Tips for effective work in Mountain Lion. Part 2

We continue a series of tips for effective work in Mountain Lion (see. Part 1 here). In OS X 10.8, many useful properties of the system necessarily hidden in the wilds of configuration files - often enough to press little-known shortcut keys to execute a command, to which previously had to wade through numerous menus and dialogs.

6. Instantly launch voice reading

If your Mac you frequently use text reading function in "Mountain Lion" is enough to press the key option+escThe system began to read aloud to the current document, email or web page. It is noteworthy that the above combination of keys in Safari 6 further reveals a read means (the respective button in the address field).

If you need to listen to only a certain text fragment, select it with the mouse and click again the same option+esc.

7. Transfer Panel universal access funds

The "Mountain Lion" also appeared very convenient mechanism for switching universal access funds: scaling a display image, inverting color, sound interface elements sticking keys and so on. d. press the keys

command+option+F5- and the system will immediately pop-up panel, where it remains only to put down the necessary "tick".

8. The path to the file, folder or application in the text

For example, in some blog post you can see the directory address ~ / Library / Preferences. Typically, such an address is copied, transferred in the Finder, shake keys command+shift+GIs inserted into the pop-up text box, copied address, shake "input" - and only then go to the folder path that was specified in the original text.

It is too long. Much easier to select a path with the mouse and click on the selection of the text, right-click. In the context menu you should uviditet team Properties (Show Info), Show (Reveal) and Open (Open) (Often they can be in the menu group Services (Services)).

If you click on the team Properties (Show Info)Open standard Finder window with information about the object, whose path you have selected (in this case it is a folder Preferences in OS X library, located in your home directory). Team Show (Reveal) open window "Finder," in which the folder is highlighted. And in point Open (Open) you open the appropriate object - the folder will open in the file manager, file - corresponding to its format of application, and if this is the path to the program - run the program itself. However, in the latter case, the OS X may ask you to confirm the launch of the application. Try, for example, open TextEdit through its path: /Applications/TextEdit.app.

In the case, if in the context menu of commands is not visible (for example, Firefox is steadily on the side lets OS X system services, applications embedded in the context menu), open the group Services (Services) menu with the name of the current application (for example, Firefox> Service) - the allocation of the path to an object file system commands specified there should appear.

9. Simple start-up wizard diagnostic Wi-Fi

To run the utility "Diagnostics Wi-Fi», optional get into the wilds of system services OS X (Although to know the physical location of the program will not be superfluous) simply by holding down optionClick the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar - the lowest team pop-up menu will open for you the program. However, this method works only on the condition that at the moment your Mac does not distribute on the Internet "wi-Faya".

10. Instead, iCloud - internal drive

Apple quite actively promoting its "IT-cloud" as a standard data warehouse, including office documents. That is why in the TextEdit application, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and in a number of third-party products save dialog offers constantly write new files to the "cloud."

However, not all users are willing to accept the idea - many still prefer to save their data on a local drive. The situation can be corrected by specifying the system as a standard entry in the file local drive. To do this in the "Terminal", enter the command:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

After restarting an app that before all time lomilos in iCloud, will initially open a Save dialog in one of the folders on the local drive. To return the behavior of the application to its original state, instead of the false in the above command should be inserted true:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool true