

As your Mac is running and you’re launching apps, surfing the web, and all the normal stuff you do on your Mac, RAM (memory) is allocated to do that. The command is “purge” and it does one very simple thing-it frees up RAM on your machine. Okay, fair enough, but here’s a simple command that will…well it’s pretty cool. All the horror stories of people typing rm * in the wrong place and wiping out their Mac will have that effect on people. A lot of people are a wee skittish about using Terminal. Oh Terminal, such power you hold over the entire system. One of the essential tools in a Mac Jedi’s toolkit is Terminal. Next time you want the current window to fill the entire screen, just hold down the shift key when you click the button. Sure that’s find most of the time, but sometimes you actually want the window to fill the screen. You know the red button on a window is close and the yellow one is minimize and the green one is maximize, right? Okay, so you also know that some apps (like Chrome and Word) don’t fill the entire screen when you click the maximize button. Shift-Click Maximize Button to Fill Screen Yes, padawan, here are my top 10 Mac OS X tips: 1. Some of these are pretty common and a few a little obscure, but they will all do something great that you bring you a step closer to being a Jedi Master of your Mac. I can’t claim to know that many Mac tips and tricks, but I do have a bunch of tricks up my sleeve that you might find useful.
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Ever watch someone who really knows how to use a Mac and OS X? Sometimes it just seems like magic how they can make windows move, images appear, apps launch, and all kinds of cool stuff- and their fingers never even seem to leave the keyboard.
