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AirPlay (formerly called AirTunes) provides Apple users with a way of streaming media from one device to another over a local network, typically their home Wi-Fi. Using AirPlay, you can stream audio from a Mac or iOS device to any AirPlay-enabled audio system, or stream video from your Mac or iOS device to an Apple […]
Never run out of memory again! We’re all guilty of clogging up our computers with things we don’t really need. No matter how large your Mac’s built-in memory, if you keep creating files then sooner or later you’ll need to spring clean your Mac in order to free up same space – and that’s where […]
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 […]
Has your MacBook been acting strange recently? When you encounter an issue with your MacBook, most of the time the software is to blame, for example maybe an app is misbehaving or your operating system is out of date. However it’s not impossible for hardware to fail or become faulty, so if you suspect your […]
Whether the problem lies with a single app or the operating system in general, we’ve all experienced our MacBook locking up at some point. Although freezes should become less and less common with each release of MacOS, even if your MacBook only locks up occasionally, that doesn’t make it any less annoying when it does happen!
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 […]
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