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12 Beach Hacks That Will Save Your Summer

When we talk about summer, we often think of hot sand, the cold water of the sea, and a good tan. But unpleasant things can occur even on a trip to the beach, and they can really spoil your holiday.

Bright Side has come up with 12 tricks to make your beach vacation pleasant, safe, and fun.

12. How to stop sand sticking to your feet

12 Beach Hacks That Will Save Your Summer

Because of all the sand that gets stuck to your feet, it can be difficult to get your shoes back on after a day at the beach. To avoid this happening, use children’s talcum powder.

What to do: Sprinkle some talcum powder onto a piece of cloth, and wrap it up tightly. When you’re ready to go home, rub the talcum powder onto your feet. The talc will absorb all the moisture, meaning that even the tiniest grains of sand will fall away easily. Your legs and feet will be clean and smooth.

11. How to avoid losing your car keys

To avoid having to take your keys to the beach and running the risk of them disappearing into the sea, hide them behind the wheel of your car.

What to do: Take a twig, blade of grass, or plant stem and tie it to the keyring for your car keys. Fix it to the hubcap, and let it hang down on the inner side.

10. Protecting your valuables

When you’re on the beach, there’s often nowhere to put your valuables, and it’s not a good idea to leave them without anyone to watch over them.

What to do: Simply place your keys, telephone, money, and so on inside a child’s diaper, or wrap them up inside some underwear. Such items are wholly unattractive to thieves. They won’t even touch them, and your stuff will be safe.

9. How to avoid getting a headache

The sharp change in pressure which occurs when you dive underwater can give you a headache. Thankfully, there’s a way to prevent this.

What to do: Before going underwater, pinch your nose, close your mouth, and create some pressure in your head for 5-10 seconds. Then breathe in deeply, and repeat this process 2 more times. Your body will adapt to the new pressure, and you won’t end up with a headache.

8. Keeping your phone dry

What to do: To protect your phone from moisture and sand, place it in a ziplock bag. Then, with the help of a straw, remove all the air from it. You’ll end up with a completely waterproof cover.

7. If your ears become blocked

If you’ve got all the water out of your ears but they’re still blocked after some time at the beach, you need to restore the natural pressure in your inner ear. Doing so is easy.

What to do: Take an ordinary balloon, pinch your nose, and begin to blow it up. At some point during this process, you’ll hear a weak "click" sound, which indicates that the pressure in your ears is back to normal.

6. A quick refreshing drink

What to do: Before going to the beach, fill up a plastic bottle with 1/3 water, and place it in the freezer. When you need a cool drink after a long time spent in the sun, you can pour any drink into the bottle, and it will cool down straightaway.

5. A sand-free sun lounger

What to do: To stop the wind blowing sand into your shoes, clothes, and bags, lay out a mattress cover instead of an ordinary beach chair. You’ll end up with something close to a paddling pool with no water, which you can lie in and keep your things safe.

4. Cool flip-flops

What to do: To stop your sandals from burning your feet after they’ve sat in the sun for hours, just keep them turned over when you’re not wearing them.

3. Stopping sand sticking onto things

What to do: Put bottles inside paper cups to stop the sand getting stuck to them.

2. Protect your phone from water and sand

What to do: This is another great way to protect your phone from water and sand: wrap it up in plastic wrap. This allows you to even take it into the water with you, although the touchpad may not work in lower temperatures.

1. Frozen aloe vera juice helps with burns

Aloe vera juice contains chemicals that can heal wounds, reduce swelling, and retain moisture. It’s a great way to cope with sunburn as well.

What to do: Buy some aloe vera gel, and freeze it in an ice cube tray. You can then wipe your face, arms, or back with it or wherever else you’ve received burns. It will help to both restore the health of your skin and reduce the pain.

15 Tricks That Can Beat Your Everyday Troubles Better Than a Magic Wand

Life is a complicated yet really interesting thing. Sometimes we think that if we could just eliminate some difficult situations, it would be perfect. For example, a sudden headache, an urge to eat a lot of ice cream, or that sleepiness that comes at the end of a work day.

Bright Side was elated to find these tricks that can help us avoid at least 80% of these unsavory problems and forget about them forever.

To put a bracelet on by yourself, you just need an ordinary paper clip. Unfold the clip into an S-shape and hook one end through the clasp. Then hold the other end of the paper clip in your bracelet hand and fasten the clasp with your free hand.

22 Tricks That Can Beat Your Everyday Troubles Better Than a Magic Wand

To avoid sweat stains, put 2 pantyliners into the shirt prior to putting it on, and press each one onto the fabric for about 15 seconds.

Put a carrot on top of something unhealthy in your fridge (ice cream, hamburger, etc.). This trick will make you think twice before you binge on junk food.

Suffering from a bad headache? Put your feet and hands in warm water and place something cold at the base of your skull. Your headache will disappear in a few minutes. You can also eat 10-12 almonds: they work as good as 2 aspirin pills.

A headache in different areas tells us a lot about the brain’s needs. Pain in the crown of the head indicates that you have to eat or drink, if the forehead hurts, you need to sleep more, and you’re probably suffering from stress, if the nape of your neck hurts.

Sleeping naked can help to reduce acne and slow down the process of aging: your blood circulation will improve and your skin will get more air.

Lemons, oranges, and limes frighten off spiders. Just mix their juice with water and spray in doorways, on windowsills, and anywhere else you’ve seen these nasty creatures.

Put a brick in the toilet tank. This will help you use less water and save money.

If your camera has been stolen, go to StolenCameraFinder.com. This site lets people upload the photos they have from stolen cameras.

You can “teach” your brain to be happy. You just need to think about 3 things that make you feel thankful every day for 3 weeks in a row.

To remove a splinter, fill a wide-neck bottle 80% full with hot water. Press the bottle to the area with the splinter and hold it for a few minutes. This method will pull the splinter out and help you avoid an infection.

To protect your car from bird droppings, just leave a toy snake on your car’s roof. Birds are afraidof snakes, so they’ll stay away.

To protect yourself from insect bites, take vitamin B. This vitamin changes your blood’s odor, which frightens off mosquitoes, fleas, and other bugs.

You can heat a whole room using a handmade heater. Turn a terracotta pot upside down, set it above some candles, and put some bricks around it.

An ordinary air freshener will help you get rid of ants. For them, it smells like poison.

If you want your children to eat more healthy food, give the foods unusual names. For example, if your kid doesn’t like broccoli or carrots, they’ll probably like “broccolinator” and “carrotinja.”

Every anniversary, try to take a picture with the last year’s photo. This method will help you strengthen your family relationship. Just imagine what this picture will look like many years later.

While looking for flights, clear your browser’s history. It’ll help you save up to $50. Companies increase their prices by tracking what you’re looking for.

Being sarcastic can add up to 3 years to your life. Psychologists say it’s extremely useful for our brain and our mental health.

Some Japanese and Scottish cities use street lamps with blue light. This has been shown to help reduce the crime and suicide rate. Blue light makes the body produce soothing chemical substances. Place a lamp with blue light in your room to reduce stress.

While learning something by heart, chew gum. Then, before a test or exam, chew gum with the same flavor you chewed while you were studying. This will help your brain remember the information faster.

Do some stretching exercises for 5 minutes before going to bed. This will help to relax your muscles, and it’ll be easier to fall asleep since you’ll find a comfy position faster.

Which life hack do you think is the most useful?

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86 Amazing Mac OS X Tips And Tricks

After our post regarding Amazing PC / Internet Tricks, we thought of having a similar post for our Mac users. We posted a blog regarding cool iPhone tricks, that was followed by the post onmust have apps for iPhone. Finally here are some cool tricks for Macintosh. Before moving to the tricks here is a list of some of the keys that we will be using for some of our tricks.

Command ⌘ Shift ⇧ Option ⌥ Control ⌃ Caps Lock ⇪ Fn

I. Unit Conversion Through Spotlight

Simply type INR 66.76 in spotlight and it will suggest the conversion factor for some of the common currencies. Same is the case with other unit of measurement. Try for 1 meter, 1 kilogram, etc.

2. Spotlight As Calculator

Do I need to explain it.

3. No Need To Remember The Address Of Every Program And App

Simply use Spotlight for opening anything and everything. So in this tutorial when we ask you to open any program or app simply open Spotlight, type the name of that program and open it. You don’t need to remember the exact place where that app or settings is located. MacBook OS X Tips

4. Listen To Your Text

Select the text> ‘Edit’ Tab > Speech > Start Speaking

5. Renaming A Group Of Files At Once

Select the group of files > Right click > Rename

6. Use Emoji Keyboard

While typing if you wish to use Emoji Keyboard, then press ‘command + control + space’ to activate emoji keyboard

7. Invert Screen Color For Night Usage

During night time to reduce the glare and still use your MacBook press ‘control + option + command + 8’

8. To Delete The Files

Press ‘command + delete’

9. To Type A Special Character

Press ‘option + E’ and then press whatever key has a special character attached to it.

10. Record Your Screen

Open Quicktime > ‘File’ Tab > New Screen Recording > Select ‘Record’ > Select an area of your screen or the entire screen > When you are done then click the stop icon

11. Share Specific Text

Select the text > right click and click share

12. Use The Dictionary For Definition Of Any Word

Method 1: Hover the mouse over any word. Press ‘command + control + D’ for the pop up dictionary.

Method 2: Hover over the word and press ‘control’ > Click ‘Look up’

Method 3: Hover over the word and tap the keypad with three fingers at once

13. Use ‘Delete’ Button The Windows Way

The ‘Delete’ button works like the ‘Backspace’ key of the windows keyboard. To delete the text from left to right press ‘fn + delete’.

14. Start The Mac Silently

Press the Power button + F10 + HOLD

15. Add Signatures To Forms

Sign on a piece of paper. Open Preview > ‘Help’ tab > Type ‘Signature’ > ‘Manage Signature’. The camera will start. Keep the piece of paper in front of your camera. Preview will detect your signature. Select ‘Accept’ or ‘Done’.

16. Merge Various Finder Windows

Select any Finder windows > ‘Window’ tab> Merge All Windows >Enjoy the tabbed experience

17. Change Volume Silently

Use Shift + F12. In the later versions of OS X, use this option to hear the sound going up and down as in the later OS X versions the silent option is the default option.

18. Stop The Notifications

System Preferences > Notifications > Specify your option in the ‘Do Not Disturb’ section. You can even exclude certain apps from the notification.

19. Quickly See The Desktop

Place your thumb and three fingers on the trackpad. Now move your three fingers away from the thumb. If it does not work then maybe you need to enable three finger track pad.

20. Enable Three Finger Trackpad

System Preference > Trackpad > Mark Check on check-box for ‘Three Finger drag’

21. Change The Screen Light By 1/4th Unit

Simply pressing the screen light button will change the screen light by one unit at a time. Press ‘option + shfit + Screen light button’ to change it by 1/4th unit at a time.

22. Multiple Desktop

Open Mission Control. Hover your mouse to the top right corner. Click on the plus sign and create another desktop. Use different desktops for different jobs. One for games, one for office work, one for social networking.

23. Setup Hot Corners

System Preferences > Mission Control > Click on the Hot Corners… > Set up different options for different corners. I have set up mission control in the right hand bottom corner. So for tip number 22, I just hover my mouse to the bottom right corner and take it to top right corner and Voila!

24. Change Pattern In ITunes

While listening to a song in iTunes press ‘command + T’ to change the pattern according to the beats of your song

25. Browse Between Open Windows

Use ‘Command + Tab’

26. Capture A Part Of The Screen

Use ‘command + shift + 4’ > Drag to take screenshot for a part of the screen. The image file will be saved on desktop by default.

27. Take Printscreen For The Whole Window

Use ‘command + shift + 3’. The image file will be saved on desktop by default.

28. Incremental Volume Change

Similar to the tip number 21 above, there is an option for incremental change in volume as well. Use ‘shift + option + Volume up or down’.

29. Quit An App

Use ‘command + Q’

30. Switch Between Various View Option In Finder

In Finder window use ‘command + 1’, ‘command + 2’, ‘command + 3’ and ‘command + 4’ for Icon, List, Column and Cover Flow view respectively.

Expand And Collapse A Folder Using Arrow Keys

31. Expand a folder in Finder in List View using right arrow

32. Collapse a folder in Finder in List View using Left arrow

33. To rename a folder of file hit Enter

34. To Open The Selected Folder

Double click or press ‘command + Down Arrow’. Similarly pressing ‘command + Up Arrow’ will take you to the parent folder.

35. Crop Image In Preview

Draw a selection with the regular Rectangular selection > Press ‘command + K’.

36. Save Password In ICloud Keychain To Access It Across Devices

iCloud keychain will help you in accessing your sites from your Mac, iPhone, iPad. Just follow the steps mentioned for keychain on Apple official page.

37. Automator

Use Automator for building your own workflows of commands

38. Know Your Apple ID

Many a times, while in tech support or filling out a form in Apple official website, or for sharing your screen with someone else you will need to know your Apple Id. To know your Apple Id follow: System Preference > iCloud

39. Screen Sharing In Mac

Spotlight > Search for Screen Sharing > Enter the Apple ID of the person you are trying to contact

40. Family Sharing Of Purchases

System Preference > iCloud > Family Sharing. For more details you can visit this link

42. Revert To Previous Version Of A Document

Open any document and hover your mouse over the name of the document. A black arrow sign will appear, once you click it, you will get a number of options including browsing the previous versions of the document.

43. Lock The File For Editing

Open any document and hover your mouse over the name of the document. A black arrow sign will appear, once you click it, you will get a number of options including to lock the document.

44. Switch Between Headphones And Speakers

If you have both headphones and speakers connected to your Mac, press option + volume up/down. A ‘System Preference’ window will open. In ‘Play sound effects through:’ select the output device that you wish as per your preference.

45. Stop Applications That Are Preventing Sleep Of Your Mac

Open Activity Monitor > View in Column Mode. You can find which apps are preventing the sleep mode.

46. Resize Column In Column View

Press option + Double click the column divider to resize all columns to fit the longest file name

47. Search For A Text On A Page In Safari

If you have a webpage opened in Safari and you want to search for a specific text on that page. Simple go to the address and type that text. Now select the option for finding that text in that particular page.

48. Empty The Trash With Warning

Use command + shift + delete

49. Empty The Trash With No Warning

Use command + option + shift + delete

50. To cancel a drag and drop option while in the midst of a drag you can press ‘Esc’ key

51. Hide / Show The Sidebar On The Left

Press command + option + S

52. Hide/ Show The Toolbar On The Top

you can press command + option + T

53. Close Tab In Safari Opened In Other Devices

Choose ‘Show All Tabs’ from the View menu and you will see all your open tabs on all your devices. The condition is that they should be using the same Apple ID.

54. Open Quick Look To Preview Most Types Of Files Without Actually Opening It

Press the Spacebar, alternatively you can use Command + Y

55. Press with three fingers on trackpad to open Quick look to preview most types of files

56. Hold Option while scrolling to zoom in or out in Quick Look for images and PDFs.

57. To undo renaming the last file you can press Command + Z. Pressing Command + Z undo most of the last actions like copy etc.

58. Create Printer Pool To Minimize Waiting Time

System Preferences > Print & Fax, select the printers and create a Printer Pool. So, if one printer is busy, the Mac will send the document to the next printer for printing

59. Restrict The Usage Of Mac

Open Spotlight by pressing command + Spacebar. Type ‘Parental Control’. Press ‘enter’. Select options for the time of day when it can be used.

60. Quickly Scan Through The Menu Of Any App

Click Help menu and type the option you are looking for. It will quickly show you the related list. Hover your mouse over the one you want and it will show the main menu item under which it is listed.

61. Play Around With Resizing And Open Window

Try these out.

A. Hold Option while resizing a window.

B. Hold Shift while resizing a window.

C. Hold both Option and Shift while resizing a window.

D. Now thank me here for the cool trick.

62. Drag Windows Without Disturbing The Front Window

You have two windows open, one at the foreground and other at the background. To move the background without bringing it to the front, press command and then move it.

63. Change The Default App Associated With A File Type

Press Command + I > Open with > Choose new App > Click ‘Change All…’ to apply to all the files

64. Stop Background Applications To Load Automatically During Boot Up

Press Shift while the OS X is loading to stop background applications from opening up automatically. This process speeds up the logging process.

65. Automatically Open Certain Items On Startup

System Preferences > Users > Login items > Click the ‘+’ to add an application

66. Find The Culprit For Slow Mac

Go to Activity Monitor and check out CPU usage, memory usage and other such statistics

67. Move The Files

Press command + C to cut and then command + option + V to paste, simply pressing Command + V will copy paste the file

68. You can press Command + H to hide the front window, to hide all other windows except for the front window, press Command + Option + H

69. To close the front window of an app you can press Command + W, to press all the windows of an app you can press Command + Option + W

70. Define Frequency Of Removal Of Downloaded Items

Open Safari > Preferences > General Tab > ‘Remove download list items:’ Here you can select the frequency with which the downloaded item list is removed from Safari browser.

71. Split View In Photos App For Mac OS X

Open Photos > Open any image in Photos app > Click on the Split view in the Photos App Toolbar > Enjoy viewing photos in a better way

72. Change Default Search Engine In Safari

Open Safari > Preferences > Search Tab > Select the search engine you wish to use from the ‘Search engine’ drop down menu

73. Hide/ Show Your Dock

Press command + option +D to hide your Dock. Repeat this step to show the hidden dock. Go one step ahead and use this command to hide the Dock on your friend’s Mac. Watch his expression!

74. Press Command key. Hold it and press Tab key one by one to go through your open apps. If you need to close some app, just press Q. Press H to minimize or hide the app window.

75. Group Files Into A Folder Like A Boss

Select the files you wish to group, right click on any one of the files and select ‘New Folder With Selection’.

76. Insert Apple Symbol In Names Of Files/ Folders Or In Your Document

Press Option + Shift +K in your MacBook while renaming a file or while editing a text in any document. Later thank me here.

77. Stop Magnification In Dock

System Preferences > Dock > Magnification > Uncheck the box

78. Stationery Pad Options For Any File

For any document press ‘command + I’ to Open the in for that particular file. Click on the checkbox against ‘Stationery pad’. While saving a file choose the option of ‘Stationery pad’. Now anytime you open the file a duplicate file will be opened. This is very useful for documents that are used as templates and prevents you from accidently replacing the original file.

79. Change The Cursor Size To Grandma’s Preferred Size

System Preferences > Accessibility > Display pane > ‘Cursor size:’ > Change the cursor size using the scroll to a size your prefer.

80. Find Various Options In System Preferences In Different Versions Of OS X

Apple release updates to the OS X. With these various options move from one section to other in the System Preferences. There might be a case where in this tutorial we have told you to go to a particular section in System Preferences and you can’t find it there. For example, in tip number 79, in previous versions of OS X, the option to change cursor size was System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad. In the later versions of OS X, it has changed to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display pane > ‘Cursor size:’.

In such a case don’t worry. Simple open System Preferences using Spotlight. On the top right corner in the search box, type what you are looking for and you will be directed to the relevant section. Additionally the operation system will suggest some other similar related text.

81. Force Quit Troubling Application

Press command + option + Q to force quit the troubling app.

82. Open A Number Of Folders At Once

Suppose you have a number of folders inside one particular folder and you want to go through their content one by one. In List view, select all the folders by pressing ‘command + A’ and then press the right arrow key. A real time saver if you wish to scan through content of a number of folders.

83. To close all of the folders in this List View just do the procedure again repeatedly, only this time use the left arrow key to close the folders.

84. Select What Apps Appear In Your Spotlight Search

System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results > Include or exclude apps that you wish Spotlight to access.

85. Exclude Certain Folders From Spotlight Search Results

If for some particular reasons, you wish to exclude certain folders from Spotlight search then, System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy > Click on the ‘+’ sign at the bottom to add folders that you wish to exclude from your searvh in spotlight.

86. Change Alert Sound

System Preferences > Sound > ‘Sound Effects’ tab > ‘Select an alert sound:’

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