「mac tips」

A list of macOS defaults commands with demos ✨

defaults allow you to change settings on your mac. they are great to put in a shell script so that you can setup a new mac with your favorites easily

mac tip → make your activity monitor icon show information

launch terminal and enter in

defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor IconType -int 5

you can change the 5 at the end with one of the following…

0 → default

2 → show network usage over time

3 → show disk usage over time

5 → show current cpu usage as vertical meter

6 → show cpu history graphed over

mac tip → tracking packages

if you are in a email, notes app, document, etc you can track shipments by highlighting the tracking number → right click → click “Track shipment…” this works with USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL and more. really handy, it doesn’t work in all apps.