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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to quickly launch any app on your Mac
• 5 tips for protecting your devices from the summer heat
• How to recover a deleted contact in Gmail
• Video: The brave men who built the Empire State Building
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Today’s Quick Tip….
How to quickly launch any app on your Mac
Windows users can quickly launch any app on their PC by clicking the Start button and then searching for the app’s name.
And truth be told, that’s often faster than navigating to the app via the menus, especially if you prefer using the keyboard instead of the mouse.
Well, Mac users can do the same thing, although the procedure is slightly different.
Here’s how to use your Mac’s “Spotlight Search” tool to quickly launch any app:
1 – Click the magnifying glass icon at the far-right end of your Mac’s top menu bar to display the Spotlight Search box.
Note: If you prefer using the keyboard, you can also launch the Spotlight Search box by pressing the Command+Space key combination.
2 – Type the name of the app you want to launch into the search box.
3 – Select the app you want to launch from the list of search results (in most cases the app you searched for will be at or near the top of the list).
That’s all there is to it. The app you selected from the list should now be open on your screen.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• 5 tips for protecting your devices from the summer heat
If you aren’t careful, the intense heat of summer can damage, or even destroy your tech devices. This post offers several tips for protecting them.
• How to recover a deleted contact in Gmail
It’s easy to accidentally delete one or more of your Gmail contacts. This post explains how to restore any contact that was deleted within the past 30 days.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Video: The brave men who built the Empire State Building
Back in the early 1900s the work involved in building a skyscraper wasn’t for the faint of heart.
The short video featured in this post shows some incredibly brave iron workers building the steel “skeleton” of New York’s iconic Empire State Building.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Stanford has developed solar panels that work at night
• The writing may be on the wall for sharing Netflix accounts
• New camera battery has a built-in USB-C charger
• The lickable-TV guy created electric chopsticks to make food taste saltier
• Logitech thinks it may finally have cracked the vertical mouse
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