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Purchasing a new Mac is always exciting, but before you can dive in and start enjoying your shiny new laptop, there’s the small matter of migrating everything from your old machine, to your new one. That means transferring all your important documents, photos, music, videos, apps, user accounts, settings…the list goes on! Don’t let this […]
Your Mac’s Launchpad provides a single place where you can launch all the apps installed across your Mac, without having to pin every last app to your Mac’s Dock, or navigate to your ‘Applications’ folder everytime you want to launch something new. A big part of Launchpad’s appeal is its simplicity – you open it […]
Malware, leakware, scareware, spyware, adware – it seems like there’s an ever-growing list of threats Mac users need to be aware of.
Do you find yourself performing the same boring, monotonous tasks time and time again? Folder Actions is a powerful, but often-overlooked, feature of MacOS that aims to take the pain out of repetitive tasks, by performing them for you. If that sounds a bit like Automator, then that’s because it is! The only major difference […]
Are you trying to show an app or file the door, but something is preventing you from deleting it? There’s several reasons why a file or app may insist on hanging around long after its welcome has run out. In this article I’m going to show you how to delete even the most stubborn file […]
You can use the Automator app that comes pre-installed on your MacBook to automate an almost endless array of everyday tasks – including those repetitive, monotonous and time-consuming tasks that everyone hates! Simply boot up Automator, grab some items from its various menus and drop them into Automator’s built-in editor. You can then tweak, customise […]
Do you want to find out exactly how well your Mac is performing? Maybe you want to see how it compares to other machines with similar specifications, or maybe you’re curious about how much faster that shiny new Mac you saw on sale really is, compared to the one you have now? Benchmarking is a […]
While you should always be vigilant against malware regardless of your device or operating system, MacBook users recently got a reminder about the importance of security, with the discovery of two new examples of macOS malware: Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor and OSX/Keydnap. Thankfully, two new pieces of Mac malware in a week isn’t something that happens often, but […]
If you’re desperate to try the new features coming up in Sierra, the good news is that you don’t have to wait until autumn – you can get your hands on the Sierra beta today. However, before you install Sierra (or any software that has the beta label) just be aware that “beta” pretty much […]
A normal email signature is all that most people need, but if you want to pack more information and more design into your emails, then you may want to check out Mail’s support for advanced, HTML-based stationery templates. In an earlier tutorial, we showed you how to create custom signatures. In this tutorial, we’ll go […]
One of the new macOS features that’s already available via the Sierra beta, is the ability to automatically sync the entire contents of your Desktop and Documents folders with your iCloud account. In the pre-Sierra world, if you wanted to sync a file with iCloud then you had to go to the effort of manually […]
Do you seem to spend half your life staring at Apple’s spinning beach-ball cursor? Maybe you’ve noticed that apps are taking longer to launch, or maybe your MacBook as a whole is taking longer to boot. One of the biggest factors that determines your Mac’s overall performance, is the amount of memory that’s available. So […]
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