Reader Mailbag: Maintain Your Mac
On Windows you defragment the drives and run anti-virus software to keep things running smoothly, but when you’re using OS X what are the recommended maintenance procedures?
On Windows you defragment the drives and run anti-virus software to keep things running smoothly, but when you’re using OS X what are the recommended maintenance procedures?
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Keyboard shortcuts are a quick way of getting many things done without needing to access the menus or the mouse. If you know to press command-s to save your work, you’ve used a keyboard shortcut. For people who primarily use a keyboard or a switch interface, using keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time and effort.
There have been a lot of articles on a lot of websites about accessibility and disability and assistive technology as they relate to the iPad since the specifications were first released. Now that people obtain the iPads to use themselves, the pace of articles is still increasing.
MacSpeech have released a major paid upgrade for Dictate users to MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, as well as a new product Dictate Medical for those using MacSpeech Dictate in medical and health-related fields.
SloMotionX is a utility program that can be used to slow down games - or other programs - to make them more accessible to OS X users with disabilities.
Trying to learn to use a new program and memorise many commands at the same time as you are learning the art of dictation is always going to be difficult. Happily, there is one thing which you can do that will greatly increase the chances that you will learn to use MacSpeech Dictate usefully.