Tag Archives: Mac OS X

A Mac or MacBook both have a built-in webcam. The webcam will work with any app that can use it e.g, Microsoft Teams or Zoom but it is known as the Facetime camera and is meant to work with the app of the same name. Facetime, much like iMessage, works …

Apple’s MacBooks still have the Touch Bar that was added some years ago. To this day, this small hardware strip has found little utility. It’s helpful to have at times and the dynamically changing soft buttons make navigation easier but the hardware is glitchy and users often have trouble with …

Among Us is available on Windows, iOS, and Android. You can play Among Us on Linux with Steam Play which leaves macOS users to figure out how they can play the game on their desktop. Among Us isn’t officially available on macOS which probably comes down to the developers not …

A disk on macOS generally doesn’t have partitions the way a disk does when Windows 10 is installed. You can create volumes from a disk and that is somewhat similar to having a partition. The disk is where the OS is installed to and when you access it in Finder, …

macOS can crash like any other desktop operating system. The disk that macOS is installed on can likewise run into problems or macOS’ own files may be corrupted if you try and modify the system and it doesn’t go as planned. If you’re having trouble accessing a disk on macOS, …

Apple’s products may be expensive, and they may sometimes under-deliver features compared to their competition but there is one thing that still holds true about them; an Apple product rarely bricks beyond recovery. Your iPhone or Mac may end up in a restart loop, but software problems are almost always …

Big Sur has brought a design change to macOS. There are lots of UI changes but you will notice the change in the icons before you notice anything else. They’re rounded and in the eyes of many users, they’re also kind of ugly. With the stock apps, you can’t do …

Finder has a sidebar that is omnipresent and that users can pin frequently accessed folders to. A single click will take users to the folders that are pinned under the Favorites section.  The Favorites section is reserved for folders though so if you want a quick way to access files, …

Virtual Desktops on macOS are excellent for multi-tasking; they’re easy to switch between and they allow you to segregate apps when you have to use one-too-many of them all at once.  Virtual desktops are great for keeping work organized e.g., a different Chrome profile can be kept on different desktops …

macOS has the best stock screenshot utility of any desktop OS in the market today. You can get impressive, third-party, feature-rich screenshot tools for Windows 10 but there is little that can beat having a great tool out-of-the-box on your OS. The macOS screenshot tool can take screenshots, record screencasts, …