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Mac Tip: Prioritizing Your WiFi Connections

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Tired of your Mac always connecting to the wrong WiFi network? Does your Mac connect to the neighborhood WiFi network before it connects to your home network? Is the downstairs Starbucks’ WiFi connecting all the time instead of your office WiFi? If you’re facing these or similar issues, fortunately there’s a very easy fix: setting your Mac’s WiFi priority order.

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This is how to find out your MacBook battery cycle count

The life expectancy of a notebook battery is mostly based on the battery cycle count. Once that battery cycle count has reached the limit set by the manufacturer, it is considered consumed, and although the laptop might still perform the same, battery life might deplete rapidly, a clear sign it is time to replace that battery. In this post, we will show you how to find out what your MacBook’s battery cycle count is.

How do you calculate a battery cycle?

A battery cycle count is calculated based on the use of all the battery’s power, but not necessarily on a single charge. For example, if your MacBook is charged at 100% and you use 50% of your battery, then charge it back to 100%, then use another 50% of battery, it will equal to one battery cycle (50+50=100).

Likewise, if you use 20% of your battery then charge it back to 100% five times, it will equal to one battery cycle (20+20+20+20+20=100).

How to determine a MacBook’s battery cycle count

To find out what your MacBook’s battery cycle is, go to  > About This Mac > System Report, and select the Power tab, under Hardware. In the right panel, you will find the Cycle Count, as showed below.

What is your MacBook battery cycle count limit?

Knowing your battery cycle count is great, but it doesn’t help much if you don’t know what your machine’s limit is. The limit is set by Apple and gives a good indication of the overall life expectancy of your battery. Compare the calculated cycle count to Apple’s limits set to specific machines to find out how your battery is fairing.

I have a 13-inch MacBook Air from mid 2011, and the maximum cycle count set by Apple is 1,000. As you can see above, I have reached 351 battery cycles, or about one third of the limit, so it seems that theoretically, my battery should still last a while longer.

Time-Saving Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac Terminal #Terminal #Linux #Mac #OSX

A big hurdle a lot of people face when learning to use the terminal is the fact that it feels slow compared to navigating around in Finder or other GUIs. Using the terminal doesn’t have to feel slow. Once you learn a few keyboard shortcuts, it can greatly increase the speed at which you can navigate and run commands within the command line.

In this video we’ll be going over some of the keyboard…

Resize Multiple Images Using the Mac Terminal and the sips command. #Mac #OSX #Terminal #WebDesign

One problem I run into frequently is needing to resize multiple images at once. To do this manually would take way too much time, especially if you have a lot of images.

Luckily, there are several good tools out the to automate this process for us. In this video we will be resizing multiple images using the Mac Terminal and the built-in “sips” command.

If you are someone who is more comfortable…

I am frequently taking screenshots of what I am doing on screen. It’s useful to know all the options you have in order to make this quick and simple. In this video, I’ll go over the different ways in which you can take some basic screen shots on your Mac, and look a few advanced techniques as well.

Keyboard Shortcuts Used:

Cmd + Shift + 3: Capture Whole Screen

Cmd + Shift + 4: Capture a Selected…