1. Keynote: Turn smart dashes on or off
Turning smart dashes on or off doesn’t affect existing hyphens and dashes in your document, only new text that you type.
- Choose Pages > Preferences (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen).
- Click Auto-Correction at the top of the preferences window.
- In the Formatting section, select or deselect the “Use smart quotes and dashes” checkbox.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-vn/guide/pages/tanad45f9cce/mac
2. Take a screenshot
- To capture the entire screen, press Command + Shift + 3.
- To capture a window, press Command + Shift + 4 + Space.
- To capture a portion of the screen, press Command + Shift + 4.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361
3. Increase Terminal text size
- Open Terminal app.
- Click Terminal > Settings… > Profiles > Basic.
- Click Text.
- Locate Font section. Click Change…. button.
- Select a new size.
- Close Font window.
- Close Profiles window.
- Click Shell tab beside Terminal.
- Select New Window > New Window with Profile – Basic.
4. Prevent your Mac from automatically disabling remote login
- Open System Preferences.
- Select Energy Saver.
- Select Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.
- Deselect Put hard disks to sleep when possible.
- Drag the Turn display off after slider to 3 hours or Never.
- Important step: repeat the procedure for Battery tab.
5. Set static IP
- Open System Preferences > Wi-Fi.
- Click Details button beside a network.
- Click TCP/IP item on the left.
- Select Using DHCP with Manual Address for Configure IPv4. Do NOT select Manually option. Using DHCP with Manual Address means that you just want to change only IP address. Manually means that you want to set up IP address, Subnet mask and router IP. Choosing Manually may cause Internet access issue if you are connecting your computer to a router with Access Point mode. Please refer to Apple guide for more information.
- Enter IP address.
- Click OK button.
- Restart your machine.
6. View memory using command line
top -l 1 -s 0 | grep PhysMem
7. Copy data from one MacBook to another using AirDrop
Generally Apple’s native AirDrop is the most optimized and fastest option for peer-to-peer file transfers over Wi-Fi, thanks to its use of both Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth LE for setup and high-speed data transfer.
This method is easy to use, but it is unreliable for a folder containing thousands of files and more than 20GB in size.
A. On the Sending and Receiving Mac:
- Open Finder.
- Click on “AirDrop” in the sidebar (or press
Cmd + Shift + R). - Ensure that “Allow me to be discovered by” is set to either “Everyone” or “Contacts Only” (the same applies to the receiving Mac).
- Wait for the other Mac to appear in the AirDrop window.
B. On the Sending Mac:
- Drag and drop files onto the icon for the receiving Mac.
C. On the Receiving Mac:
- A prompt will appear when the sender initiates the transfer:
- Click Accept.
- Choose to Save to Downloads (default) or a custom folder.
7. Copy data from one MacBook to another using SSH
- Folder to copy:
/Volumes/Bootcamp/alice - SSH access must be enabled on the destination MacBook (
System Settings > General > Sharing > Remote Login). - Destination Mac username:
admin - Destination IP address:
192.168.1.45 - Destination path:
/Users/admin/Documents/
On the source Mac (Terminal):
scp -r "/Volumes/Bootcamp/alice" [email protected]:/Users/admin/Downloads/