Tutorial: How To Do More With Your Mac

Tutorial: How to do more with your Mac

Get more productive with these applications Mac

The delay is much more varied than it was. If you were a writer before 90, for example, is likely to hammering in a typewriter or word processor simple every day, and when he was in his office to work.

It is not true today: assuming you have an Internet connection, your Mac can use the unlimited distractions.

And even if you do not have an Internet connection, there are many applications and games competing for attention, trying to seduce out of work.

The curious break is good (although a break from your Mac is better than where you live in front of the screen). But these days, it is very easy to take regular breaks, control of the last e-mail or instant messages, new tweets, or any other warning.

Research has shown that it takes time for many people to reintegrate into the work intended, which means that if you are still offline, you're not focused and productive.

There are two things that can help you be more productive on your Mac: change their habits and use of software that requires you to concentrate on a task.

With regard to the habits, stop checking email so often. If you use Mail, set Check for new messages (in the general settings) for each hour or a lower frequency, and disable the Growl support for all applications where your knowledge of the updates is not critical. In some cases, you may be able to refine these updates to Twitter, where you can use the preferences to disable the messages for general tweets, but let them direct messages.

We cover some of the programs, shows how three useful applications for the Mac App Store can help productivity. They are quiet (£ 2.49), BetterSnapTool (£ 1.49) and Time Sink (£ 2.99).

Apps used to be more productive

1. Silent Setup

Starting quietly, appears in the menu bar. Select Settings and then click General. Check the Hide Dock so the Dock is hidden during isolation. (Also, learn to Command + Option + D to get rid of the Dock at other times.) Choose an option from the bottom, to define when one is alone.

2. Define a shortcut

Click the next field to focus on the application. Set a keyboard shortcut to activate the confinement as Option + Shift + F. Go to any smooth open and use the shortcut. You should find all other windows, menu bar and Dock are hidden from view.

3. See Second App

Use Tab command to open the application-switcher. Select an application and will, in isolation mode. Use the shortcut to disable and re-isolation mode at will. If you like quiet, check launch when connected to your preferences.

4. Use BetterSnapTool

Launch BetterSnapTool and select Preferences from the menu bar menu extra. Select the keyboard shortcuts. Click Next to optimize and press Command + Option + Ctrl + Up Arrow.

Pressing this combination will now zoom in a program window to full screen, and allows you to focus.

5. Connect quiet

If you stay quiet and you can also use BetterSnapTool, with a couple of shortcuts, not only make your active window to full screen, but also hide the menu bar at the bar, and applications. If you use a mouse, use the equivalent from the additional menu bar.

6. Vai split-screen

BetterSnapTool allows you to use the menus or shortcuts to divide the screen into two halves, quarters and thirds. Assign shortcuts to these opportunities and switch to insulation, make two or three applications back and give up their window for a portion of the screen.

7th Set Up

Start time sink sink and open the General section of preferences. Set Suspend ... possibility of sufficient duration, indicating inactivity for your work. This will automatically pause the timer time sink your Mac must be only for that period.

8. Check the weather wells

Even if it is running, sink Now calculate how long each application has been opened and how long it has been at the forefront, highlighting, when working or wasting time. Using the export settings, you can take a daily report, if you want to keep track of the models.