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Need to type the Apple logo , copyright ©, an em dash —, or a degree symbol °? macOS gives you fast options: keyboard shortcuts (Option/Shift combos), the on-screen Keyboard Viewer, and the searchable Emoji & Symbols panel.
When it comes to your Macbook’s battery, there’s two things that all Mac users worry about: Making sure each charge lasts as long as possible. Because there’s nothing quite like the mad panic of scrambling around looking for your charger, while your Mac is threatening to slip into sleep mode in 3, 2, 1… Making […]
Your user account and home folder are created when you first setup your Mac, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rename them! Maybe you purchased a second-hand Mac and the previous owner didn’t do a particularly good job of wiping their personal data; maybe you made a typo in your username and it’s been bugging […]
Autocorrect can save you the embarrassment of sending a typo to your boss, by detecting every time you make a spelling mistake, and correcting it for you automatically. This sounds great, but autocorrect doesn’t always get it right. Sometimes it may change your typo to completely the wrong word, and occasionally it may even misidentify […]
Content Caching is one of the major new features introduced in High Sierra. If you have multiple Apple devices, then this new macOS service can reduce the amount of bandwidth and time it takes to download software distributed by Apple. In this article, we’re going to look at what High Sierra’s content caching is, how […]
Being tracked by online advertisers is something we all worry about. There’s something seriously unsettling about searching for a product once, only for that exact same product to suddenly crop up in every single advert you encounter across the web! According to Freedom to Tinker, advertisers have a discovered a new way to track your […]
How many times have you forgot to plug the external hard drive into your Mac, only for your scheduled Time Machine backup to fail as a result? Creating a backup is one of those annoying tasks that’s easy to keep putting off, especially if you need to attach an external hard drive to your Mac every […]
macOS automatically scans for available networks and then uses various criteria to determine which network it should connect to. Most of the time this will result in your Mac seamlessly connecting to your home or office Wi-Fi, but sometimes this behaviour can cause problems. Imagine your neighbour isn’t as clued-up on digital security as you, […]
Most of the time, turning off your Mac is as simple as selecting ‘Apple > Shut Down’ from the menu bar, but occasionally your Mac may refuse to shut down as expected. Maybe your Mac is taking longer to power down than normal; perhaps there’s a particular app that keeps getting in the way of […]
It’s pretty common practice for websites to store cookies on your computer, and despite their bad reputation some cookies can actually improve your browsing experience. Cookies are how websites identify repeat visitors, allowing them to deliver a version of their website that’s optimised for each visitor. For example, if you tell a website to display […]
Regardless of whether you’re using an external display, or you’re happy with your Mac’s built-in display, your screen resolution settings determine how large text and images appear onscreen, and also affects the sharpness and clarity of everything you see on your Mac. Every model of Mac has a default resolution that’s designed to give you […]
Adding a password to your Mac is essential for helping to keep your sensitive files and personal information safe from prying eyes, but what happens if you forget or lose this password? Does it mean you can never log into your Mac again? Even if you haven’t password-protected your Mac’s login screen (and if you […]
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