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You know that you can use macOS’s screenshot facility to capture videos of what’s happening on your Mac’s screen, right? Press Shift-Command-5 to discover the options to record an entire screen or part of one, if you’ve never come across that before. You can quickly trim videos taken of games Barry Collins Lookup is found in the right-click menu of most Apple apps and many third-party apps, too. It also acts as a thesaurus, giving you synonyms of single words and phrases.Īmong its many other uses, it can also help you find out more about places, people and companies. You can use it as a dictionary, if you come across a word you don’t understand. Lookup is super-useful in all kinds of scenarios. If you need to find out more, there’s a link to the planet’s Wikipedia page too. You can drag over the planet’s name until it’s selected in the web browser, right click the mouse/trackpad and select Lookup to find out that “Gilese 1132 b is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gilese 1132” and that it’s “40 light years from Earth,” which means it’s probably not an ideal escape pod once global warming cooks us all here. It makes mention of the planet’s name - catchily titled GJ 1132 b - and you’d like to find out more about it. Let’s say you’re reading this fascinating Forbes article about the discovery of a planet similar to Earth. The easiest way to find it is to Spotlight search (Command key + spacebar) for ‘hot corners’, click on the ‘Desktop & screen saver’ option that appears and then click on Hot Corners. Hot Corners can also be set to activate a screensaver, lock the screen and open Mission Control, amongst other things. Now I have Application Windows set to my bottom-right Hot Corner, so if I hover my mouse in that corner, macOS reveals all the open windows of the active application.

However, I’ve partially solved that with Hot Corners.

So, say, you have two documents open in Word, it’s difficult to flick the between the two. One of the most irritating things I find about macOS is the way it handles multiple windows in the same app.

Hot Corners are a great feature that let you activate certain features by dangling your mouse in one of the four corners of the screen. Hot Corners are quick way to activate functions Barry Collins