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What is fileproviderd on Mac & Why Does it Use High CPU?

Mar 16, 2024 - Leave a Comment
The fileprovidered process on Mac

A process named fileproviderd may be discovered by some Mac users, usually seen in Activity Monitor when someone has discovered that their Mac feels like it’s running slower than usual. There, fileproviverd may be using high amounts of CPU, and by using heavy system resources, the Mac slows down.

How to Find Universal Control Settings on MacOS Sonoma & Ventura?

Mar 15, 2024 - 3 Comments
Universal Control settings as found in System Settings

Universal Control is one of the most useful features available for Mac users who have multiple Macs and iPads that they’d like to control with a single mouse and keyboard, it works really well and offers a great experience once it’s setup and working. But, like so many other recent changes to the Mac that … Read More

Use the Terminal cheat Tool to Generate CheatSheets for Commands

Mar 14, 2024 - Leave a Comment
How to use the cheat command to generate cheatsheets for the command line on Mac

While there are some command line wizards out there who never need to look at references, search manual pages, defer to command lists, LLM queries, or web searches, the rest of us mere mortal commands line users can be helped by a really great tool called cheat. The cheat command is able to provide a … Read More

USB Hub & External Monitors Not Working After MacOS Sonoma 14.4 Update for Some Mac Users

Mar 13, 2024 - 2 Comments
USB hubs are not working for some Mac users after updating to the latest Sonoma release

Some Mac users are discovering that USB-C hubs and external monitors are no longer working with their Mac after updating to macOS Sonoma 14.4. This issue can apparently impact anything connected to the USB Hub as well, leaving the USB hub devices undetected by the Mac, including keyboards, mice, external displays, SD card readers, cameras, … Read More

Compare Loans Easily on iPhone, Mac, iPad, with Numbers App

Mar 13, 2024 - Leave a Comment
You can compare loans easily with the Numbers app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

If you’re shopping for a loan, let’s say for buying a car, you’ll undoubtedly have a few loan options. Comparing loans can be intimidating and daunting, and it’s hard to know which option is right for you, or which loan may make the most sense for your particular situation, especially when the pressure is on … Read More

6 Helpful Mac Keyboard Shortcut Tips

Mar 12, 2024 - 6 Comments
Useful Mac keyboard shortcuts

If you are a Mac user, you might be interested in some specific keyboard shortcuts tricks that can make your MacOS computing experience more efficient and maybe even be more productive too. Here are six useful Mac keyboard shortcut tips that will improve most people’s MacOS experience, usage, and workflow.

2 Easy Ways to Compress Images on Mac

Mar 11, 2024 - 2 Comments
How to compress images on Mac

Compressing images can be a necessary task for many Mac users, whether they’re getting ready to post an image to the web, share a photo through email or messages, or they’re simply trying to compress and reduce the file size of an image for any other purpose. There are several ways to compress images on … Read More

Fix WeatherWidget Using Heavy CPU & Slowing a Mac

Mar 10, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Terminate the WeatherWidget process to restore CPU behavior

WeatherWidget is a process you may encounter on a Mac when looking through Activity Monitor or a system stats app, a task that many advanced Mac users find themselves doing if they notice their Mac performance is slowing down. The reason, of course, is that Activity Monitor (or similar) will show you what processes are … Read More

MacOS Ventura 13.6.5 & macOS Monterey 12.7.4 Updates Available

Mar 8, 2024 - Leave a Comment
MacOS Ventura 13.6 and macOS Monterey 12.7

Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.6.5 and macOS Monterey 12.7.4 to Mac users who continue to run the Ventura and Monterey operating systems, and who are not interested or able to run the freshly released MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update. Additionally, Safari 17.4 is available as an update alongside macOS Ventura 13.6.5 and macOS Monterey 12.7.4. … Read More

Setting the Default Web Browser from Command Line on Mac

Mar 8, 2024 - 2 Comments
Mac Terminal icon

Many advanced Mac users spend a lot of time working from the command line with the Terminal application. The command line offers ways to interact with various settings in MacOS through defaults commands and other tricks, so it’s a reasonable question to wonder if you can set or change the default web browser on a … Read More

MacOS Sonoma 14.4 Update Released with New Emoji & Bug Fixes

Mar 7, 2024 - 1 Comment
macOS Sonoma 14.4 update

MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update has been released by Apple for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update includes cutting edge new Emoji icons like a mushroom, lime, phoenix, broken chain, and shaking heads, along with new versions of existing Emoji icons that face the opposite direction. Additionally, there’s support for … Read More

RC of macOS Sonoma 14.4 Available for Testing

Mar 4, 2024 - 1 Comment
MacOS Sonoma beta updates are available

Apple has released an RC build for macOS Sonoma 14.4 for Mac users who are engaging in the beta testing program for macOS. The RC build for Sonoma 14.4 arrives alongside RC builds for watchOS 10.4, tvOS 17.4, and visionOS 1.1, roughly a week after the RC builds for iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 became … Read More

Create a Budget on iPhone, Mac, & iPad, with Numbers

Mar 4, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Make a personal budget easily on your iPhone, Mac, or iPad, with the Numbers app and a spreadsheet

Budgeting is a critical part of life and financial management, allowing you to easily allocate your income and manage expenses. While anyone can overcomplicate the budget process, it doesn’t have to be that way, and thanks to Apple software that is freely available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, you can easily setup a budget in … Read More

Arc Browser is a Web Browser, Reimagined

Mar 3, 2024 - 7 Comments
Split screen browser view

Arc is an interesting new take on the web browser, aiming to be more like a little mini operating system than just another browser app. It has some fascinating features and a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get the swing of things, you may find you really appreciate the reimagined browser … Read More

See Who Sent You a Link in Safari on iPhone, Mac, iPad

Mar 1, 2024 - Leave a Comment
See who sent you a link quickly in Safari

The latest versions of Safari for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, support a handy feature that allows you to quickly identify who sent you a particular link or webpage that you have open in the browser. This ‘sent from’ link feature is useful if you engage in a lot of exchanging of URLs between friends, coworkers, … Read More

How to Fix “Your system has run out of application memory” on Mac

Feb 28, 2024 - 5 Comments
Mac error Your system has run out of application memory

Rarely, a Mac can experience a memory leak which causes MacOS to run out of memory. When this happens, it’s fairly obvious because not only does the Mac become unresponsive, but you see an error message on the screen that says “Your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, … Read More

How to Mount & Copy HFS Classic Mac Drives on MacOS

Feb 27, 2024 - 3 Comments
Copy classic Mac HFS drive data to modern MacOS

Modern versions of MacOS no longer support HFS, meaning that new Macs can no longer read, mount, or write to classic HFS drives. But a fair amount of longtime Mac users continue to have older Macs and old Mac hard drives that are in HFS format, way back from the days of Mac OS 8, … Read More

How to Recover Unsaved Word Documents on Mac with AutoRecovery

Feb 26, 2024 - 2 Comments
Microsoft Word icon

While you should get in the habit of frequently saving your documents as you work in them, including in Microsoft Word, things don’t always go as planned. Many modern Mac apps will automatically save progress as you work in them, and Microsoft Word is one of them. Thanks to a feature called AutoRecovery, which saves … Read More

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