The macOS App Store is home to a great many applications and you could potentially get an application for practically anything. But while you’re busy foraging for new apps, it’s easy to miss out on the stock Mac apps. Apple packages a considerable measure of helpful applications into the Mac and today I’ll educate you concerning 7 convenient inherent Mac applications you may not think about:
1.Digital Colour Meter:
It is a niftylittle device that shows the RGB/hexadecimal values of a colour for just about any part of the screen. This is especially useful for originators, who want to quickly get the value of any colour on the screen without trying to install any third-party apps.
To access it, open up the Spotlight search (CMD+Space) and type in “Digital Color Meter”.
Alternatively, you can also find it by going to “Finder” —> “Applications”. Pressing CMD+Shift+C copies the colour code to the clipboard.
2. Emoji/Unicode Viewer:
Mac flaunts a unified place to access all the Unicode characters, including emojis. To raise Character Viewer, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space from anyplace. Here, you can see all the emojis perfectly ordered. Emojis carry a description below them, which enables you to quickly search for an emoji. For example, this is the thing that shows up when I scan for an emoji for “cry” —
Simply double tap on the emoji and it gets copied to the open text entry field. You can do likewise with bolts, bullets and other special characters. Step up your emoji game by finding the exact emoji for your emotion!
3. Grab:
At this point, you most likely realize that you can take screenshots on a Mac using keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+Shift+3). However, Mac includes one greater utility to add some favor alternatives to the built-in screenshot tool. To access these extra options, open Spotlight (Cmd+Space), type in “Grab” and press Enter.
The Grab application doesn’t have a visible Window; however, you can see Grab’s menu bar thing on the top. Tap on the “Capture” menu item. This unveils two better approaches to capture your screen.
The “Window” choice permits you to capture the full window screen. The “Timed screen” alternative permits you set a timer to capture screen automatically after 10 seconds.
4. Image Capture:
Image Capture permits you to rapidly import photographs to your Mac from any USB-connected iPhone/iPad or digital camera. Open up Spotlight (Cmd+Space), type in “Image Capture” and press Enter.
Connect your iPhone/iPad/digital camera and you should see it listed in the “Devices” tab on the left-hand side. All the photos and videos from your device should be displayed here. To copy the photos/videos to your Mac, simply simplified them to anyplace on your Mac.
An important thing to note is that Image Capture allows you to import photos to your Mac, not a different way. If you want to import photographs to your iPhone/iPad, you’d need to utilize iTunes or any comparable options.
5.Grapher:
Grapher is one of the most underrated utilities on Mac. Grapher lets you enter an equation and plots the relevant graph for it. It can plot complex 2D and 3D diagrams. To open it, type in “Grapher” in the Spotlight search.
It additionally has a great deal of 2D and 3D example graphs to get you started. On the customization front, you can change graph line style, arrow style and colors. Grapher is a power-packed tool and can be truly useful for all the fellow maths aficionados out there!
6.On-screen Keyboard:
Most Mac users do not know that their Mac comes with an on-screen keyboard, although I wouldn’t blame them given that it is tucked away in the settings. To enable the on-screen console, explore to “Framework inclinations” — > “Console” and check the crate where it says, “Show console and Emoji watcher in the menu bar”.
An icon similar to as shown below should be added to your menu bar. Click on “Show Keyboard Viewer” here.
A virtual on-screen should pop-out now. It can be resized to fit on any screen and it always stays on top, so you can type within any application window.
This can come truly helpful when any of your hardware keyboard buttons don’t work anymore or you are quite recently careful about hardware keyloggers stealing your sensitive data.
7. Automator:
Automator is a powerful tool included with macOS, which permits you to automate everyday tasks on your Mac like renaming multiple files or converting one video format to another. Type in “Automator” in the Spotlight search and press Enter. On the first run, it’ll present you with the option to choose the kind of document.
A “Workflow” document will permit you to construct custom work processes (guidelines) that can be executed from Automator. An “Application” document would allow you to build the same workflow but it could run from anywhere outside of Automator.
You can choose the files/folders you want to receive as input and then trigger certain activities on them like — batch renaming them. The “library” choice offers access to many activities to be activated.
You can also click on the “Record” button on the top right-hand side to record a series of mouse/key-presses, so that you can “Run” it later for repetitive tasks.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Automator is a vast and powerful application. You may want to search the web for Automator workflows or just poke around the app to make some really cool workflows.