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        Sharing my favorite top 20 Mac shortcuts

         

        These shortcuts make me save more time at work. Try them out and see the difference they’ll make:

        1. Open the Spotlight Search Tool

        Command + Space bar

        This is perhaps the most helpful Mac shortcut of all. Anytime you search for a file on your Mac, use this keyboard shortcut and type the file’s name. The result is instant. Also, Spotlight will search through bookmarks, iMessages, and all the files on your hard drive. This shortcut also offers a quick way to find and open applications that aren’t on your dock.

        2. Quit Any Application

        Command + Q

        You can use this keyboard shortcut to shut down any application immediately. Remember, this Mac shortcut doesn’t just minimize applications – it completely shuts down the apps.

        3. Switch Between Different Windows in an Application

        Command key + ∼

        This Mac shortcut makes doing research a lot easier. For instance, if you have three documents open from the Apple Pages app, one with a research document, another with your draft, and the other with your notes. This shortcut lets you switch easily between the three documents. It is helpful, especially when you’re working on a MacBook with a small screen.

        4. Switch Quickly Between Active Applications

        Command + Tab

        When you press and hold the Command and then tap the Tab button, this opens the App Switcher, letting you switch between all active applications with the Tab button.

        5. Force-Quit an Application

        Command + Option + Q

        If an application is locked up, and the Command + Q shortcut isn’t working, you can use this Mac shortcut to force the application to quit.

        6. Record the Screen or Take Screenshots

        • Command + Shift + 4: This Mac shortcut screenshots a particular area of your screen with the help of the rectangular cropping tool. This shortcut is ideal for sharing snippets of text or images with your target audience on social media.
        • Command + Shift + 5: Starting with macOS Mojave, Apple makes it easy to view all the screenshot tools at once using this keyboard shortcut. When you press this shortcut, you’ll see a toolbar that gives you the options for capturing your entire screen, capturing a particular portion of a window, or capturing a specific window. 

        7. Address or Search Bar (on Safari)

        Command + L

        Reaching for the mouse to activate Safari’s address or search bar wastes a ton of time. But when you use this keyboard shortcut in Safari, your cursor will jump up to your search bar, where you can type a URL or a search term. 

        Safari has some other brilliant keyboard shortcuts, including the Command + T shortcut, which opens a new tab, and the Command + Z keyboard shortcut, which reopens the last tab you accidentally closed. 

        8. Instantly Lock Your Mac Device

        Command + Control + Q

        If you want to step away from your desk at the office or home office and you don’t want anyone snooping around on your Mac device, use this shortcut to immediately lock your screen. This is a lot faster than switching to a lock screen using the menu bar. 

        9. Move Files to a Folder

        Command + Control + N

        If you have a lot of files saved on your desktop and you want to move them to a new folder, this Mac shortcut can help you out. You just need to select all the files you want to move and then press Command + Control + N to move the selected files to a new folder.

        10. Preview Files Using Quick Look

        Click + Space bar

        If you wish to see what a file looks like but don’t want to waste a ton of time opening the associated application, select the file in the Finder folder. Then, press and hold the spacebar. Also, this works with files saved on the desktop. A Full-page preview will appear alongside Markup options. This works perfectly with everything from Microsoft Excel files and images to PDFs.

        11. Display Sleep

        Control + Shift + Power button

        Use this shortcut to turn off your Mac’s display without shutting down the entire system. It’s your best bet when you need to preserve privacy, save energy, or take a short break without disrupting ongoing processes like downloads or active applications. The system will continue to run in the background.

        12. Show/Hide the Dock

        Option + Command + D

        This shortcut allows you to show or hide the Dock, providing more screen real estate when needed. It’s particularly helpful when working in applications that benefit from a larger display area or when aiming to reduce on-screen distractions.

        13. Create Duplicate Files

        Command + D

        Need a backup of that important file? Or maybe you’re experimenting with different versions of a document? This shortcut lets you quickly create a copy to save the hassle of manual copying and pasting.

        14. Get File Information

        Command + I

        Get detailed information about files or folders, like size, type, and modification date, quickly and without the need to open additional windows or applications.

        15. Open Recents Folder

        Shift + Command + R

        Navigating back to your recently accessed files can often be a hassle, especially when working on multiple projects.

        The Shift + Command + R shortcut simplifies this by instantly opening the Recents folder on your Mac. This folder is a dynamic space that automatically updates with the files and documents you’ve worked on recently to save the time and effort of manually searching through your directories.

        16. App Switcher

        Command + Tab

        Do you need to switch between applications quickly? The Command + Tab shortcut activates the App Switcher, which displays all your active applications, allowing you to navigate between them seamlessly. This shortcut is especially useful for multitaskers who frequently alternate between different programs.

        17. Paste Without Formatting

        Command + Shift + V

        This shortcut is for Paste and Match Style (or Paste and Match Formatting).

        It pastes the copied content (text, for example) into a new location while matching the formatting of the destination. For instance, if you copy text from a web page (which may have specific fonts, sizes, and colors) and use this shortcut in a word processor, the pasted text will adopt the formatting of the rest of the document in the word processor, rather than retaining its original web formatting.

        18. Dictionary Lookup

        Control + Command + D

        This shortcut is used for looking up the definition of a word. When you hover your cursor over a word in a text and press these keys, a small popup appears, providing the definition, synonyms, and sometimes even Wikipedia excerpts related to that word.

        It is incredibly useful for quickly accessing dictionary information without interrupting your workflow. The shortcut enhances productivity, especially for writers, researchers, or users who frequently work with text and need to understand or clarify terminology efficiently.

        19. Select All Items

        Command + A

        This Mac shortcut selects all the items or text in the current window or application. It is so handy when you want to quickly select everything in a document, a webpage, or a list of files in a folder.

        For example, if you’re working in a word processor and press Command + A, it will highlight all the text in your document. This makes it easy to apply changes to the entire content or to copy and paste everything into another document.

        20. Find Misspelled Words

        Command + semi-colon (;)

        You can use this shortcut in word processing programs like Microsoft Word and Apple Pages to cycle through misspelled words in a document. When you press this key combination, the cursor jumps to the next word that the program’s spell check function has flagged as potentially incorrect.

        This way, you can quickly review and correct spelling errors in your document and streamline the editing process and ensuring your work is free from common spelling mistakes.

        Got early access Alpha to GPT4

        Chatgpt moving well , search is getting better, Google still being the leader in AI, should be very careful, the new version will hurt them:

        Here is why Google should be careful , 4 reasons

        1- With Alpha mode, Web Browsing with GPT-4 is OpenAI's most advanced model, gives ChatGPT real-time data access to the web.

        2- Provides stock analysis

        3- You can ask it for reviews for products you planned to purchase or you want to buy

        4- Cites sources

        Have a great Sunday

        Will AI replace jobs

        The AI language model, has to be viewed as the internet in the 1990s and the mobile in the 2000s but I can tell you that AI has the potential to automate some of the work that is currently done by people. It's crucial to remember nevertheless that not all jobs are equally vulnerable to automation. Most jobs will have it as an assistant.

        There are some jobs that are less likely to be mechanised in the near future, such as those that demand creativity, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.Yet, positions that require manual work, data processing, and repetitive operations are more likely to be mechanised.

        It's also crucial to remember that while AI can automate some tasks, it cannot take the place of human abilities and traits like empathy, adaptability, and decision-making that are crucial in many professions. Jobs in complex decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills are required for these positions, which are challenging for computers to mimic and wont be able to be automated. For most the answer is NO, AI wont replace your job.

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Pros of implementing SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)

by Alex Antonatos
on 22 November 2019

 

Lets explore the Pros of SAFe as I see them. In a future article would look at the cons 

The biggest benefit of adopting SAFe is the opportunity to tap into a relatively lightweight framework that creates efficiency in software development while maintaining the centralized decision-making necessary at the enterprise level. 

Pros

In large organisations with multiple teams and vendors spread across locations, this is far from reality. SAFe has an excellent way of ensuring the teams recognise the dependencies (during PI Planning), discuss and negotiate them, visualise them and plan for them. 

SAFe is a solid way of engaging Business Stakeholders on a regular basis with the teams. SAFe's PI Planning process (and other mechanisms like PI System Demo, Product Sync etc.) literally force the teams to engage the business stakeholders, customers and even vendors in the Planning process. 

Business to Business, Business to IT Alignment

SAFe events like PI Planning, Product Sync bring together the business stakeholders, the product development teams, shared services teams and enterprise architecture teams into one place. 

Business and IT - Joint Planning 

In SAFe, all the teams within a particular group (called an Agile Release Train) start and end their Sprints on the same day. This brings a degree of synchronicity, efficiency and predictability to the delivery across the group.

Implementation Roadmap

SAFe has a solid, well proven Implementation Roadmap. This is something that SAFe has put together iteratively over many years drawing on experiences, lessons learned from hundreds of implementations.

Structuring the Teams

Many Agile teams do their best to deliver in a consistent, predictable way. But they are hampered because of the way the teams are structured and created. If Agile teams are created incorrectly - e.g. based on technology or component or location - they end up creating a huge number of Dependencies increasing the effort and the time to market.

SAFe has a lot of literature and best practices and strongly emphasises structuring the teams on a feature basis. The framework strongly recommends undertaking a Value Stream Mapping exercise (as part of the Implementation Roadmap) to structure the teams properly and efficiently (with an aim to delivering as independently as possible). 

Architecture and transition Design

Architecture and Architects are sensitive topics within the world of Agility with widely varying opinions in terms of their role in Agile teams.

SAFe tries to strike a sensible balance between completely centralised architecture vs completely de-centralised team based Architecture decisions for various reasons (in large organisations there could be a need to decide on certain tools centrally, purchase licenses on a global basis for certain applications / tools to optimise cost or decide on a central database decision etc.)

SAFe's mantra is - Intentional Architecture and transition Design. SAFe also appears to provide the right amount of balance between letting teams do their own thing but establishes some guard rails. It also encourages teams to think about architecture somewhat ahead of time with a continuous transition architecture.

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