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No Man’s Sky Expands Its Universe: Now Available on Apple Devices

No Man’s Sky opens on Mac after its release date was announced for 2022 and we never heard from this expected port again.

No Man’s Sky is a game that has come a long way to where it is today. After an excessive marketing campaign that led both critics and the public to have their expectations disappointed by what the game offered, No Man’s Sky has provided a prime example of what a redemption story should be. Improving with each patch, offering free content, and growing exponentially over time, it has become even more than what was originally promised. Especially because today it arrives on a new platform. No Man’s Sky arrives on Mac.

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Originally released on August 9, 2016, by Hello Games, No Man’s Sky is an adventure and survival game. In this game, players travel through space, exploring different planets in an almost infinite universe. They gather resources, investigate the ecosystems of each planet, and try to uncover the mysteries behind the enigmatic entity known as The Atlas.

The problem with No Man’s Sky at its launch was that, despite promising a universe of possibilities, it only offered a universe filled with repetitive content. The game could generate nearly nineteen quintillion planets, but they all felt similar, and although the universe was shared with other players and traces of their presence could be found, it was so vast that encountering other players was nearly impossible, even for cooperative play. However, through subsequent updates, the game introduced simple ways to play cooperatively, expanded ways to interact with the worlds, added more content, and overall provided more ways to create a natural progression through which players could explore the universe in search of answers about Atlas and what each planet has to offer.

Now, as it arrives on Mac today, June 1st, we have another opportunity to explore the vast and beautiful universe of No Man’s Sky, inspired by the surreal science fiction of the 60s and 70s. All of this is accompanied by the spectacular soundtrack by 65daysofstatic, reminding us that there is not only life out there but also that it is tremendously fun to go out and discover it.

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Tidy Up Your Dock: How to Show Only Open Apps on Your Mac

We can reduce the space it occupies or the information it shows in the Dock by making it show us only the open apps.

It is from the Dock of our Mac, the bottom bar, from where we access the apps that we use most often and also those that are in use at the moment. This is how the Dock works by default, but if we want to reduce the space it occupies or the information it displays we can make it show only the open apps.

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The minimalism of displaying only apps in use

It is thanks to a Terminal command that we can modify the behavior of the Dock. A behavior that we will configure to show only the open apps, the ones with a dot underneath, something like a Do Not Disturb mode for apps. Here it is a good idea to take a screenshot of the current layout of the Dock to be able to recover it if we want. Then the steps are these:

We open the Terminal app. We can look for it in Spotlight or in the Utilities folder inside Applications.
We copy and paste the following command: defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool true; killall Dock
Press Enter (↵).

That’s all. The Dock will resize instantly and all the apps we have added will disappear except the ones we are running. Accessing the rest of them is as easy as using Launchpad, pinching with four fingers on the trackpad, or thanks to Spotlight.

Restoring the default Dock operation is as simple as repeating the steps we have just seen replacing the command used with this one: defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool false; killall Dock

Just as we can customize the home screen of our iPhone, this simple configuration, as we can see, but really interesting when it comes to managing the information we see in the Dock. A configuration designed to adapt to our habits and needs and that we can modify in a couple of clicks.

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Take a Closer Look at Your Notes: How to Use Gallery View on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

One of those many small details that Apple offers us in operating systems.

With time of use the Notes app ends up storing a lot of information and, when that happens, it can be somewhat complicated to find the particular note we are looking for. We can do some cleaning, of course, and help us with the search or Siri, but there will be situations in which, even so, we will have to visually review our collection of notes to find the one we are interested in. For these cases, the gallery view that the app offers us on our iPhone, iPad or Mac is especially useful.

Keep Track of Your Mac Apps: A Guide to Viewing All Installed Applications

Consulting this list can almost be a curiosity, but it certainly helps us clean up and be aware of what we have installed on our computer.

Yes, the Applications folder in the Finder should show us all the apps on the Mac, right? Well, actually there are some apps that are outside that folder and are still installed on our Mac. Consulting this list can be almost a curiosity, but it certainly helps us to clean up and be aware of what we have installed on our computer.

Four ways to share files conveniently and efficiently between two Macs

The four best options with which to make this process easy and fast.

Years ago we worked with a single computer and stored all documents and files in its memory, but nowadays we work remotely, online, in a cooperative way, etc. All this leads us to need to send and share files, let’s see four of the most convenient and effective ways to do it.

Locked and Secure: A Guide to Understanding and Using Locked Files and Folders on Your Mac

The locked files and folders are those that do not allow changes, not even in the name, but there is much more.

The different files on our Mac have different levels of importance. There are some that, surely, we have backed up in three or even four places to make sure they never disappear, In the same vein there is a most useful resource: lock files or folders. Let’s see how to do it and what we gain from it.

Stay Ahead of the Game: How to Update Your iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac Before Others Do

Interesting, since it allows us to test the latest innovations before the others.

Apple releases software updates for the iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac on a regular basis. These updates usually improve the performance, stability and security of the devices, as well as include new functions and features. System changes require some caution, so before releasing them to the general public Apple rolls them out in the form of beta versions.

This is how we can organize the messages in our Mac Mailboxes by date, attachments, sender, read and more.

Sorting the different mailboxes according to our needs may seem basic, but it is undoubtedly an important step.

The way we organize emails in the Mail app can make the difference between efficiency in managing them and having them pile up in the app. Fortunately, we can organize the emails in all our mailboxes following different guidelines and make it easier for us to read and consult them. Let’s see how to do it.

Exploring the Utilities Folder on Your Mac: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Each App

These are important utilities, we may not need to use them often, but we will appreciate them more than once.

Our new Mac comes with many apps installed. Apps such as Safari, to surf the Internet, Mail, to manage our mail, Contacts, Calendars or Reminders describe their function only with their name, but there are others somewhat less clear. We are talking about the 17 (16 on Macs with M1) applications in the Utilities folder under Applications. Let’s take a look at them and see how they can be useful.

Effortless Photo and Video Transfer: Preserve Quality When Moving from iPhone to Computer

The easiest option is to use iCloud, but there are also other alternatives such as transferring them directly to the Mac or using third-party services. In a few clicks we will have all the content available wherever we need it.

iPhones have become an essential tool for capturing the environment around us through photos and videos. Whether we are talking about the most recent vacations, using them to customize the home screen of our iPhone and make it unique, recording the screen or being able to take a picture of an advertisement or address that we will later want to consult, the ubiquity of the iPhone camera is more than considerable.