You don’t need to decide if these are worth the cost as they are free.
To find these apps type, Shift+CMD+A to go to the Applications folder to find the app.
- Stickies – Once you’re running Stickies, just hit Command-N (⌘N) to make a new note. Jot down some thoughts, drag the Stickies note around, resize it. You can change the color with Command-1 through -6 for a full rainbow array. If you take down something more permanent that you want to keep for later on all your devices, you can. Just hit File > Export All to Notes to move your Stickies into the Notes app, or you can export a single note to a .txt file.
- Digital Color Meter – this one is in a subfolder in Applications, Utilities. If you need an exact color match for graphics or presentations this will be helpful. You can copy the color as a txt file or image.
- Dictionary – Press CMD-Space to bring up Spotlight and type dict in case you need to define a word.
- Screeen Sharing – You can control other Macs with this. You do need to make sure screen sharing is enabled on your other Mac. If it’s a newer Mac, go toSystem Settings > General > Sharing and turn on Screen Sharing. On an older system, that’s in System Preferences > Sharing.
- Grapher – If you need some help on your math homework, be it algebra, calculus or whatever requires a polar logarithmic graph, you can always open up Grapher. You can make 2D and 3D graphs with a variety of different units and templates.Type in an equation in the top; click the ∑ symbol to the right for various features like roots, summations and integrals. You can stack several equations on the same graph by clicking the + at the bottom of the sidebar. Click on a plot and click the Inspector to edit the line color and thickness.
- Screenshot – you may remember the Shift-Command-3 (⇧⌘3) keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot on the Mac. (Or more likely, you Google it every time.) Pro users know you can do Shift-Command-4 and hit Space to capture a window and even hold down Option to exclude the window’s drop shadow. Or, if you aren’t an encyclopedia, you can just launch the Mac’s Screenshot app. It offers a friendly user interface for all the types of screen captures the Mac can do. Did you know you can take screen recordings with live voiceovers from your Mac’s microphone? Of a specific spot on the screen of your choosing? It’s remarkably simple. Just click the Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion button, click Options to select a mic, then click Record. Click the Stop button in the menu bar when you’re done, then save it.
There are even more useful Mac apps hiding in your Applications and Utilities folders. I use Activity Monitor to see which apps are eating up performance and memory. Disk Utility is where you go to manage hard drives and storage. Font Book is a great way to browse, add and preview the fonts you have installed on your Mac.
See this article for more detail.
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