CMD‑R in any Open File dialogue in any app that uses standard dialogue system calls opens a separate Finder window right in the selected folder path (this one is pretty well known, but pretty damn useful so I am repeating it here).
BetterSnapTool, well worth the (small) price. Or Ventura has "hover over green button to show Tile Window to the Left/Right" and earlier OS versions had long‑press of the green button for the same, but I find BetterSnapTool easier still, as it has drag areas for tiling, customisable per application.
I still use Moom + Stay, I like the arbitrary window size setting and the automatic snap to the correct size/location by Stay on application launch.
Swish, https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/ let's you do trackpad gestures over the menubar to snap windows and several other things.
Substitutions -> Show Substitutions brings up a dialog box, and one of the buttons below is Text Preferences... which sure enough opens up System Preferences to text prefs, and then in turn every other system preference. Then I can connect the bluetooth keyboard and I'm set!
sips, which can do some light image manipulation (no need to break out Imagemagick for basic resize and crop operations at the command line):pbpaste and pbcopy-- those would be useful in my workflow fairly often if I could remember that they exist.)I'm still running 15.7.2 and it doesn't seem to work with that version. I assume it's a 16.x thing. Or, I'm holding it wrong.
It is very useful for determining your penguin type!
Is this available outside the US? Because it doesn't find any animal or plant in my photos. I'm using the latest macOS. Apple says Monterey supports the feature.
In terms of languages they only support 6 languages at the time I write this, which presumably will slowly expand. As far as just running the model on photos at all, IIRC it's all done locally and I don't remember hearing about (nor is there any clear reason for) any locale restrictions on that aspect since there is no cloud aspect either. The feature can work for me (just tested on an MBP and iPhone 12) even when fully offline in terms of just recognizing something is a "plant" or the like, and I do not use any sort of iCloud storage stuff. However having said that:
It's super hit&miss IME. I just went through a pile of photos I've taken in the last few months, and it won't identify anything in the majority of them, even in ones like of just my cats, sitting on a fallen dead center of the picture in the woods standing out like sore thumbs on a forest background. Or it'll notice one cat and not another side by side. Or conversely have really weird model hallucinations like leet posted above and a metaphysical penguin is found in a oak tree.
Option. (Used to be dual-labeled as both option and alt; not sure when Apple stopped doing that.)
That's not my experience, at all. After every release it finds more people in photos (and accurately classifies them) that have been in my albums all along. At this point it's reached the point of diminishing returns.
Probably because people started calling it the "Alt" key.
The "alt" label has been present on-and-off since the first Apple Extended Keyboard. Its presence (or absence) had nothing to do with Boot Camp.
I never used a windows keyboard. Some old Mac keyboards had an "alt" key, which may be an AZERTY keyboard specificity.
A1243 (the aluminium wired full‑size keyboard) still has the dual markings with option symbol and 'alt' – I wouldn't count that as that "old" (being one of their best keyboards IMHO). No idea if the ANSI version has it as well, but the EU QWERTY ones do...
I remember, back in the mid-90s, you could tell the difference between a 'power user' (remember them?) and a 'casual' by the way they would describe a keyboard shortcut. "CMD-ALT-SHIFT" = power user, "APPLE-OPTION-SHIFT"=casual.
You just unlocked a core memory of the Apple IIGS lab in my elementary school.
Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Background Sounds but then you can have it in Control Center via "Hearing" so easy to turn on and off. Also settings for turning off while other media is playing for example. I can see using this on flights when trying to sleep. I know a lot of people just have MP3s or apps or the like for this but still kind of a neat little thing to have available built-in.Oh, very neat, understated but quite useful feature. And honestly wow is a TON of cool/useful stuff that I wouldn't really think of as "accessibility" buried in Accessibility. Like the Auto-Brightness is buried in Display & Text Size, not Display & Brightness top level where I'd expect it, and nothing I can find in CC either. 99% of the time I leave it on auto and am fine with that, but sometimes the phone gets it wrong and I need to manually adjust. Then the only way to get it back is to dig on into settings, very strange, kind of irritating. There was a jailbreak tweak for that but I still don't think anything official?
If you’re looking for something with more options, the MyNoise app is pretty nice. Has a bunch more sound choices than just simple white noise, but the white noise generator itself is free and works well.
Seconding MyNoise, it's got an incredible range of background noise generators. I haven't used it pretty much since the pandemic hit, but it's delightful being able to queue up a nice rainstorm or the sound of an autumn in the forest and just tweak the soundscape to exactly how you like it.
