Mac OS X

The Launchpad on macOS is strictly for apps. There isn’t much you can do about this. Apple is not known for its flexibility so there’s no trick way to add a file to it. If you want to be able to open a file from Launchpad, you will have to …

Apple integrates is products with all its other products really well. It does still manage to miss a few tricks. Case in point; you can’t view your iPhone’s battery level on your Mac. You can be on the same WiFi network, using the same Apple ID, and you don’t get …

The Launchpad on macOS is strictly for apps. There isn’t much you can do about this. Apple is not known for its flexibility so there’s no trick way to add a file to it. If you want to be able to open an app from Launchpad, you will have to …

macOS has two different types of notifications that it can show you; banners and alerts. Alerts stay on your screen until you dismiss them and banners dismiss themselves after five seconds. This might be too long, or not long enough. It’s something that may differ from one user to another. …

The default configuration of the Touch bar on a MacBook has the ‘Control Strip’. This strip has controls for managing the volume, brightness, and media playback on your Mac. It also has a button for Siri and you may, or may not find it useful. Siri coming to macOS was …

Sidecar is one of the major features that Apple introduced in Catalina. Unfortunately, even if your Mac can run Catalina, it doesn’t necessarily mean you will be able to use Sidecar. The feature itself is limited within the subset of Macs that can run Catalina. So naturally, there’s a hack …

Bluetooth devices have generic names. Generally speaking, the device names will be different from one device manufacturer to another but, Bluetooth devices that are the same make and model will have the exact same name. It’s not practical to give each device its own name. That said, users might need …

It’s common knowledge that iMessages can sync between Apple devices. This feature isn’t just restricted to Apple’s iOS devices. You can get iMessages and even text messages pushed to your desktop. Much like iMessages, you can also get incoming call alerts from iOS on macOS. In fact, you can answer …

Apple appears to have done a Microsoft. The new macOS Catalina is causing problems for a lot of users. Battery drain appears to be at the forefront of these problems but there’s also the fact that Catalina doesn’t support 32-bit apps and there’s still a lot of them out there. …

Catalina has officially been released and that means iTunes is no more. If you own an iPhone, or had one in the past, you know that it’s hard to use it without iTunes. With Catalina, iTunes’ functionality has been broken up and split across different apps. Syncing the iPhone on …