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Mac OS, Mac OS X, or macOS, is the operating system that resides on Apple’s desktop and portable computer lineup. Built upon a Unix core, it is easy to use yet highly advanced, extremely stable, and an excellent OS for productivity and creation. Browse through our articles or use the search feature to look for something specific that is pertinent to the Mac operating system.

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How to Use the iPhone Camera as a Zoom Camera on Mac

Feb 22, 2023 - 2 Comments
Zoom icon

The iPhone camera offers a much higher resolution camera experience than the built-in cameras on Macs, so if you’re a frequent Zoom meeting attendee or host, you may appreciate using the iPhone camera instead of the funky camera in most Macs. Let’s take a look at how easy it is to use your iPhone camera … Read More

How to Enable & Use Stage Manager on Mac

Feb 21, 2023 - 1 Comment
Stage Manager settings on Mac

Stage Manager is an alternative multitasking interface available for the Mac that allows you to juggle between active apps in a different way. It’s a bit more minimalist because Stage Manager defaults to hiding your desktop, and it only shows up to four apps at once, allowing you to focus on what you’re working on. … Read More

Show All Open Files, Directories, Sockets, Pipes, Devices, by All Running Processes on Mac with Sloth

Feb 20, 2023 - 2 Comments
Sloth GUI for lsof Mac app

If you’re an advanced Mac user and you’d like to easily see all running processes and which files, directories, sockets, and pipes are open by those processes, the free Sloth tool may be useful to you. The Sloth app is basically a GUI front-end to lsof, a powerful command line tool that allows you to … Read More

Browse the Web Without CSS, JS, or Images with the Kristall Browser

Feb 18, 2023 - 3 Comments
Simple web browser Kristall on Mac

Want a super simple internet browser for gemini, gopher, finger, and of course http and https? Kristall is a fun little app that strips away css, JS, and graphics on websites, leaving you with a pure text experience. It does support styles with HTML, gemini, and markdown, however, which makes it perhaps more usable than … Read More

Run MacOS Ventura on Unsupported Mac with OpenCore

Feb 17, 2023 - 26 Comments
OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Do you have an older Mac that is not able to run MacOS Ventura, but that you’d like to run MacOS Ventura on? You may be able to accomplish that through the help of a third party tool called OpenCore. While the official list of Macs compatible with MacOS Ventura is fairly limited and requiring … Read More

MacOS Big Sur 11.7.4 Released with Bug Fixes

Feb 16, 2023 - 1 Comment
macOS Big Sur

Apple has released MacOS Big Sur 11.7.4 with bug fixes for Mac users who are continuing to run the MacOS Big Sur operating system. MacOS Big Sur 11.7.4 fixes an issue with Safari where favorite icons would not load, and apparently also includes some security updates. No concurrent update is available for MacOS Monterey users, … Read More

How to Schedule Sending Email in Mail for Mac

Feb 16, 2023 - 3 Comments
How to schedule sending emails on Mac

The Mail app in MacOS now supports the ability to schedule the sending of emails. Scheduling email is fantastic for so many obvious reasons, for both work and personal purposes, and for people like myself who forget important days like anniversaries and birthdays. You will need to have Mail app in macOS Ventura 13.0 or … Read More

Adjust External Display Brightness on Mac with MonitorControl

Feb 15, 2023 - 1 Comment
Control external display brightness with MonitorControl on Mac

Have you ever wished the keyboard brightness adjustment keys on a Mac could control the brightness of your external displays? Ever wanted to change the brightness on a secondary display, right from your Mac? For users with multi-monitor setups, controlling brightness on multiple screens can be a chore when you have to manually fiddle with … Read More

How to Delete a Page in Word (Mac & Windows)

Feb 14, 2023 - 4 Comments
Microsoft Word icon

As just about any Microsoft Word user knows, often you will create a Word document that ends up containing unwanted blank pages, usually at the end of the document, and these wind up getting printed or included in Word-to-PDF files unnecessarily. You may encounter this with any Word document creation, or even converted Pages docs … Read More

MacOS Ventura 13.2.1 Update with Bug Fixes & Security Patches Available

Feb 13, 2023 - 2 Comments
MacOS Ventura update

Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.2.1 as a software update for Mac users running the Ventura operating system. The update is said to include bug fixes and security updates, and is therefore recommended to install for all eligible Mac users. Separately, Apple released iOS 16.3.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 16.3.1 for iPad, along with updates to … Read More

How to Mount SMB Share from Command Line on Mac

Feb 13, 2023 - 4 Comments
Mac Terminal icon

Need to mount an SMB network share from the command line of MacOS? There are a few different approaches to mount SMB shares from the command line, and we’ll cover two different methods to mount network shares on the Mac using Terminal.

How to Stop Pages & Numbers Saving to iCloud on Mac by Default

Feb 10, 2023 - 4 Comments
How to Stop Pages & Numbers Saving to iCloud on Mac by Default

If you’re someone who uses Apple’s Pages and Numbers apps to work on documents on your Mac, you’d probably know that the files are saved to iCloud by default. Not everyone wants to store these documents on iCloud and this could be an annoyance to some. Thankfully, you can change this in two different ways.

How to Change a File Type’s Default App in MacOS

Feb 9, 2023 - 1 Comment
How to Change a File Type's Default App in macOS

Do you want to change the default application that your Mac uses to open a specific file type or file format? You’ll be excited to know that there are multiple ways to go about this and it’s pretty easy to change the default app for various file types on your system.

How to Use iPhone as FaceTime Camera on Mac

Feb 7, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Use iPhone as a FaceTime Camera on Mac

The latest versions of macOS system software allow for using your iPhone as a FaceTime camera and webcam, offering a much higher resolution and higher quality video chat experience, especially compared to the built-in cameras on most Mac computers.

Open Terminal by Keyboard Shortcut on Mac

Feb 6, 2023 - 4 Comments
Open Terminal by keyboard shortcut on Mac

Ever wished you could instantly launch the Terminal app on Mac by keyboard shortcut? Instead of relying on Spotlight and typing Terminal and hitting return, which works great and has for many years, you can actually create your own custom keyboard shortcut to open the Terminal app on MacOS. This article will detail how you … Read More

Set Custom Dock Settings for Mac When Connected to External Displays with HiDock

Feb 5, 2023 - 1 Comment
HiDock for Mac

Have you ever wished that MacOS could have different settings for the Dock, when connected to an external display, versus using only the built-in display? Or that MacOS would know when your MacBook Pro is connected to an external display and automatically adjust the Dock positioning, or size? That’s exactly what HiDock does, a free … Read More

WhatsApp for Mac with Native Apple Silicon Support Available in Beta

Feb 4, 2023 - 3 Comments
WhatsApp for Mac with Apple Silicon support

WhatsApp, the popular messaging client, is now available for the Mac with native Apple Silicon support. The WhatsApp client for Apple Silicon is currently in beta, but it is stable and functions fairly well, and should offer better performance compared to builds intended for older Intel Macs. Interested users who don’t mind beta testing software … Read More

How to Change Wallpaper on MacOS Sonoma & Ventura

Feb 2, 2023 - 21 Comments
How to change the desktop wallpaper in MacOS Ventura

Setting your desktop background picture to an image of your choice is an easy and fun way to customize your desktop Mac experience. With MacOS Sonoma and Ventura, how you change the Mac desktop wallpaper has changed a bit, which has led to some confusion for some longtime Mac users. Long gone is the familiar … Read More

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