Life Hacks

A few days back, I showed a few tricks to a friend which I use to speed up things. Excited by his enthusiasm I am writing them down.

Follow this guide to become a superhuman. I am no expert so please take this guide with a bag of salt.

The goal of this guide is simple. Har Har Mahadev (Everyman Superman)!

How to work faster on your Mac

While this guide applies to Macs, I am sure Windows has similar controls.

This trick involves speeding up the tracking speed of your cursor.

  1. Open System Preferences
  2. Select Trackpad
  3. Change “Tracking Speed” to Fast. Full Power! You might be out of place for 2 minutes at most but after that you’ll notice things moving faster.

Tweet to me @troysk704 if you want to know how this works! :)

How to read faster

This guide applies to Macs and iOS devices. I will show it on Mac you may Google to find how to enable it on iOS.

  1. Open System Preferences
  2. Select Accessibility -> Speech
  3. Change Speaking Rate to somewhere between Normal and Fast. The goal is to get to fast after few days of use.
  4. Open the book/page you want to read. Lets use Safari.
  5. Enter Reader View.
  6. Select Edit -> Speech -> Start Speaking
  7. Follow the words while Samantha reads it to you. Note: iOS has a nifty “Highlight word” feature which makes the process better.