yeah well we could do it here and then when it when it comes out except that thing so annoying stands in front here so let's see I was gonna type comma login right so the thing came up when I typed it that's the little window it's gonna come up there you got it and then if I clicked okay we'll do it twice we'll click okay there it is so let's do it here so I'm gonna do returning user and I'm just gonna take comma login and the form comes up and I click okay boom it's done so anyway it's gonna fail of course because that's all fake information so I'll go ahead and read this I want to turn Wi-Fi off so it leaves me back alone so I wanted to show you that because it was this was a learning curve this morning and like I said I'm not that's a sophisticated user and yet I was able to figure out in just a few minutes how to get that to work so a couple more bonus prizes you get with x-expander is it syncs with Dropbox so if you use multiple Macs you can have your snippets available on all your Macs so there was a sync button in the system preference and the preferences we were talking about here's another interesting thing let's say you're stuck using Windows there's an application called Brevy from 16software.com it's it's not as elegant as as a text expander to be honest because it's a Windows program but Patrick from 16software.com is also very very responsive and the text expander folks from small software and Brea and 16 software they got together it said hey we're never gonna write a Mac application we're never gonna write a Windows application why don't we share snippets between us and then everybody gets to play so you can actually share your snippets between your Windows PC and your Mac and everybody gets happy so in case you doubt how much I use this whether it's really true I they give you your statistics so you can see how much you're actually using it in a 12 month period I saved 221,354 characters expanded 9,259 snippets saving 12 and a half hours that's at 60 words a minute if I type slower than that it's more hours right so if you write 30 words a minute you're even even faster so or even more time-safe so I mean I literally saved a half a day of my life that I didn't waste typing that's that's real stuff right that's real meat so to get text expander it's $34.99 and again I am not advertising for Gene I am this is just right from the heart the most useful thing I can use to actually speed me up so if you have any questions about text expander Jean McDonald is in the audience and she knows way way more than I do and I'm guessing there's some people in the audience who do as well so with that final word any questions yeah text expanders from a company called smile at smile software dot com and yeah it's third party you buy it for $34.99 from the Mac App Store or you can you can buy it directly from them but if you buy it through the Mac App Store obviously you get to use it on all your Macs does it work on iOS does it work on iOS yes there is an iOS version of it as well for the iPad and the iPhone is there another question I was just gonna say I brought the download so you can test it out while you're here download you can download instead of using the 25 cents of downloads oh you can use it for 30 days without restrictions so you can find out if you like it no no no penalty very cool gene that was a good idea she's been on the ship before any other questions all right thank you very much for going