macOS Articles

Many times when you download files off the Internet or you copy files from a USB drive, the naming formats aren’t always what you expected. This is especially true for […]

A symbolic link, often shortened to symlink, is a type of link that is stored at one location on your machine and points to another location on the same machine. […]

Mac has a wonderful file explorer called Finder that provides you with a lot of options to manage and organize your files. Most of the features in the app are […]

Automation tools like IFTTT and Siri Shortcuts are popular options to streamline day-to-day tasks, but MacOS has long had a tool for this. Automator is not well known to anyone […]

Taking screenshots on a Mac is extremely easy thanks to the amazing screen capture utility it comes preloaded with. The utility comes with even more features than what you find […]

I am a big fan of some of Mac OS’ default apps but like everything else online, there are tools and software apps that can do MacOS tasks better, faster, […]

macOS has an efficient system to help you search for files and folders in your storage. You can run searches that contain specific words or other criteria to find the […]

When you create or copy a file to your Mac, it is assigned a path which is the actual location of the file on your Mac. Paths let you easily […]

Much of the preinstalled default apps on a macOS computer is actually really good. But like any new computer, there is always new stuff you can add to make your […]

Up until now, your Mac supported all the versions of any apps on your machine. You could run an app whether it was 32-bit or 64-bit without any issues on […]

“Picture in picture” mode has long been available for many devices except for the Apple Mac. If you don’t already know what it is, it is a mode that allows […]

I write a lot. It is my occupation, my hobby, and pretty much the one thing I am good at. If I am not writing articles, I am writing books, […]

If you have had a macOS computer for a while, you will know what dynamic wallpapers are. These are the ones that change depending on what time of day it […]

On Windows, you have Bitlocker. Cross-platform, you also have VeraCrypt (successor to TrueCrypt). But if you want to encrypt a folder on the fly in MacOS, then the quickest and […]

It’s a fact of life that computers slow down. Sometimes it’s due to wear and tear but it can also be something as simple as your hard-drive filling up with […]

Did you know that every time you download something on your Mac, it records it in a handy log file? Yeah….thanks for that Apple. I can hear the illegal downloading […]

Despite my MacBook Air having a 120GB hard drive, I am always struggling to keep enough storage space free. Every time I look at my available space, I am always […]