The command is “purge” and it does one very simple thing-it frees up RAM on your machine.
Okay, fair enough, but here’s a simple command that will…well it’s pretty cool. All the horror stories of people typing rm * in the wrong place and wiping out their Mac will have that effect on people. A lot of people are a wee skittish about using Terminal. Oh Terminal, such power you hold over the entire system. One of the essential tools in a Mac Jedi’s toolkit is Terminal. Next time you want the current window to fill the entire screen, just hold down the shift key when you click the button. Sure that’s fine most of the time, but sometimes you actually want the window to fill the screen. You know the red button on a window is close and the yellow one is minimize and the green one is maximize, right? Okay, so you also know that some apps (like Chrome and Word) don’t fill the entire screen when you click the maximize button. Shift-Click Maximize Button to Fill Screen And since we know that you are just like us and want to get as much done as possible, we decided to share this list of 10 tips for Mac OS X operations. However, when we stumbled across this awesome Lifehack article, we thought that we would work smarter, not harder, and see how much we could get done. As usual we are not getting as much done in the office today as we would like.
