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There are times when you may wish to use Safe Mode on your Mac. For instance, it can help you resolve or isolate problems that you’re having. When you start up in Safe Mode, your Mac prevents some software, such as startup items, from loading. It also performs a check of your startup disk to see if any issues you’re...
You can customize lots of icons on your Mac, including the ones for your Mac’s built-in drive, external hard drives, and external SSDs. There are several ways to do this, but here is a simple one that I like to use whenever I want to change the icon of a drive on my Desktop.
We're coming up on the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of us have become very accustomed to using Zoom for everything from online work meetings to virtual exercise classes, we might not be using the tool to...
A useful but very overlooked tool in macOS is the Dictionary app, which allows you to look up word definitions and phrases from a variety of sources. How to look up a word in the macOS dictionary To look up...
My friend Steve Sande recently wrote a great post, "AirDrop Files From Your iPhone or iPad to Your Mac." I had to chuckle when he submitted it for publication, telling him that I was actually in the middle of putting...
As of macOS Big Sur, when you use Voice Memos, you can use a new option to automatically reduce background noise and echo with a single click, which is useful when you're recording lectures or meetings. You can also use...
