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Access an iCloud Contacts List from Mail Composer in Mac OS X

Jan 15, 2014 - Leave a Comment
Quick Address Panel in Mail app for OS X

The Mail compose window has long had an auto-complete function that lets you start typing a name or email address to see a list of suggestions for completing the contacts email. That list is based upon who you’ve email and also what contacts you have in your address book, but now with the newest versions … Read More

Get Song Lyrics with Siri from the iPhone or iPad

Jan 15, 2014 - 4 Comments

Everyones favorite digital friend Siri can improve your music experience and song recollection by retrieving song lyrics for you. Whether you’re aiming for some spontaneous iPhone based Karaoke, looking to settle a dispute over what an artist is saying, wanting to add some lyrics to a song that is missing them, or just wondering what … Read More

View Extended Weather Details in Weather App for iPhone

Jan 14, 2014 - 4 Comments
Get more specific weather details from the iPhone

Obviously the Weather app on iPhone will tell you temperatures and a five-day forecast, but the revised default iPhone Weather app can also provide additional weather information without having to ask Siri. This includes much more specific data, like humidity, the chance of rain, the wind speed and direction, and the current heat index. You’d … Read More

Defragmenting a Mac Hard Drive: Is It Necessary?

Jan 13, 2014 - 36 Comments
Defrag a Mac drive

Many Mac users who come to the platform from the world of Windows have become accustomed to defragging their PC hard drives from time to time, and thus the inevitable question arrises: do you need to defragment a Macs hard drive? The answer is usually no, you don’t need to defrag a Mac as part … Read More

Hang Up a Phone Call on the iPhone by Tapping the Power Button

Jan 13, 2014 - 28 Comments
End a call on the iPhone by tapping the power button

Many of us use our iPhones for so many tasks that it’s easy to overlook some of the simpler functionality of the device, like making and ending phone calls. With that in mind, we’ve got a nice trick to hang up an active call faster, without having to touch the devices screen at all. It’s … Read More

How to View a Macs Disk Usage & Storage Summary in Mac OS X

Jan 11, 2014 - 12 Comments
Mac Disk Usage and Storage Summary

Ever wondered where on earth your Mac hard drives disk space has gone to? There’s little reason to wonder, because Mac OS X has a very simple disk usage summary tool that that will show you exactly where drive capacity is being used, conveniently sorted into a variety of file types. Looking at the storage … Read More

Instantly Close All Safari Tabs in iOS 7 for iPad & iPhone

Jan 10, 2014 - 4 Comments
Close All Tabs in Safari for iOS

Users of the Safari web browser in the iOS world probably already know that you can close a single browser tab with either a tap of the (X) button, or by swiping the tab away to the left of the screen on the iPhone or iPad. But what if you have a whole bunch of … Read More

Fix Many Common Safari Issues in Mac OS X with a Simple Reset

Jan 9, 2014 - 45 Comments
Safari

Web browsers generally work fine on the Mac, but every once in a while Safari in OS X will misbehave in some way or another. The most common of these issues encountered are typically things like random pages inexplicably being inaccessible or displaying oddly, stale cache being delivered (in normal person terms, that means an … Read More

Move Windows, Apps, & Desktops Between Multiple Displays in Mac OS X with Mission Control

Jan 8, 2014 - 12 Comments
Multiple Display window management with Mission Control in Mac OS X

Mission Control is the excellent window management utility in OS X that lets you get a quick overview of everything you have open. While Mission Control has always been able to drag windows and apps between different virtual desktop Spaces, a new ability has been added to modern versions of OS X that allows Mac … Read More

Store Credit Cards Securely in Safari AutoFill on Mac

Jan 8, 2014 - 4 Comments
iCloud Keychain Credit Card storage and autofill

Do you use the Safari browser and shop on the web often from a Mac with Mac? If so, you can greatly speed up your checkouts and online ordering by storing credit cards securely within Safari’s AutoFill Keychain. This makes it possible to instantly autofill card information when ordering on any site, and if you … Read More

See What Twitter is Saying About Any Topic with Siri

Jan 7, 2014 - 1 Comment
Get Twitter details on a topic with Siri

Twitter has long had integration into iOS and OS X, from being able to post new tweets or share various things through the service, but Siri is getting even more tweet-happy in the latest versions of iOS. Using a few simple commands, you can check the hoard consensus on any topic by just asking Siri. … Read More

Delete Voicemails from the iPhone One at a Time or Multiple at Once

Jan 6, 2014 - 36 Comments
Phone icon

If your iPhone voicemail box gets hit up constantly and you actually listen to the messages, each voicemail message gets downloaded locally to the iPhone and takes up some storage space. For most users, this is usually an inconsequential amount of data ranging from 5MB-100MB, but for those who send a lot of calls directly … Read More

How to Set a Firmware Password on a Mac with macOS Mojave, Sierra, OS X El Capitan, Mavericks

Jan 6, 2014 - 14 Comments
Set a firmware password on a Mac

Mac users in higher security risk situations may wish to enable an optional firmware password on their machines,which offers an advanced level of protection. In short, a firmware password is a lower level layer of security that is set on the actual Mac logicboards firmware, rather than at the software layer like FileVault encryption or … Read More

How to Enable & Control Access for Assistive Devices & Apps in Mac OS

Jan 5, 2014 - 5 Comments
Accessibility feature

Assistive Devices and Assistive Apps are applications and accessories which can control parts of the Mac and MacOS beyond the normal scope of app limits. While it’s primarily thought of as an Accessibility feature, it’s also commonly uses for general apps too, ranging from screen sharing functions, to apps that require microphone access, to even … Read More

Fix a Flickering Screen Issue with External Displays on Mac After Updating Mac OS X

Jan 4, 2014 - 63 Comments
Fix a flickering not-working external screen problem with Macs

Having recently went through the process of updating a handful of Macs to the latest versions of Mac OS X as part of a gifting tech support campaign, several Macs developed an odd flickering display problem that was only visible when an external monitor was connected to the Mac. On an 11″ MacBook Air, the … Read More

Preventing Manual Password Resets on a Mac by Using FileVault Security

Jan 3, 2014 - 5 Comments
Secured Mac

Nearly all Mac users have a login and password required to access the Mac upon boot (and if you don’t, you should!), which provides a reasonable layer of password protection to keep out most prying eyes. Users with more advanced security needs may need to go further to protect their Mac from unauthorized access though, … Read More

Delete GarageBand, iMovie, & iPhoto If Unused to Free Up Disk Space in Mac OS X

Jan 2, 2014 - 13 Comments
Delete Garageband, iMovie, and iPhoto from Mac OS X

The wide variety of default iApps which come preinstalled on most Macs these days are all great applications, but if you don’t actually use them, they just take up disk space. Case in point are Garageband, iMovie, and iPhoto, three fantastic apps for making music, editing videos, and managing photos, but if you never use … Read More

4 Free Mac OS X Utilities That All Mac Users Should Have

Jan 1, 2014 - 26 Comments
Must have Mac utilities

Mac OS X may come with plenty of great apps and utilities to get you started, but there are a few incredibly helpful utilities that are either missing or could be improved. That’s what we’re focusing on here, with four of the most helpful third party utilities for Mac OS that everyone should have on … Read More

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