Maccast Members #165 - OS X Mavericks Tricks

Finder

Tabs

• Uses the same shortcut as Safari tabs. Command+T
• Move between tabs by using the Control+Shift+Tab and Control+Tab keyboard shortcuts
• Command+Click a folder to have it open in a new Finder tab
• Drag an item to a tab to move it to that location (folder)
  • You’ll see a blue outline around the tab
  • Keeps you in your current tab
• Window > Merge All Windows will put all open Finder windows into one window. A tab will be created for each window you had open

Tags

• Finder has received a new panel in the Preferences to add new tags, manage them, and configure Favorite Tags (the ones that show up in the Finder’s sidebar and other quick menus).
• You can view by tags in the Finder by choosing View > Arrange By > Tags (Control+Command+7)
• You can add tags to a document in several ways:
  • In the Save dialog there is a new tags field
  • In the Get Info window there is a area at the top of the dialog that shows tags
  • Right+Click and choose one of your “favorite” tags from the contextual menu
  • Drag a file from a Finder window onto a tag in the sidebar.
  • Select a file in the Finder window and select the tag icon in the Finder toolbar
• Add multiple tags quickly by separating each tag with a comma
  • They will be added when you update or save the file
  • tags can have multiple words (separated by spaces)
• Manage tags in Finder > Preferences. Click the ‘Tags’ tab
  • Move them to rearrange the order they appear in lists and the sidebar
  • Click the “circle” icon next to a tag to assign it a color
    • Only seven colors to choose from, red, green, blue, yellow, orange, grey, and purple.
    • The same color can be used for multiple tags
  • Check or uncheck to control if they show up in the sidebar
  • Drag to “Favorite Tags” area at the bottom to set up your 7 “favorite” tags
    • These are what show up in the Finder’s contextual menu
    • Drag around to set the order
  • Control+Right click a tag to rename or delete it system wide
    • Deleting a tag will remove the tag from ANY files it was assigned to, even iCloud documents.

Special Characters

• There is a new pop-over to allow you to access special characters, like emoji, quickly
• The Control+Command+Spacebar keyboard shortcut activates the panel
• It shows recently used characters with tabs below to access various character sets
• Swipe down in the pop-over to access a search field
  • Tap the old style “Special Characters” icon next to the search box to get the old palette.
• You can also “tear off” the panel to get it in it’s own window.

Title Bar Tricks

• These are accessed using the old “Versions” title bar drop down
• A new popover to lets you rename a file, assign tags to it, change its location, and lock it.
• If you need to access versions you now get there from the ‘File’ menu. File > Revert To > Browse All Versions….

App Nap

• Allows apps that don’t have focus or aren’t visible to go into a lower power state
• Something that needs to be enabled by the developer
• Use Activity Monitor to check on Energy for apps
  • Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor
  • Click on the Energy tab
  • Can see the Energy Impact, Avg. Energy Impact, and if App Nap is enabled for the app.
  • This also works for Safari Tabs
    • Expand the section for Safari to see the individual items
    • Hover over an item to get a tool tip that shows the tabs URL
• Clicking on the ‘Battery’ icon in the status bar will also “tattle” on the apps that are using the most energy.
  • Section called, “Apps using significant energy”.
  • There could be good reason for the energy usage though.
• Get Info (Command+I) on an app and you can check the ‘Prevent App Nap’ option

Bring Back Library Folder

• While in your home directory choose View > Show View Options… (Command+J)
• Check the ‘Show Library Folder’ option
• The Library folder will still not show up under the ‘Go’ menu in the Finder. For that you still need to use the ‘Option’ key trick.

Print

• Now easier to export files as PDF. File > Export as PDF…

Notifications

• Disable notifications on the lock screen per-app
  • System Preferences > Notifications. Change the ‘Show on Lock Screen’ options per app.
  • Mail and Messages also have a ‘Show Message Preview’ option that can bet set to ‘when unlocked’, so message details won’t be seen if your Mac is locked.
  • Can also control more options for Do Not Disturb including setting a scheduled time, turning it on automatically when mirroring your display, Allowing FaceTime calls from specific groups, Allowing repeated calls through.
• Reply to several kinds of Notifications right from the dialog
  • No need to open the apps.
  • Hover over the notification to get the “reply” dialog box.
  • Works for Messages, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
  • For Mail notifications there is a ‘Reply’ option, but it will open Mail and start the reply.
• Internet Services boxes at the top depending on what you’ve enabled
  • These you can click to post to the various services right from Notification Center
• The system will notify you if your battery becomes low. This replaces the old “modal” dialog.

Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Maps

Contacts

• The three panel layout is back
  • Groups panel
  • Contacts
  • Details
• Hover over an address in the detail view and get the ‘Show Map’ link. Opens in the new Maps app.
• Can export cards right to PDF using the new File > Export as PDF… option
• Google accounts can now natively sync to Contacts
  • In System Preferences > Internet Accounts (Was Mail, Contacts, & Calendars)
  • Select your Google account and check on Contacts sync.

Calendar

• New Holidays calendar
  • Calendar > Preferences > General
  • Check ‘Show Holidays Calendar’
• When right-clicking a Calendar item with attendees, the contextual menu now shows new options to email or message all invitees.

Reminders

• New Today view that shows items due on the current day.
• Right-click (Control+Click) a list in Reminders to choose Complete All Reminders, to make all items in the list as done.
• You can now sync Reminders and Calendars separately via iCloud. System Preferences > iCloud.

Maps

• When you share Map locations via email the recipient is sent a Map image and vCard with the address
  • If you email directions they also get a PDF attachment with the turn-by-turn directions
• Shared map links go to a maps.apple.com URL
  • If the user has Mavericks or an iOS device with Apple Maps it opens in that
  • If they have a device that doesn’t have Apple Maps, oddly it opens Google Maps.

iBooks

• Finally we can view our iBooks on the Mac.
• To Migrate your iBooks from iTunes to the iBooks App, choose File > Move Books from iTunes… from the iBooks app.
  • This likely happened the first time you launched the iBooks app, or will.
  • After, when “books” are selected in iTunes, it will tell you the content has been moved to the new app and can be managed and read from there.
• New thinner style “toolbar” with icons merged into the titlebar on either side
  • Can’t be customized like a standard tool bar
  • On left, Library, Table of Contents, Notes panel
  • On Right, Font, Search, Bookmarks
• Right+click on a book to get a menu of options
  • Share
  • Show in iBooks Store
  • Add to or create a new collection with the selected book
• Select and Control+Click text in a book to get contextual menu with options
  • Highlight
  • Add a note
  • Glossary and Dictionary lookups
  • Search (Book, Web, or Wikipedia)
  • Sharing
• In iBooks > Preferences > General there are options to turn off full justification and to disable automatic hyphenation.

Safari

• Completely redesigned “Top Sites” view
  • Sidebar contains Bookmarks, Reading List, and Shared Links
  • Can switch between these using Control+Command+1, +2, +3 keyboard shortcuts respectively
• Shared Links are messages shared with you on services you registered in the Preferences > Internet Accounts that contain links.
  • includes Twitter and Linked In currently, no Facebook yet.
  • The icon next to the entry indicates the service it was shared on
• Control+Click (Right+Click) a link in the Bookmarks Bar and you can now edit it directly in a pop-up dialog after choosing ‘Edit Address’.
• Can let Safari stop plug-ins to save power
  • Preferences > Advanced
  • Check the ‘Stop plug-ins to save power’ option
• Browser plug-ins can now be managed on a per-website basis
  • Safari > Preferences > Security
  • Click ‘Manage Website Settings…’
  • List of plug-ins on the left and sites are on the right.
  • Ask, Block, Allow, Always Allow, and Run in Unsafe Mode.
  • There is a ‘When visiting other sites’ option as well.

System Preferences

Offline Dictation

• Now you can use the OS X Dictation feature without an Internet connection.
• System Preferences > Dictation & Speech
• Check the ‘Enhanced Dictation’ option
• It will be a 785MB download.

Mission Control

• If you use Multiple Displays you can now have separate Spaces for each Display
• Dashboard is now just a Space that can be moved around wherever you want inside Mission Control. Right. Left. Even in the middle.
  • Activate Mission Control
  • Drag the Dashboard to where you want.
• Each display will have it’s own menubar
  • The non-active menubar will be normally be more transparent
  • If you have a windowed app active on one screen and a full screen app open on the other you can actually have two menu bar visible at the same time!
• You cannot have windows that span two displays anymore.
• The dock can be on either display, but not both and only if you have the Dock set to appear at the bottom of your screen
  • Move the cursor to the bottom of the display which doesn’t have the Dock and it will appear there and disappear from the other display.
• You can switch Multiple Displays back to the “old” Mountain Lion behavior
  • System Preferences > Mission Control
  • Uncheck the ‘Displays have separate Spaces’ option.

iCloud

• Control iCloud storage on an app-by-app basis
  • System Preferences > iCloud > Documents & Data
  • Click on Options
  • Check OFF any apps you don’t want to let store data in iCloud
  • When off for an app you won’t see the iCloud Library in the apps Open dialog box.

App Store

• This is now where you’ll find the ‘Show Updates’ button. The Software Update preference panel is gone.
• You can also check the ‘Install app updates’ option to auto update your apps
• Allows you to auto download apps purchased on other Macs using the same Apple Store ID.
• In the App Store App
  • Update All, now has a contextual menu next to it. Can install, Now, In an Hour, Later Tonight, or Remind Me Tomorrow

Miscellaneous

iCloud Keychain

• Enable on iOS and in OS X
  • On your iOS device, go to Settings > iCloud and make sure Keychain is turned on
  • On the Mac, go to Preferences > iCloud and make sure Keychain is checked.
  • Check your Safari > Preferences > Passwords tab for settings
    • If you are having trouble with a site saying it can’t save the password to your Keychain, try checking the ’Allow auto fill even for websites that request passwords not be saved" option.
• In Safari > Preferences . Auto-fill you can also add Credit Card data to the iCloud Keychain
• If you’re using iCloud Keychain on your Mac, lock your Mac and don’t have accounts auto log-in
  • System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Then in General set the ‘Require password’ when sleep or screen saver begins to a low value (I use immediately).
  • System Preferences > Energy Saver, consider setting it to go to Display sleep in a short period.
  • System Preferences > Users & Groups. Click the ‘Login Options’ and set the ‘Automatic Login’ option to ‘Off’.
• Keychain Access
  • Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access
  • When enabled it will have a new ‘iCloud’ Keychain where you can view the items stored there.
  • If you turn iCloud Keychain off then the items will be replaced with a “Local Items” entry.
  • “Local items” will be pushed back out to iCloud Keychain when it’s re-enabled.

Power Button changes

• Tap the Power Button once puts the display to sleep
• Hold it for 2–3 seconds to see the old Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog
  • Can also do a Control + Power press to get straight to this dialog.
• Hold for longer, about 10 sec, to do the hard power down. (only for extreme system locked situations).