Mac will make a Poof sound, and the app disappears. If you want to remove an app from the Dock, you can click on the app icon, drag the icon without releasing the touch and then stopped touching the touchpad. Then you can right-click on the app and select Options->Keep in Dock. If you want to add an app, it must be running, so it becomes active in the Dock.
You can configure the Dock by adding or removing apps. Active apps have a little dot under the icon (in the pic above, you can see that both Safari and Google Chrome browsers are currently active). It is also a place where you can see currently running apps even if they were not in the Dock initially. The Dock is a place where you can have icons of the applications you use most often.
In the picture below, I marked two main controls: I use Spotlight Search for following things: Try following: press Command button and then hit Spacebar. This is the best feature of all in any Mac. Learn more here about right click and other keyboard shortcuts. Press the control button and then touch the trackpad.Touch the trackpad with two fingers simultaneously.There are two ways to right click (also called a Secondary Click) on MacBook:
Once I learned how to use MacBooks, I fell in love with Macs. After all, I was a programmer, and he was a sales rep.Īfter this accident, I decided to stop being arrogant and learn how to do things on Macs the Apple way. Needless to say, I was extremely embarrassed. One day I mentioned this fact in front of a sales guy, and he showed me how to do it. I even came to the conclusion that stupid Macs don’t have right-click functionality, the cornerstone of every Windows app. I tried to press on all parts of the trackpad (the sensitive area under the keyboard in the middle) but couldn’t invoke the right click. I must admit I didn’t know how to right-click for at least a year after having my first MacBook. If you ask what the absolute minimum any MacBook user must know, I will name two: right click and Spotlight Search. And finally, learn how to use advanced topics, such as Siri and backing up with Time Machine.
Then learn how to install new apps without getting a virus on your MacBook. So, how a beginner can learn using MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? If you are switching from PC, you need to learn keyboard shortcuts, Spotlight Search, and Finder. I guarantee, in the end, you will know more than 95% of users who have been using Mac for years. All you need is to read this blog and open each link I have to other posts I wrote. I don’t want you to waste a year, so I assembled an absolute minimum you need to know to use Macs efficiently. It took me almost a year to learn basics. With my next purchase, MacBook Air, I didn’t have enough space to install Windows, so I had to learn how to use macOS (Apple’s operating system). So, I installed Windows using Bootcamp and used it as a PC. Result: equally useless as PDF Pen.Īs a simple summary I suggest you spend the $129 for PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa.When I bought my first Mac (it was Mac mini), I absolutely hated it.
For the record: PDF Pen = Nuance PDF Converter for Mac. Now you don't have to wonder, why PDF Pen is using the OCR engine of Nuance :-). As soon as I had the tool installed, I had to realise, that it was nothing else than PDF Pen under a different hood.
Unfortunately there is no trial version available, but the refunding worked fine without problems. Nuance PDF Coneverter for Mac: I bougth this tool as it offers a redaction functionality. My contact with the support never brought a solution so far over a time of several weeks. all scanned files) PDF Pen has big problems and messes up your file so it gets irreversibly unusable. Therefore the functionality is limited to a files who are by chance compatible with this tool. Be careful about this tool: it messes up your PDFs completely as you redact. PDF Pen: PDF Pen seems to be a nice tool and it offers a nice reaction functionality - seems to at least. I tried several other possibilities, which all don't work properly:Īpple Preview: this application allows to visually hide parts of a pdf behind a box, but it is always possible to remove the box or copy / paste the text behind as the sensitive information is NOT removed from the file! Note that you need the PRO version, as the standard version lacks the ability of redaction.
It is a solid part of software and according to my extensive tests the only tool that is really able to redact safely PDF files. PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa ( ): This tool really gives you virtually the whole functionality of Acrobat Pro.It took me rather long time to find a real good alternative to Acrobat Pro: As Acrobat Pro CD is much to expensive for me as a private non-profit user, I was looking for an alternativ. The subject of redation of PDF files seems to be a difficult subject concerning programming.