Several Best Tips & Tricks for Mac OS X El Captain

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Mac OS X El Capitan launched on 30 September 2015, and people keep discovering clever things it can do. Here are some of my favourite tips, tricks and clever new features in Mac OS X El Capitan. Hope you enjoy the discover.

Best new features in El Capitan

With Mac OS X El Capitan (which arrived on Macs on 30 September 2015), Apple is focusing on performance and introducing only a handful of new features – but the feature set makes up in quality for what it lacks in quantity.

Among the enhancements in the next version of Mac OS X there will be tweaks to the interface, new full-screen views, changes to the way you arrange all the windows on your desktop, a smarter Spotlight, and changes to the Safari, Notes and Photos apps.

Turn to the next slide in this feature to start discovering 23 amazing tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of Mac OS X El Capitan’s new features and improvements.

Cursor locator

Our favourite new feature might just be the new way to find your cursor.

Just shake your mouse, or wiggle your finger on the trackpad: it’s what we all do instinctively, but doing so will now make the cursor grow in size momentarily so you will have no trouble spotting it.

How to stop your cursor from getting bigger

For many of us one of the most useful new features in El Capitan is the way that you can easily locate your cursor by rapidly rubbing your track pad or moving your mouse quickly, as mentioned in the previous slide.

This is particularity useful if you have more than one monitor and lose your cursor often.

However, some people need to move their cursor rapidly for other reasons, perhaps when using illustration apps.

It is possible to disable this cursor behaviour if you need to. Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and deselect Shake mouse pointer to locate.

El Capitan Exposé

An older Exposé behaviour has returned to the Mission Control view.

In Mac OS X Yosemite, when you press F3 (or the key that represents Mission Control on your keyboard – if it’s a Mac keyboard it will be marked with three small boxes), documents associated with apps are gathered together, overlapping each other.

In El Capitan things are a little simpler and clearer – and in our opinion, better. You’ll see minimised views of all the documents you had open so you can see and select the one you want.

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