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TextEdit’s Hidden Talents

TextEdit is one of the apps included with each copy of macOS, but it is overshadowed by word processing apps like Pages and Microsoft Word as well as dedicated text editors like Ulysses and Bear. Today we'll look at some of TextEdit's hidden talents, which may increase your use of this often-overlooked tool. Open and Save Word Documents Our first...

How to EQ the System Audio on a Mac

The Apple Music App has an okay (i.e., usable) equalizer with plenty of presets for the average user. It can help compensate for the small speakers on your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro or fine-tune the bass and treble in...

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How to Force Quit a Frozen App in macOS Catalina

Sometimes a Mac app freezes up and you have to kill it. Well, not actually kill it, but you may have to force it to quit so you can relaunch it. Here’s how you use Force Quit an application in...

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Apple Maps: Positive Changes for 2020

Last June at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple made its usual announcements about upcoming changes to its operating systems -- iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS. Among the changes were some hotly-anticipated upgrades to Apple Maps, the company's homegrown...

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