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Tips for Using the Mac’s Notification Center

The Notification Center was added to the Mac with the release of OS X Mountain Lion in the summer of 2012 and was meant to corral a stampede of push services that was threatening to inundate users with uncontrolled notifications popping up everywhere, or at least so it seemed. The Notification Center unified how notifications are handled, displayed, and controlled...

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How to Connect Your iPhone to Your Mac via Bluetooth

Using Bluetooth, you can connect your iPhone to your Mac to sync iTunes wirelessly on both devices. Or you can do this to connect to a Personal Hotspot, which lets you share the cellular data connection of your iPhone or...

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15 Mac Menu Bar Apps You Should Check Out

Menu Bar apps sit in your Mac's menu bar and provide access to an array of features and services, all with just a simple click or tap of the app’s menu bar icon. They can bring additional productivity, utility, or...

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How to Tell If Your Mac’s Software Is 32 or 64-Bit

Beginning June 1, 2018, all new app updates submitted to the Mac App Store had to support 64-bit. Apple is expected to phase out support for 32-bit apps in macOS 10.15, which will almost certainly be previewed at the 2019 Worldwide...

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Top 10 Greatest Mac Keyboard Shortcuts of All-Time

Okay, the term “greatest” is certainly subjective in this case. But trying to explain myself with a disclaimer in the title would be way too complicated and confusing. I’m not even sure if a web browser could parse a URL...

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