22 articles tagged sierra — page 2 of 2.
macOS may have been using the San Francisco font since El Capitan, but if Lucida Grande still has a special place in your heart then it is possible to make Lucida Grande your system font on both El Capitan and Sierra. Even if you’ve been using Macs for a while, then it’s possible you may […]
Is there a file or folder on your Mac that you’d prefer to keep under wraps? Maybe it’s a guilty-pleasure song or movie; perhaps you share your Mac with other users and are sick of them snooping around your folders, or maybe your Mac contains some particularly sensitive files, and you want the added security […]
Many languages use accents and diacritic marks to change how a letter or vowel sounds. If you find yourself regularly needing to type accented words, or are bi-lingual and switch between multiple languages, then knowing some shortcuts for typing accented characters can save you a tonne of time. In this article, I’m going to share […]
Screen sharing is where you temporarily give someone else the ability to view and control your Mac’s screen, and vice versa. Screen sharing can be useful in a number of scenarios, but it’s particularly useful if you’re experiencing problems with your Mac, as it allows an engineer to remotely access your Mac, so they can […]
Every Mac comes with a range of icons that are used to represent your files, hard drives and folders in the ‘Finder’ window and on the Desktop, but you don’t have to use these default icons. While macOS’ default icons do communicate some basic information about each item, macOS uses the same icon for all […]
Apple’s voice control assistant has finally found its way onto macOS, with the release of macOS Sierra. In this article, we’re going to cover everything you need to know, in order to get started with Siri on your Mac. Launching Siri on your Mac When you installed Sierra, one of the setup screens asked whether […]
Back in October 2016, Apple unveiled their brand new MacBook Pro – and introduced an unexpected new feature. The 2016 MacBook Pro saw the removal of the familiar row of function keys that have pretty much become a staple feature of Mac keyboards, and in its place we have a brand new OLED display. Rather […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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