With macOS High Sierra and later, the Contacts app automatically creates a contact card for you—called your me card—when you set up your Mac. Information on your card, such as your name, email address, or picture (if you add one),...
I have six email addresses: five business ones and one personal address. If I don’t set a default mail account, each time I write a new email it's sent from one of my business addresses. If I want to send...
You can delete a single page or delete specific pages from the history list in the Safari web browser in macOS on a Mac. It’s helpful to keep things uncluttered, easy to accomplish, and only takes a few steps.
It’s easy to use Safari in macOS Sierra (and later) and iCloud Keychains to keep your credit card data in sync between your Mac and iOS devices. And it’s easy to add or remove a credit card. Note: Keychain is...
Do you have multiple files you need to rename? Thankfully, batch-renaming files in macOS isn’t difficult. Here’s how: Start in the Finder. And remember not to confuse the Finder with the Desktop. The Finder is the first thing that you...
Have you ever needed to select more than one item in the macOS Finder? It’s easy! There are several different ways to select files and folders: click and drag, shift-click, and command-click. They each work differently – here's a description of each one.
The other day I noticed that one of the external drive icons on my Mac Desktop had vanished. Thankfully, it’s easy to remedy this, as well as make sure your Macintosh HD is showing up. Of course, the first thing...
Though Apple slowly phased out optical drives from its Mac lineup over the years, you might still have a MacBook or desktop Mac with a disc drive. You might also have an external solution with a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive. At some point, there’s a chance that a CD, DVD or Blu-Ray disc is going to get stuck in your Mac or external optical drive. Fortunately, there are some simple steps that can be taken to force eject a disc that’s stuck.
The Messages app gets a pretty big revamp in macOS Big Sur, making it easier to search all your past conversations for links, photos, and phrases. Here's how to search: The “new search experience,” as Apple calls it, organizes your...
