Tag Archives: Mac OS X

You can pin folders that you frequently need to access to the Dock on macOS. When you click a folder on the Dock though, it doesn’t open in Finder. Instead, you either see the ‘fan’ view of the file in it, or you get a little window that allows you …

MacBooks, like iPhones, rarely ever get stuck to the point that they’re unusable. A MacBook may freeze but in most cases, it will be usable again in a while. Of course, that’s not always the case. A MacBook can freeze and since it has a battery, you can’t just power …

SSDs are becoming common on laptops but those of a larger capacity cost quite a bit. On Macbooks, paying for a bigger SSD often means an exponential difference in the price tag. If you have a Macbook with a smaller SSD, and no HDD to go with it, you want …

Keyboards, whether they’re for a Mac or a PC, have keys that can mute the sound on a computer. What they don’t have is a key that will mute the mic. Mics are only ever used when you chat and rarely for anything else. If you record audio, you likely …

A Mac keyboard has four modifier keys; Control, Option, Command, and Shift. These keys are used to execute shortcuts on the OS level, as well as in apps. If you have a different keyboard set up, one where one or more modifier keys are useless or a problem, you can …

Picture in picture is a feature found in both Chrome and Safari. The feature doesn’t work for every single media player and Chrome has an extension to make up for most players that won’t switch to PiP mode. If you don’t use Chrome, or you want a non-browser tool that …

Safari is very different from both Chrome and  Firefox in terms of UI. It certainly has features that these other browsers do not but over the years, it hasn’t switched over to a minimal UI like Firefox has. You will find that, as far as UI is concerned, the browser …

When you boot your Mac, the image that greets you on the login screen behind the user profile image is the default Mojave image. Once you’re signed in though, the login screen will always show you the same image that is set as your desktop background. You only see the …

If you often create documents in Photoshop where the canvas is a certain size, it’s a good idea to save that size as a preset. A document preset in Photoshop can be used to quickly open a new file that has a few predefined basic features e.g., the canvas size, …

Picture-in-picture mode is quickly becoming a thing. YouTube and Chrome have it out of the box and on macOS, both Safari and iTunes have it too. Safari is a capable browser but it’s not a stand-in for media players and iTunes, as of 2019, is going the way of the …