The Dictation feature of macOS allows you to talk where you would type. You can reply to an email, search the web, or write a report using just your voice. Here’s how: Navigate to any text field, activate Dictation, then...
The Keychain Access app in macOS lets you view the keys, certificates, passwords, account information, notes, and other info stored in a keychain. A keychain is a locked, encrypted container used in Keychain Access to store account names and passwords....
March 24, 2001, was a banner day for Mac users. On that day, twenty years ago, Apple introduced the next generation of the Mac operating system – Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah." The introduction was no small matter, as it...
We’ve all been there. Haven’t we? When your perfectly fine Mac becomes an oversized paperweight because everything has been updated and your computers no longer play nicely with hard drives, apps, or other peripheral devices.
This poor MacBook Air is experiencing the "white screen of death" From time to time, you may experience one of the more frustrating Mac glitches – a white screen during boot. Usually, this rare bug happens after updating macOS to...
You often have one chance to get a really good picture. That makes it upsetting when an opportunity is lost because tapping the Camera app shutter button blurred a photo. With this short tip, I'll offer two methods of using your voice to take a picture with the Camera app.
Apple’s myriad devices work together seamlessly — except when they don’t. I recently ran across an irritating problem in that my Mac quit allowing me to send messages in the Messages app. It took me a while to find the...
I have a very embarrassing admission to make: after 33 years of being a Mac user, I was completely stumped when I recently tried to force quit and restart my 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Fortunately, I was able...
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...
