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Add all of your favourite Preference Panes to the Dock

Add all of your favourite Preference Panes to the Dock

Jessica Thornsby · Jan 20, 2019

System Preferences is one of the most important applications on your Mac, packed with preference panes that let you control everything from screen brightness, to parental controls, and whether your files are automatically backed up to iCloud. However, not all preference panes are created equally! If there’s one or more preference panes that you use […]

Unlock the Power of Symbolic Links – with or without the Terminal

Unlock the Power of Symbolic Links – with or without the Terminal

Christopher Lee · Sep 5, 2017

Symbolic links (sometimes also called symlinks or soft links) are shortcuts that can point at any file, directory, app or utility, located anywhere on your Mac. While symbolic links share many similarities with macOS’ better known alias feature, there are several important differences that make symbolic links much more powerful. Firstly, you can use symbolic […]

System Preference Tricks Every Mac User Should Know

System Preference Tricks Every Mac User Should Know

Jessica Thornsby · May 11, 2017

Your Mac’s System Preferences provides a control center where you can customise pretty much every part of your Mac. Whenever you want to change something at the system level, System Preferences should be the first place you turn, but are you really getting the most out of this app? In this article, we’ll be looking […]

Customise any macOS keyboard shortcut with AppleScript and Quicksilver

Customise any macOS keyboard shortcut with AppleScript and Quicksilver

Christopher Lee · Feb 25, 2017

Your typical Mac comes with a wide range of built-in keyboard shortcuts that can seriously boost your productivity and generally make using your Mac more enjoyable. However, when it comes to tweaking these built-in keyboard shortcuts to better suit your needs, by default macOS isn’t as flexible as some other operating systems. In this tutorial […]

How to use Launchpad on your Mac like a pro

How to use Launchpad on your Mac like a pro

Jessica Thornsby · Oct 13, 2016

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 […]

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