The Contacts app on your Mac is a really nice app to save your important contacts in. It offers various ways for you to manage your contacts and keep them in an organized way. If you have some contacts in the app that you no longer need, you can just delete them, and they will be removed from the app. If there are multiple contacts […]
Mac OS X
Mac OS X (or macOS as it is known these days after the name update) is Apple’s computer operating system for its Macintosh line of desktop and laptop computers. If you buy a computer that is made by Apple, it runs Mac OS X or macOS by default. Apple does not distribute this operating system outside of its own devices, so there is nothing else out there available from other companies that can run Mac OS X or macOS.
Launched in 2001, OS X was the successor to the older Mac OS classic. Mac OS X is based on UNIX and used a Mach kernel. OS X gives better memory management and has better multithreading capabilities over the older Mac OS classic.
The Mac OS X category is filled with helpful how-to, tips, and tricks to do with the Mac OS X operating system and all of its versions. In addition to the how-to’s based on its existing operating system, you’ll find helpful hints on how to use Mac applications also.
Show Mac Information on Login Screen of Mac
We recently posted about how you can show a custom message on the login screen of your Mac. That allowed you to show whatever text you wanted on the login screen on your Mac. Here comes a new trick for the login screen of your Mac that allows you to show information about your Mac on your Mac’s login screen. The information that will be […]
Change Default Search Location on Finder Search
Many of you are likely using the Finder’s search feature to search for files on your Mac. Although Spotlight brings up usually anything you want with its quick search features, Finder is also a great way to search for files on a Mac. One of the things that Finder does when you search using it is it searches your entire Mac for the files you […]
Enable Night Mode in macOS Sierra
One of the common mods we have been seeing in almost all the operating systems is night mode. The mode allows users to set different colors for their screens at night time to ensure the screen is easy on the eyes. The night mode exists on Android and iOS, and now it has made its way to the macOS Sierra. With the feature on your […]
How to Password Protect a PDF File on Mac
Protecting your confidential PDF documents is a must in today’s world as you may not know who is spying on you and reading your documents. One of the ways you can do that is to add password protection to your documents. That way, each time the document is opened, the document will ask for the password, and it will only open if a correct password […]
How to Show Custom Text on Login Screen of Mac
There aren’t many things that you can customize on the login screen of your Mac. By default, the screen shows a background and a list of users on the machine. You can click on a user and log-in to open your Mac. However, there is one thing that can be added to your login screen – and it is a custom text. You can now […]
How to Print Documents in Black and White on Mac
Even when you print a black and white document on your Mac, your Mac sends signals to the printer that the document to be printed is a color one. The reason it does so is that you have not specifically asked your Mac to print the document in black and white. It is just doing its job, and it is not wrong at all. In […]
How to Include System Files in Search Results on Mac
When you search your Mac using the Find feature in the Finder app on your Mac, you are presented with all of the files you can usually get access to on your Mac. What these search results don’t include, though, is system files. If you are looking for some specific system files and they are not showing up in the Finder search, then you will […]
How to Enable Debug Menu in Apple Apps on Mac
Most Apple apps come with a hidden menu called debug menu that has options to let you perform some extra actions on your Mac. For example, the debug menu in Calendar app allows you to clear the cache which is not possible with any other methods. The debug menu in these Apple apps comes disabled by default. However, there is a way to enable this […]
How to Add a Charging Chime to Mac
Apple pays attention to every little detail, and that is the reason we see a lot of small yet cool things in its devices. From the Apple Maps icon showing a particular location to the Pages app having the full speech of Jobs, there are many things Apple has added to its devices that make it a distinct company in the world. One of the […]
How to Delete Files on Mac Quickly
When there are files on your Mac that you do not use, what you do is delete them from your Mac. By deleting such files, you are reclaiming the memory space that can now be used for other files that you actually use on your machine. The deletion process is quite simple: either you right-click on a file and select Move to Trash, or you […]
How to Automatically Backup Contacts on Mac
One of the worst things that can happen to us is losing import contacts on our machines. If you have saved someone’s phone number and that is crucial to you, losing it is a problem. To ensure your contacts are safe on your Mac, you should regularly take their backups. Doing something regularly is where we humans make mistakes at. We often forget to do […]
Format and Clean Install macOS on Mac
As you use your Mac for a long time, it eventually gets filled with a lot of files and that slows down the performance of the machine. If that has happened to you, you will want to get rid of such files from your Mac and begin with a fresh one. One of the ways you can do that is by formatting your drive and […]
Completely Delete an App on Mac
If you have recently switched to Mac from Windows, you will find that the process of uninstalling an app on the Mac is not as straightforward as Windows. Windows PCs have the uninstall section from where a user can uninstall an app, but Macs don’t have that. Instead, Mac lets you delete an app by just dragging and dropping it onto the Trash. However, what’s […]
How to Use WhatsApp on Mac
Until and unless WhatsApp releases an official client for the desktops, you will have to rely on other techniques to get WhatsApp to work on your desktop machines. There have been many ways to make WhatsApp work on desktops, and some of those ways also cover the Mac. So, if you have got a Mac and you want to run WhatsApp on it, you do […]
Set Blank as Default Template in Pages for Mac
If you are a Mac user and you do not wish to work with Microsoft Word, then you have a really great alternative to that pre-installed on your machine, and it is called Pages. The Pages app for Mac is a word processor for Mac computers that allows you to create dozens of types documents on your Mac. It is similar to the Word in […]
See When OS was Last Installed and Battery Cycle on Mac
Your Mac stores a lot of information about itself than what you imagine. From when it had its OS installed to how many cycles your battery has gone through, it has all that information stored in it and it even lets you view that should you want. There are many times when you need to see such information about your Mac to make decisions. Your […]
Set Expanded Save Dialog Box as Default in Mac
Every time you save something in an app on your Mac, you see the standard Mac save dialog box wherein you can enter the details for the item you are saving. The dialog box that you see is actually the minimized version of the actual bigger save dialog box that ships with the OS of your machine. The smaller dialog box that you see in […]
Clear DNS Cache in macOS Sierra
If you have trouble viewing web pages in your browser, then the first thing you need to look into is your DNS servers. If you have recently changed them, you will need to flush your DNS cache so that new cache can be created and so that the old cache does not interfere with the new servers. Every time you see an issue with resolving […]
Reopen Recently Closed Tabs in Safari for Mac
Often while browsing in browsers, we accidentally close a tab. If you knew the site, you could easily go back to it using the full URL or a Google search. However, if it was something you do not remember, you will have difficulties getting back to it. In such a case, you can just view your browsing history and click on the link you accidentally […]
How to Find Photos Files on Mac
The Photos app that comes preloaded on most modern Macs is one of the great photo management apps I have ever come across. The app lets you manage your photos using various ways, and it does the job perfectly. Whenever you want to see photos, you can just launch the Photos app, and it will show all of your photos stored in there, and you […]
How to Disable Camera of Mac Completely
While most people don’t have to disable the camera on their Mac, some people will want to do it as they find that it is something people can use to spy on them. If you are one of those users and you would not like covering the camera using a tape or using any other methods to detect camera activities, then you have a way […]
How to Take a Selfie on Mac
One of the things that many people have lately become addicted to is selfies. Whether you are about to give a speech at a college or you are spending your holidays in Australia, a selfie is something that everyone takes no matter what they are doing or where they are. Mostly, people use their smartphones to take selfies, but you should know that even your […]
Get All Photos Uploaded to Google Photos
Google Photos is no longer a part of Google+, and it is now a separate entity that helps you with managing your photos. One of the great things Google Photos lets you do now is you can upload an unlimited number of photos to your Google Photos account without consuming the data storage provided to you by Google. What that means is that as long […]
See if Mac Supports Auto Unlock Feature
Auto Unlock is a feature by Apple that lets you automatically unlock and log-in to your Mac using an Apple Watch. The entire thing is that you ought to have an Apple Watch and a Mac and when you come closer to your Mac your watch automatically unlocks the Mac and logs you into your account on the Mac. The feature is really great as […]
Enable/Disable Inertial Scroll on Mac
Whether you have noticed it or not, but you have been using inertial scrolling on your Mac. What that thing is your screen keeps on scrolling even when you have to take your fingers off the trackpad. The scroll then slowly comes to a stop. It is called inertial scrolling, and it is embedded in most Apple Macs. The feature was also available on the […]
Automatically Shutdown, Sleep, or Restart Mac
There are times when you want for your Mac to automatically shutdown, sleep, or restart at a particular time. You usually want that when a task is running on your Mac, say a download, for example, and you want your Mac to shut down when the download has finished. If you already know the time when you think your download would be finished, then you […]
Enlarge Mac’s Mouse Pointer
The pointer on Macs usually come with a good size so that you can easily find it on your screen. However, if you happen to have eye problems, it would be difficult for you to find it. Also, the pointer would look tiny if you happen to use a really high-resolution monitor. In the case of a high-resolution monitor, what you can do is you […]
Export Playlists from iTunes for Mac
iTunes is one of the best music organizers out there that helps you organize your music tracks in a really nice way. It helps you create playlists so you can play them when you want and it also creates automatic playlists it thinks you would like using its artificial intelligence. If you ever plan to switch to a new music player as your default one, […]
Find WiFi Password on Mac
If you do not manually connect to your WiFi network for a long time, you may forget the password of your network as you do not use it regularly. It all happens to us. If that has happened to you and you have forgotten the password of your WiFi network, and you are not able to add a new device to the network, then you […]