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Bob LeVitus
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November 6, 2018

macOS Mojave For Dummies

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Pro tips for macOS from “Dr. Mac”

Your shiny new iMac or trusty old MacBook both rely on macOS to help you get things done. It helps to have an equally reliable guidebook to steer you through the tasks and steps that make macOS run efficiently.

This fun and friendly guide provides the direction you need to easily navigate macOS. Longtime expert Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus shares his years of experience to help you better

understand macOS and make it a timesaving tool in your life.

  • Take a tour of the macOS interface
  • Get organized and save time with macOS applications
  • Get pro tips on speeding up your Mac
  • Back up your data with ease

Covering the fundamentals of the OS and offering insight into the most common functions of macOS, this is indispensable reading for new or inexperienced macOS users.

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About The Author

Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus has been writing the "Dr. Mac" column for the Houston Chronicle for more than 20 years. A regular contributor to a variety of technology publications, he's a proud Mac aficionado who's written or co-written more than 85 how-to books on all things Mac, including multiple Mac operating systems, the iPhone, the iPad, Office for the Mac, and GarageBand.

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Whether you’ve purchased a new Mac with macOS Mojave pre-installed or you’ve upgraded from a previous version of macOS, you’ll find that macOS Mojave makes your Mac easier to use and offers myriad improvements to make you more productive. Get additional information on things you should never do to your Mac; a compendium of useful and timesaving keyboard shortcuts; a discussion of when folders are too full and when (and when not) to create subfolders; recommendations for backing up data; and a short discussion of iDevices and Continuity.
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To learn about all things Macintosh and macOS Mojave, hop onto the web, check out these sites, and stuff your brain with Mac information: The Mac Observer offers insightful opinion pieces in addition to the usual Apple news and product reviews. The quality and depth of the writing at The Mac Observer is superior to most other sites covering the Apple beat.
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This System Preferences pane in macOS Mojave is mostly designed for users with disabilities or who have difficulty handling the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad. Select the Show Accessibility Status in Menu Bar check box at the bottom of the window on the left to see the status of all Accessibility Preferences in your menu bar.
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How full is too full? When should you begin creating subfolders in Mojave? That’s impossible to say, at least in a one-size-fits-all way, but having too many items in a folder can be a nightmare — as can having too many subfolders with just one or two files in each one.If you find more than 15 or 20 files in a single folder, begin thinking about ways to subdivide it.
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When working in macOS Mojave, would you like to ensure that you won’t lose more than a little work no matter what happens — even if your office burns, floods, is destroyed by tornado, hurricane, or earthquake, or robbed? If so, you might want to follow the setup described here.I am continually testing new backup solutions, so the software I use can change from month to month.
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All Macs are Energy Star–compliant (and have been for years), allowing you to preset your machine to turn itself off at a specific time or after a specified idle period. To manage your Mac’s energy-saving features, open the Energy Saver System Preferences pane by choosing Apple→System Preferences and clicking the Energy Saver icon.
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Make your work go faster with these macOS Mojave keyboard shortcuts. Print this chart and refer to it while using macOS Mojave. Command Keyboard Shortcut Add Selected Item to Dock Command+Control+Shift+T Add Selected Item to Sidebar Command+Control+T Close All Windows Option+Command+W Close Window Command+W Copy Command+C Cut Command+X Duplicate Command+D Eject Disk Command+E Empty Trash Shift+Command+Delete Find Command+F Get Info (on selected item or items) Command+I Go to All My Files Shift+Command+F Go to Applications Folder Shift+Command+A Go to Desktop Shift+Command+D Go to Documents Folder Shift+Command+O Go to Home Folder Shift+Command+H Help Shift+Command+?
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Introduced in 2011, the Mac App Store is the largest catalog of Mac software in the world. In macOS Mojave, the App Store has been redesigned with a clean new look, expanded editorial content, and even videos of some apps in action.If you’ve already installed Mojave, you don’t have the old App Store for comparison.
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If you’ve been a Mac user for a while, you might have noticed that the venerable Screenshot (formerly Grab) app, the app you use to manage screen capture features including timed shots and cursor visibility, is no longer in your Utilities folder in macOS Mojave.In its place, Mojave has more and better screen-shooting capabilities than any version of macOS before it.
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The Quick Look command in macOS Mojave displays the contents of the selected file in a floating window. The key point is that it’s built into Mojave, so you can see what’s in a file without double-clicking (to open) it and without launching an application.This feature is handy when you want to peek at the contents of a file without having to open it.
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Continuity Camera may be macOS Mojave’s coolest and most useful new feature. It lets you use your iOS device as a camera or scanner for your Mac.Before you try it, here are the rules: Both devices (Mac and iDevice) must be logged into the same Apple ID. Both devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
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Speech Recognition enables your Mac running macOS Mojave to recognize and respond to human speech. The only thing you need to use it is a microphone, which most of you have built right into your Mac (unless it’s a Mac Mini or Mac Pro).Speech Recognition lets you issue verbal commands such as “Get my mail!” to your Mac and have it actually get your email.
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In the expanded view of macOS Mojave, if you press the Tab key while the Save As field is active, it becomes inactive, and the search box becomes active. Press Tab again, and the sidebar becomes active. Press the Tab key one more time, and the file list box (more accurately known as the detail pane — the part with Icon, List, Column, or Cover Flow view buttons in it) becomes active.
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Boot Camp is macOS Mojave’s built-in technology that allows you to run Microsoft Windows 10 and (on some Mac models) Windows 7 or 8 on Mojave–capable Macs. If your Mac meets the following requirements, you can run Windows on your Mac (if you so desire): A Mojave–capable Mac (of course) A hard drive that isn’t already partitioned (Optional) A printer (for printing the instructions) It’s optional ‘cause you could just email them to yourself … .
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The Apple News app in macOS Mojave gathers articles, images, and videos you might be interested in and displays them in a visually appealing fashion. Participating publishers include ESPN, The New York Times, Hearst, Time, Inc., CNN, Condé Nast, Bloomberg, and many more. What are your interests? You can customize what appears in your News app by scrolling down in the sidebar and clicking the Discover Channels & Topics button at its bottom.
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The Home app, new to macOS Mojave, is all about controlling from your Mac smart HomeKit accessories such as smart door locks, lightbulbs, thermostats, garage-door openers, and other devices that lend themselves to being smartened and controlled remotely.The good news is that with Mojave’s new Home app you can turn lights on and off, lock and unlock doors, and do much more, right from your Mac, as long as the accessories are compatible with HomeKit, Apple’s framework for controlling smart devices around your house, and are connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Mac.
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If you’re familiar with the Stocks app from your iDevices, you’re in for a treat because the Stocks app has been overhauled to make it easier to view stock quotes, interactive charts, and top business news from Apple News.When you launch Stocks for the first time, it’s populated with a default set of quotes, indexes Apple thinks you might appreciate, as shown.
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Voice Memos is a new addition from iOS to macOS Mojave; it's a simple one-trick-pony of an app that lets you record, play back, and share short audio recordings.Consider all the times you’d find it useful to have an audio recorder in your MacBook — perhaps when you’re attending a lecture or interviewing an important source (a big deal for writers).
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macOS Mojave comes with a plethora of useful utilities that make using your computer more pleasant or make you more productive when you use your computer or both. The first item, Calculator, is in your Applications folder (Go →  Applications; keyboard shortcut: Command+Shift+A). All other items mentioned in this article are in your Utilities folder (Go→ Utilities; keyboard shortcut: Command +Shift+U), which you’ll find inside your Applications folder.
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Treat your Mac and macOS Mojave with care. To keep your work and leisure projects safe, never do any of these things with your Mac: Never shut off your Mac by pulling the plug. Always use the Shut Down command from the Apple menu in Mojave (or press the power button and then click the Shut Down button). If you’re using a laptop, you can usually get away with pulling the plug while it’s running because the battery automatically kicks in.
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It’s been many years — way back in the days when Apple named its operating systems after jungle cats — since a macOS upgrade included as many improvements to Finder. And, having been around on the Mac in some form since 1984, Finder was surely due for some love.You’ll love what they’ve done with Finder in Mojave.
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Continuity is the blanket term for a set of features in Mojave and iOS 8 or newer that allow you to seamlessly move between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.At present, four features provide Continuity: Handoff: Start working on an email or document on one device (your Mac, for example), and pick up where you left off on another Apple device such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
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Whether you’ve purchased a new Mac with macOS Mojave pre-installed or you’ve upgraded from a previous version of macOS, you’ll find that macOS Mojave makes your Mac easier to use and offers myriad improvements to make you more productive. Get additional information on things you should never do to your Mac; a compendium of useful and timesaving keyboard shortcuts; a discussion of when folders are too full and when (and when not) to create subfolders; recommendations for backing up data; and a short discussion of iDevices and Continuity.
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