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: How to make use of Spotlight on your Mac

What can Spotlight do for you? Spotlight is a search shortcut provided for Mac users to locate and access apps, documents and other files. As a super [...]

: How to Improve Battery Life on Your Mac

Experiencing battery issues on your Mac? Wondering how to improve the battery life? Generally speaking, the battery life depends on how you use your Mac [...]

: How to fix Finder when it is not working on Mac

User report 1: Finder becomes unresponsive every time I try to empty the trash. User report 2: Finder works oddly after I update to OS Mojave. How to [...]

: How Do I Turn Off Apple News Notifications on Mac?

It is a default setting that Apple News sends notifications to the Mac, splashing a steady stream alerts across the display, even onto the locked screen, [...]

: Several Useful macOS Tips that Might Come in Handy

If you think that there are many hidden features in macOS, that means you haven’t discovered them yet, not that they are really hiding from you. Either [...]

: How to Rearrange, Remove or Add Icons in Mac’s Menu Bar

Question 1. What components reside in the menu bar on your Mac? In macOS, the menu bar on the top of the screen allows you to quickly access system and [...]

: Mac Trick: Add a Custom Lock Message on Login Screen

In any version of OS X starting with 10.7 Lion, you could set up a custom message to display at the bottom of the login window, which would appear when [...]

: What to Do when Your Mac Freezes

What to do if an application stops responding on your Mac? How to get your Mac working again? You may need to unfreeze a program (or even the system) when [...]

: How can you force quit an application on a Mac?

Normally, you can shut down an active Mac app by two options: the first is to right click on its icon in the Dock and to choose Quit, and the second is to [...]

: Can my Mac run Windows? How to run Windows programs on Mac?

Some Mac beginners may at times wonder if their Macs can run Windows system or the Windows-based programs. The theoretical answer is YES. Most recent Mac [...]

: Useful Finder tips every Mac user should know

Looking for some Finder tips to boost the productivity of using your Mac? You may spend much time in the Finder to manager and organize your files. [...]

: How Can I Get Apps on My Mac?

How can I get the applications installed on my Mac? If you are a Mac beginner, or you just switch from Windows platform, you may have many questions about [...]

: How to Manage Login Items on Your Mac

Having too many startup items that slow down your Mac? How to stop some apps from running automatically when you turn on the Mac? Or instead, how to add [...]

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