Mac OS X

Macbooks have some of the best batteries in the market. You can easily get ten hours of usage if you’re not watching movies. That said, sometimes tame apps tend to drain your battery quite a bit. Browsers are one example. If you have apps that you know take a toll …

macOS is still miles behind Windows 10 when it comes to snapping windows. Snapping is a concept that Windows made popular but Apple is rarely shy about taking features from other operating systems or even apps. It still doesn’t do window management like Windows does and that’s why there are …

Most monitors are landscape oriented i.e., they’re wider than they are tall. That’s how in-built displays are oriented on laptops. If you have a Macbook. or you’re using an external display, or you’ve splurged on the new Apple display that can support both orientations, you may be interested to know …

If you’ve newly transitioned from a Windows system to a Mac, you might be somewhat confused as to how you create an app shortcut on macOS. There is no reference to shortcuts anywhere and if you search for them in Spotlight or System Preferences, the Keyboard is mostly what comes …

macOS has a pretty good full screen mode for apps. If you’re trying to work without any distractions, you should switch over to full screen mode and you’re bound to get more done. What many users may not know is that on macOS, the full screen mode can be split …

The trackpad on Macbooks is really great. You’d be hard put to find a trackpad as good on PC models but Apple also has a great mouse that a lot of people love to use even if they have a Macbook. Macbooks aren’t restricted to working with just Apple’s own …

Files in the Downloads folder tend to build up over time. The same can be said for various other locations e.g., where you save screenshots to. If you can’t be bothered manually cleaning old files, you can use Automator to find and delete files older than X days on macOS. …

Spotlight search is possibly one of the best features on macOS. Operating systems all have a search feature but Spotlight is system search done perfectly. That said, it can break. It doesn’t happen often but sometimes, indexing problems may cause Spotlight search to stop working. This isn’t something a simple …

Apps for macOS come in different forms. What that means is they’re not all distributed via the Mac App Store. Installing apps from the Mac App store is easy because the app handles download, installation, and updates without users having to intervene. Apps that are distributed as DMG files are …

You can connect additional, external displays with an iMac or a Macbook. The only thing you need is the right adapter, depending on whether you have a USB C or Thunderbolt port, and an external monitor. macOS has reasonably good multi-monitor support though you still cannot get the Dock to …