macOS Archives - CSS-Tricks

PixelSnap

# February 9, 2018 By Chris Coyier

Forever I've used the macOS Command-Shift-4 screenshot utility to measure things. Pressing it gets you a little crosshairs cursor which you can click-and-drag to take a screenshot but, crucially, has little numbers that tell you the width/height of the selection in pixels. It's crude, but ever so useful.

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Clearing Accidentally “Learned” Words from macOS Dictionary

# January 13, 2017 By Chris Coyier

Does this little moment strike fear into your heart?

Argahghg! Fat fingers! I meant to FIX the spelling, not learn this misspelled word!

Now forevermore, the spell checker won't catch that misspelled word. Fear not, you can fix it.

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Designing for “Show scroll bars”

# December 30, 2016 By Chris Coyier

In macOS, users have the ability to set when they want to see scrollbars in windows. This affects all windows in the operating system, including in web browsers. They have three choices:

Automatically based on mouse or trackpad
When scrolling
Always

Which means you are either in a state where you see them all the time, or a state where you only see them once scrolling has been started through some other means.

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