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8 Useful Tweaks You Can Easily Make To Your Mac's Operating System
Your Mac speaks Unix, so when you communicate with it in its native language, it pays attention.
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Using Terminal, an app that comes with ever Apple computer, you can use Unix commands to trick out your Mac in a number of ways that aren't normally possible.
We found a collection of cool Unix tweaks shared by Belgian web developer Mathias Bynens. Here are our favorites that you can copy and paste into Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras -array "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu" "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu" "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu" "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location -string "$HOME/Desktop"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllExtensions -bool true
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false
defaults write com.twitter.twitter-mac openLinksInBackground -bool true
defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool true
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