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Did you know that you can control access to the camera on your Mac, even turning it completely off if you wish? You can, and it’s easy. Some apps and websites can use your camera to take photos or capture video. You can decide which apps are allowed to use the webcam on your Mac. Here’s how: How to Disable...
Recently, Dennis Sellers published a great article on How to Start Your M1 Mac in Safe Mode. Safe Mode is just one of many Mac startup modes. In this post I'll list those modes for the M1 Macs, what they're...
In March 2020, Apple acquired Dark Sky, an iOS/Android app that offers “hyperlocal” weather info with down-to-the-minute forecasts. Some of its features have been rolled into the Weather widget on macOS Big Sur. One is the addition of precipitation predictions...
Over the years, we've provided a lot of tips on how to recover space on your Mac, one of which is to delete your browsing history in Safari. That's all fine and good, and it will definitely open up megabytes...
Over the years, we’ve recommended using DiskMaker X as a quick and easy way to create a bootable install disk for various versions of macOS. Guillaume Gète, the developer of DiskMaker X, has decided to call it quits with the...
If you wish, you can rename your macOS user account and your home folder, both of which were named when you created the account. Before you proceed... The name of your user account and home folder have to be the...
