Total Darkness shortcut

In order to adjust the brightness our your Mac to total darkness (0%), you’d have to press and hold down a function key F1. There is however a shortcut to get your Mac to total darkness simply by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject. This will only sleep the display saving battery power when you take a quick break. Press any key to bring the brightness back to its original state.

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Spring-clean your Mac

If you are a Mac user then you will notice how little you have to spring clean your Mac. Apart from the daily dusting or finger print screen cleaning, mac Paw has released CleanMyMac. I have tried it out and works really good. Here’s what they say.

CleanMyMac represents sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy. With just two simple clicks you can delete useless files that basically pile up and waste your valuable disk space. CleanMyMac allows enjoying smooth system performance combining such vital features as Slim Universal Binaries, Clean Unneeded Languages, Logs Rotation, Clean Caches, Quick and Secure Erase, Application Uninstallation, and Killing Trash Left From Buried Applications. CleanMyMac can save gigabytes of disk space and enhance your computer speed. Go ahead and give it a shot! Your Mac will definitely be grateful!

Any application running on your Mac leaves numerous support files, which won’t just get to Trash once you remove the app. CleanMyMac will locate and erase all “leftovers” from your system files to enable you to easily install and uninstall new programs whenever you need.

The more junk files are stored on your Mac the slower it will work. Processes of saving and storing unnecessary files take your priceless time. Using CleanMyMac will professionally help your Mac reduce the amount of operations required for your online and offline activities.

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Download YouTube videos in HD

Every internet users loves to watch YouTube, but ironically only some groups of people know how to download free YouTube videos easily with least effort required.

Initially, we can only download free YouTube videos in FLV format. Until not long ago, YouTube has released high quality MP4 video as an additional feature for its users. It will be really satisfying if those MP4s can be downloaded.

The good news is, we know two tricks that can be used to download HD YouTube Video. And we feel that it’s such a great honor to share these.

Download with Activity Monitor
Everything that is visible to eyes are downloadable and for Safari web browser, all files can be spotted inside Activity Monitor. Amongst all of files listed inside, there exists a file linking to the HD Video. To spot and download it, follow these steps.

1. Open YouTube URL to video. Append URL with &fmt=18 to view HD video
2. Show up Activity Monitor (Command-Option-A)
3. Seek for file with largest size and Option-Click it
4. The download should be started with default name video.mp4

For Firefox users, HD YouTube video is downloadable using bookmarklet. Just drop the bookmarklet on Bookmark Bar and click on it when you are opening YouTube page. New link will appear afterwards.


Bookmarklet to Download YouTube HD
Here is the bookmarklet: YouTube HD
Drag it to your Bookmarks Bar and it will look like screenshot below.