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How to Use a Hidden *Darker* Dark Mode Theme in MacOS Mojave

Jan 27, 2019 - 15 Comments
How to enable the Darker Dark theme in Mac OS

If you like Dark Mode in MacOS, you may appreciate knowing that MacOS Mojave has a secondary secret darker version of the Dark interface theme available with slightly greater contrast, and it’s easy to enable despite being unlabeled and almost entirely hidden in plain sight.

How to Change Microsoft Office Theme on Mac

Jan 21, 2019 - 16 Comments
How to Change Microsoft Office theme appearance on Mac

The Microsoft Office suite of apps include distinct visual themes that make those apps easy to identify, for example Microsoft Word on Mac has a dark blue visual theme on the Mac, Excel is green, and Powerpoint is red / orange. If you’d like to change the appearance theme of Microsoft Office apps, including Word, … Read More

5 Ways to Decorate a Mac Desktop for the Holidays

Dec 24, 2018 - 3 Comments
Mac Christmas desktop decorations

Feeling festive? Want to decorate your Mac for the holidays? How would you like to have a lovely falling snow screen saver, some holiday lights blinking around the perimeter of the Mac display, and maybe even some snow falling on the desktop itself? With the help of a handful of utilities, you can get all … Read More

How to Use Reduce Motion on Mac to Disable Most Animations

Dec 17, 2018 - 3 Comments
How to disable animations on Mac by using Reduce Motion

The Mac has many visual animations that draw on screen as you perform various actions throughout the operating system, whether it’s the zooming in and out of opening Mission Control, or sliding between desktops in Spaces, amongst others. These provide for some enjoyable visual eye candy, but some users may find the animations cause motion … Read More

Get the Apple TV Space Screen Savers on Mac

Dec 2, 2018 - 5 Comments
Get the space screen savers from Apple TV on Mac

Some absolutely stunning space screen savers exist on the latest Apple TV system software versions, presumably captured from the International Space Station, or perhaps some other satellite. Thanks to a third party effort, you can get those gorgeous space screensavers from the Apple TV on a Mac too, in up to 4k video resolution.

How to Change System Font to Lucida Grande in MacOS Mojave

Nov 16, 2018 - 4 Comments
Get Lucida Grande as system font in MacOS Mojave

Do you wish your MacOS Mojave Mac was using Lucida Grande as the system font, back like it did years ago? There’s no need to rub a genie bottle for such a wish, because developer Luming Yin has created a simple utility that modifies the system font in MacOS Mojave to be Lucida Grande, rather … Read More

Get the 8 Colorful Abstract New iPad Pro Wallpapers

Oct 31, 2018 - 5 Comments
8 new colorful wallpapers from iPad Pro

Apple introduced the all new 2018 iPad Pro with a snazzy redesign, and as is often the case with new iOS hardware, the latest iPad Pro comes with a collection of all new wallpapers. The latest batch of iPad Pro wallpapers feature colorful splashes, smears, and swirls of various paints, and the abstract art images … Read More

How to Enable Dark Mode on MacOS (Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave)

Oct 12, 2018 - 15 Comments
How to enable Dark Mode theme in Mac OS

The Dark Mode theme available in modern macOS versions offers a unique visual interface and desktop environment to work in, shifting nearly all onscreen visual elements to dark grays and blacks. For many Mac users, the Dark theme is perhaps the most popular new feature to arrive in MacOS Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur, and … Read More

How to Enable Dynamic Desktops in MacOS

Oct 4, 2018 - 4 Comments
How to use Dynamic Desktops on Mac

Dynamic Desktops are a new feature in MacOS that allow the desktop background wallpaper of a Mac to change throughout the day as the time changes. Perhaps the most prominent example of this feature is the default desktop in macOS, whether in Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, or Mojave, which when Dynamic Desktops is enabled will … Read More

Grab the 12 iPhone XR Wallpapers of Bubble Colors

Sep 16, 2018 - 1 Comment
iPhone XR Wallpaper on iPad

The iPhone XR features a variety of snazzy wallpapers that are color matched to the devices themselves, each showing a colorful bubble or two that almost look like planets in some otherworldly conditions. Along with the 3 colorful oily bubble iPhone XS Max wallpapers they make for some visually appealing abstract background imagery for just … Read More

Download the 3 iPhone XS Max Wallpapers of Bubbles

Sep 15, 2018 - 1 Comment
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max Wallpapers

The new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max include some fanciful wallpapers of colorful bubbles, they look sort of like bubbles of oil paints or even some fictional gas planets, but you don’t need to pre-order one of those fancy new iPhones to get your hands on the snazzy wallpaper images. If you want to … Read More

Enjoy 25 Gorgeous New MacOS Mojave Wallpapers

Aug 3, 2018 - 15 Comments

The latest version of macOS Mojave includes some beautiful new wallpapers of desert scenery, flowers, and abstractions, but you don’t need to install macOS Mojave beta or be running macOS Mojave to be able to enjoy the lovely images, and the wallpapers look fantastic on any other Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, Android device, Linux … Read More

How to Set an Animated GIF as Screen Saver on Mac OS

Jul 23, 2018 - 5 Comments
Use an animated GIF as screen saver on Mac

Have you ever wished you could have an animated GIF as the screen saver on a Mac? Well there’s no reason to wish, because an animated GIF screen saver can be a Mac reality, with no rubbing of genie bottles needed. Using an animated GIF as a screen saver is a bit goofy and probably … Read More

How to Get Dynamic Desktops on Any Version of Mac OS – Without Mojave!

Jul 16, 2018 - 10 Comments
Dynamic Desktops on any version of Mac OS

Dynamic Desktops are an interesting feature in MacOS Mojave that cause the desktop wallpaper to change throughout the day with the time, mimicking the changes in lighting that would occur in a scene as the day and night progresses. It’s a subtle but cool feature that brings some life to an otherwise static wallpaper. But … Read More

Grab the 2 Default macOS Mojave Wallpapers

Jun 6, 2018 - 7 Comments

MacOS Mojave includes a few stunning new wallpapers that are appropriately desert themed, showing off some gorgeous sand dune formations. The new desktop backgrounds include one picture of sand dunes basked in sunlight for the light theme of macOS Mojave, and another showing the same sand dunes draped in darkness lit by nothing but moonlight … Read More

Get the iOS 12 Default Wallpaper for iPhone and iPad

Jun 6, 2018 - Leave a Comment
The iOS 12 Default Wallpaper

Now that iOS 12 has been announced and the beta is out in the wild, many iPhone and iPad users are likely yearning for the gorgeous colorful abstract iOS 12 default wallpaper that is prominently splashed across the demo and preview images of devices running the latest iOS beta preview. But there’s no need to … Read More

Enjoy a Beautiful Water Droplets Wallpaper

Jan 13, 2018 - 1 Comment
iPhone water droplets wallpaper

Looking for some nice subtle wallpaper to space up your device background? How about a spin on that classic good old water droplets default wallpaper from way back in iOS 4? Well that’s exactly what these reader-provided high resolution images of water droplets offer, and at a hefty high definition resolution it looks great as … Read More

9 Classic Mac OS Tiling Wallpapers

Jan 1, 2018 - 16 Comments

If you’re an extra longtime Mac user, you might remember way back in the 1990s when desktop backgrounds on classic Mac OS versions were tiled images of various textures. This was way back when the idea of setting a single image as wallpaper was a bit extreme because it was excessively resource heavy, and so … Read More

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