Use Your MagSafe Power Adapter’s “Wings”

For many years, Apple has shipped MagSafe power adapters with Mac laptops (although the 12-inch MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro laptops have different adapters with USB-C ports). Many people have never realized that the MagSafe adapter has two “wings” on the corners on either side of the integrated cable. Flip them out and you can [...]

By |2017-03-07T19:41:40-04:00March 24th, 2017|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Use Your MagSafe Power Adapter’s “Wings”

Get New Finder Windows to Open Where You Want

Does it bother you when you open a new Finder window and it doesn’t show up where you expect or in the right view? Here’s how you fix that. Press Command-N, and get the window looking exactly as you want it in terms of position, size, and view type. Then, before doing anything else, [...]

By |2017-03-07T19:36:23-04:00March 21st, 2017|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Get New Finder Windows to Open Where You Want

How to Install Fonts into Font Book

Back in the 1980s, the thing that set Macs apart from PCs more than anything else was the Mac’s support for different fonts. Over the years, font formats and how you work with fonts have changed, though things have remained fairly stable since Mac OS X became mature. However, despite the fact that there [...]

By |2017-03-07T17:53:34-04:00March 14th, 2017|Mac Tips|Comments Off on How to Install Fonts into Font Book

Pin Frequently Used Web Sites in Safari Tabs

Everyone has a few Web sites that they check every day, or even multiple times throughout the day: a social network, a Web-based email app, a go-to news Web site, or a favorite online comic. The desire to access certain sites quickly and repeatedly isn’t new, of course. Over the years, Apple has added [...]

By |2017-03-07T17:32:36-04:00March 7th, 2017|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Pin Frequently Used Web Sites in Safari Tabs

Secret Spotlight Features for Mac

Many of us use Spotlight everyday to find files or applications, but did you know Spotlight is much more powerful than just that. This month, we will show you four great ways to get even more from Spotlight. 1.Unit Conversions: Open Spotlight by pressing command+spacebar, or by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the top [...]

By |2016-02-02T00:26:50-04:00February 2nd, 2016|Apple, Mac, Mac Tips, Training, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Secret Spotlight Features for Mac

Search with natural language

You know there’s a document you worked on last week but for the life of you, you can’t remember what you called it. Never mind. You can open Documents and search, assuming you’ve ordered the contents by date. Or in the Spotlight search box you can type “Documents I worked on last week” and they’ll [...]

By |2015-11-19T08:10:28-04:00November 19th, 2015|Mac Tips, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Search with natural language

Smarter Spotlight Search

El Capitan has been given a lot more information to help you find stuff quicker. So there’s sports information, stock quotes and video search, so the results it comes up with are more varied and more detailed even before you leave the Spotlight box. Oh, and by the way, you know how infuriating it was [...]

By |2015-11-12T08:08:23-04:00November 12th, 2015|Mac Tips, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Smarter Spotlight Search

Wiggle to enlarge the cursor

This one is superbly simple and very useful. You know how you sometimes can’t find the cursor? You’re maybe reduced to right-clicking the mouse just so the drop-down menu appears to reveal the little blighter. Then right-click again to hide the menu and continue. El Capitan has the answer. The natural movement to find the [...]

By |2015-11-05T08:00:48-04:00November 5th, 2015|Mac Tips, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Wiggle to enlarge the cursor

Swipe to delete emails

Swipe across the trackpad with two fingers to the left and the email gets deleted or swipe right to mark the message as unread. Swipe to the right again and the message is marked as read again. It’s just another way that iOS and Mac OS X are getting closer to each other. (trustedreviews.com)

By |2015-10-29T08:00:12-04:00October 29th, 2015|Mac Tips, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Swipe to delete emails

Snap windows to either side of the screen

Computers are great at multi-tasking but sometimes it’s easy to lose track of the live windows when you get busy. You can now have two programs open at the same time in the equivalent of full-screen view. Each one is assigned half the display though you are free to adjust the relative proportions of the [...]

By |2015-10-22T08:00:41-04:00October 22nd, 2015|Mac Tips, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Snap windows to either side of the screen
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