Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Apps can keep a Mac from going to sleep if their functionality calls for it. A browser may prevent an app from going to sleep if it’s downloading a file. Similarly, an app that is playing media may also prevent macOS from entering the sleep state since users will not …

macOS has some of the best apps for everyday tasks but that doesn’t mean everyone loves or uses them. Lots of people still prefer to use Chrome instead of Safari on macOS. Likewise, not everyone uses the default Mail app either. Here’s how you can change default apps on macOS. …

Removing EXIF data from a photo, en-masse, on Windows 10 is fairly easy and you’d expect something similar on macOS. You’d be wrong. The best, most frequently recommended tool for removing EXIF data from a photo on a Mac leaves you with an ‘optimized’ image. If you need to remove …

The Dock is one of the most essential UI elements on macOS. It serves as a quick-launch location for apps that you use often, and for accessing apps and folders that are currently open. The Dock is fully customizable; you can add/remove items from it, change its size, its position …

Plist files are an essential file that all macOS apps have. The contents of each file are different of course but you’d be hard-pressed to find an app that doesn’t come with one. A Plist file used to be really easy to edit on macOS and the stock TextEdit app …

If you own an iPhone and a Mac, you will be able to manage and interact with your phone far more easily than if you had a Windows PC. This holds true in almost all cases except when you need to access photos from your iPhone. The default method for …

A Mac may cost more than the average PC or laptop with similar or comparable specs but out-of-the-box, the machine also comes with a fantastic bundle of apps that you do not have to buy. The iWork suite of apps is one example; iMovie is free and it’s one of …

On macOS, the hard drive or the SSD, whichever you have is usually a single disk. You do not partition a disk on a Mac as you would on a PC but that doesn’t necessarily mean you cannot create additional volumes within the same disk on a Mac. You can. …

Preview has quite the set of editing tools for images. You can crop and resize an image, you can draw over it, and you can convert it to a different format. Generally speaking, when you edit an image in an image editing tool, the changes are permanent. With Preview though, …

Skype has slowly been returning to its roots and adding lots of new, useful call features. It’s recently added a subtitle feature for calls, a bookmarking option for messages, and a neat screen sharing feature for its mobile apps. As of a recent update, you can now schedule a group …