{"id":168,"date":"2019-03-30T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/?p=168"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:23:18","slug":"using-and-tweaking-macos-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/2019\/03\/30\/using-and-tweaking-macos-mojave\/","title":{"rendered":"Using and Tweaking MacOS Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t found much worthwhile for Mojave yet, and some of what I’ve found is annoying (see Security Annoyances section below).\u00a0 This post contains several of the things that I’ve found while acclimatizing to Mojave.<\/p>\n

Dark Mode and Night Owl<\/h3>\n

It’s amazing how many people remark how great Dark Mode is.\u00a0 I like it, myself, but I see it as the main change with Mojave and not worth a new OS installation.\u00a0 Anyhow, I like Dark Mode (a feature upon which the screen mostly goes dark and important things like test are white, i.e., mainly the colors are inverted from the traditional scheme), but I don’t want to use Dark Mode all the time.\u00a0 I found a free utility that allows one to manually change back and forth between the modes easily or set an automatic schedule (awesome).\u00a0 Night Owl is available at\u00a0https:\/\/nightowl.kramser.xyz\/ .<\/p>\n

Spectacle and Window Sizing<\/h3>\n

While getting used to Mojave, I found a replacement for all the apps like Better Snap ZTool, Better Text Tool, and Window Tidy that I normally use to be able to resize app windows to half or quarter size. Spectacle is a free app that does the same thing so I am using that now.\u00a0 It is available at\u00a0https:\/\/www.spectacleapp.com\/ .\u00a0 And it’s absolutely worth spending the time to learn the hotkey shortcuts!<\/p>\n

Recent Apps Showing up on Dock<\/p>\n

Just like natural scrolling came a few years ago, Apple added a feature to\u00a0keep recent applications listed on the\u00a0dock and made it the default for Mojave.\u00a0 If you don’t like that, you can turn it off by going to the Dock tab on System Preferences and deselecting the option called “Show recent applications in Dock.”<\/p>\n

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Onyx for System Maintenance<\/h3>\n

I run my\u00a0Mac a lot harder than most so I find it useful to run a maintenance app like Onyx from time to time.\u00a0 Luckily, Titanium Software has wonderfully updated their Onyx app to support Mojave.\u00a0 I only recommend this app to power users, and the app is available at\u00a0https:\/\/www.titanium-software.fr\/en\/onyx.html .<\/p>\n

Security Annoyances<\/h3>\n

In earlier versions, you would get several requests to confirm app requests on a security level, but now, even if I approve a particular app with access to another app, I still get the warnings.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t found much worthwhile for Mojave yet, and some of what I’ve found is annoying (see Security Annoyances section below).\u00a0 This post contains several of the things that I’ve found while acclimatizing to Mojave. Dark Mode and Night Owl It’s amazing how many people remark how great Dark Mode is.\u00a0 I like it, myself, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/itoddjob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}