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While using the macOS Finder, you may have noticed a sidebar listing titled “Recents.” This is a smart folder that searches for files that have recently been used.

There may be times when you find it necessary to share your internet connection with other users on your local network. If that is the case, here’s how you do it in macOS.

Sometimes you may need to hide the Systems Preferences in macOS to prevent unwanted changes. (I’m looking at you, wife ‘o mine!) Here’s how...

The Mac Mail app is pretty smart and is pretty much reliable at associating an email address with a particular account, so I don’t set up a specific return address in Mail. However, when you reply to an email, you can choose a different return email address than the one associated with it.

The password of your user account in macOS is known as your login password. It's the password you use to log in to your Mac and make certain changes, such as installing software. But have you ever forgotten it? If so, you can often reset it – this article shows several different ways. Hopefully, one of them will work for you!

With Mail on macOS, it’s easy to reply to or forward messages (and it may get even easier with macOS Big Sur this fall – stay tuned). What’s more, if a message contains attachments, you can include them if you wish. Here’s how...

Microsoft Office is a suite of must-have apps for some folks. Not me, but I do need/have to open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint doc occasionally. But it's not a problem, and here's why.

If you’re short on space on your Mac, you can free up a lot of space by moving your Photos library to an external drive. Here’s how to do this: Make sure you have back-ups of your pics. (Which, by...

Do you find yourself typing the same ol’ replies when using Mail in macOS? Not necessary, my friend. You can set up macOS Mail to respond automatically to incoming messages with a text you have pre-composed. Here’s how to set up an auto-response message in Mail...