![]() From System Preferences, check out the General tab.įinder will set your appearance to Auto by default, meaning your computer will be light during the day and dark in the evening. General Settingsįinder’s controllable general settings offer a lot of flexibility for your day-to-day workflows. A password might seem inconvenient, but it will definitely protect you from prying fingers. As a desktop iMac user in a secure space, I went with 5 minutes but whenever I bring my laptop somewhere, I change that option to Immediately.Īside from essential documents that I wouldn’t want to lose, I also have my Apple ID connected to the computer. There you can set up a password and choose how quickly that password is required after your computer lid is closed or the computer goes to sleep. Head over to the Security & Privacy options in System Preferences and go to the General tab. That’s why I recommend setting a computer password right away. Keeping your computer secure, especially if it’s a laptop and you’ll be traveling with it, is crucial. ![]() For me, I want to turn off my computer screen when I watch TV, so I just swipe my mouse to the upper left corner, and right away, my computer is asleep-no need to hunt down that command in a menu. On the bottom right of the Screen Saver menu is the Hot Corners option.īy setting up an action for each corner of your screen, you can tell your computer what to do once you put the mouse there. But not this one, because if you keep reading, I’m going to tell you about my favorite thing in this menu. You can choose from a variety of screensavers like the good old Word of the Day, which I fondly remember playing on all of the iMac’s we had when I was in high school, to a custom message reminding you to stop procrastinating reading articles on the internet. The Screen Saver tab at the top of the panel will let you do just that. If you have a laptop computer, you should absolutely be setting up a Screen Saver. ![]() This way, my computer always feels fresh with new artwork in the background each morning. I like to set my pictures to change every day, and I choose a Random Order. Once you’ve picked the location of the images you’d like to use for your background, you can further customize your desktop by setting it to Change Picture at select intervals, like daily or hourly, or gosh, every 5 seconds if you want a headache. Now you can select from any of the images in that folder. Here you can click on the Plus Sign near the bottom of the panel to add a folder from your computer to this panel. That’s very simple to do by navigating down to the Folders option. Although I love these little monsters, I like to find amazing art from the internet and set that as my desktop background.
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