Mac OS

The Messages app for Mac is incredibly useful in that it allows Mac users to seamlessly communicate over iMessage with other Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and it allows Mac users to send text messages to Android users too, but the latest versions of Messages on the Mac are known for randomly using high amounts of … Read More

A fair number of Mac users have discovered that the Apple Music application will seemingly spontaneously open itself at random, and even play music, without being prompted to do so. That Apple Music will randomly open itself and even start playing music is highly undesirable behavior for many Mac users, and thus it’s reasonable to … Read More

Now that MacOS Sequoia is available for all Mac users to update and install, you might be wondering which of the many new features and changes are particularly enticing, and that you might actually use. Rather than overwhelm you with a list of twenty seven trillion new things that you will quickly forget about, here … Read More

Apple has issued new software updates for MacOS Sonoma 14.7 and MacOS Ventura 13.7, for users who are not yet installing the freshly released MacOS Sequoia 15.0 system software upgrade. Both MacOS Sonoma 14.7 and MacOS Ventura 13.7 contain security fixes, and are therefore recommended to all Mac users. There are no new features or … Read More

macOS Sequoia has been officially released by Apple, and is now available to all Mac users. Versioned as MacOS 15.0, Sequoia takes its name from the famous big trees and national park in Apple’s home state of California. macOS Sequoia brings some exciting new features to the Mac, most notable being iPhone Mirroring, an intriguing … Read More

Apple has issued the macOS Sequoia 15 release candidate build for Mac users participating in the beta testing programs, for both developer and public beta testers. Separately, you’ll find downloads for iOS 18 release candidate, iPadOS 18 release candidate, watchOS 11 release candidate, tvOS 18 release candidate, and visionOS 2 release candidate, for those eligible … Read More

Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15 beta 8 for users enrolled in the developer beta testing program. The same build matches macOS Sequoia public beta 6, which is also available. You will also find iOS 18 beta 8, iPadOS 18 beta 8, watchOS 11 beta 8, tvOS 18 beta 8, and visionOS 2 beta 8, … Read More

MacOS Sequoia, versioned as macOS 15, is an exciting new operating system for Mac users. MacOS Sequoia includes a variety of intriguing new features that could make you even more productive while using your Mac, including iPhone Mirroring, new window tiling features, AI enhancements to Safari and Mail, a dedicated Passwords app, new screen savers … Read More

Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, but what is unique about Llama is that you can run it locally, directly on your computer. With a little effort, you’ll be … Read More

The 7th beta version of macOS Sequoia 15 has been released for testing to those in the developer beta testing program. The same build is available to public beta testers as public beta 5. Additionally, iOS 18 beta 7, iPadOS 18 beta 7, watchOS 11 beta 7, tvOS 18 beta 7, and visionOS 2 beta … Read More

Longtime Mac users may recall a handy old shareware application for the Classic Macintosh called Stapler, which essentially helped manage projects by grouping a series of apps and documents into a single document that when opened would then launch all of those documents and their respective programs. Much easier than digging around in your file … Read More

Apple has released the second beta of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, each with support for Apple Intelligence AI features, on supported devices anyway. The release of these new beta updates is unusual in that they’re concurrent with betas for iOS 18.0, iPadOS 18.0, and MacOS Sequoia 15.0, each of which does … Read More

Apple has issued the 6th beta version of MacOS Sequoia for users enrolled in the developer beta testing program. Usually a matching public beta build arrives soon after, which in this case dev beta 6 would be versioned as public beta 4. MacOS Sequoia brings some nice new features to the Mac, including iPhone Mirroring … Read More

Among Us is a very popular multiplayer game where you work together with other players to identify imposters among them, before the imposter can sabotage them. You might know Among Us as being for iPhone and iPad, but you can play it on your Mac as well, whether that’s a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac … Read More

If you feel like you have spent a significant amount of your time updating system software on your Apple devices lately, you’re in for a treat; another round of system software updates! This time around, Apple has released MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 along with MacOS Ventura 13.6.9 for Macs, complete with bug fixes, just one week … Read More

MacOS Sequoia beta 5 is now available for users enrolled in the developer beta testing program to download and install onto their Macs. MacOS Sequoia beta 5 carries the build of 24A5309e, and usually a new developer beta build is soon followed by a matching build for public beta testers as well. MacOS Sequoia is … Read More

As you might know already, using the latest versions of PowerPoint on Mac offers two handy features that are aimed to prevent data loss; autosaving, and autorecovery. Autosaving does just what it sounds like, and it will automatically save a file that you’re working on even if you don’t manually save it yourself. The next … Read More

You might be aware that VMWare Fusion Pro is now free to download and install, and perhaps you installed it on a Mac to test virtual machines or to play around with, and now you’ve decided you no longer need VMware on the Mac. But VMware Fusion Pro does not come with a dedicated uninstaller, … Read More