It's very easy to get your spelling checked while you're typing in macOS. However, this feature can range from awesome to annoying – it works just fine in an attempt to automatically correct typos and misspellings, because it instantly compares your words against an extensive dictionary. The appreciation of this feature is highly subjective though, because how effective it is depends on how you type, how accurate you are and how often you might type untypical words. Read More…
Mac Optimization Articles
How to Use Recovery Mode on macOS
You won't use it very often, but recovery mode is a powerful component of macOS that will come in handy for various scenarios that involve fixing issues with your Mac in some form. Called macOS Recovery, it has its own partition and you or the Mac doctor will use this utility from time to time to recover from certain software issues or take other actions on the machine. Read More…
5 macOS Features That Can Improve Your Productivity
Each major release of macOS (formerly OS X) brings a set of new features and changes to Apple's operating system, meant to improve the user's workflow and optimize the Mac's performance. With every major release, users expect Apple to address major issues experienced on a daily basis, including the likes of memory management, web browsing, privacy options, and more. Read More…
The Best Automator Scripts for macOS
macOS includes a ton of great features for improving and enhancing your user experience, but one highly useful and often neglected tool is Automator. And from the name alone you might already be able to guess what this friendly robot was designed for: to perform tasks to speed up your workflow, such as automatically renaming files in a folder, resizing images, and much more. Read More…
How to Remove a Boot Camp Partition From Your Mac
Are you receiving that uncomfortable notification from macOS informing you that “your disk is almost full“? You can save space by optimizing storage using iCloud Drive – if you rent enough space from Apple – or reclaim space by removing the Boot Camp partition that was required when you installed the Windows operating system. Read More…
How to Manage Startup Items on Mac
Every time your Mac is turned on a number of applications, add-ons and invisible background processes start running automatically. In most cases these actions are exactly what you want to begin, but there are times when not all of the items that startup when the system does were added by you or, at least, you don't remember adding them or no longer need them. Read More…
Unnecessary Processes on macOS You Can Kill
If you’re the sort who likes to keep on top of the apps running on your system, then you’ve probably already encountered those stubborn processes that, despite quitting the application, keep behind-the-scenes core or periphery application processes running in the background, consuming processing power and draining your battery. Or, out of the blue, the Mac slows down because one of these processes start to run, suddenly eating up 100% of the CPU. Ending this process will improve the overall performance of the computer, especially in systems with less RAM. Read More…
How to Delete Sleepimage on macOS
One of the best features of using a portable computer is that all the documents and apps you left open are available immediately after opening the MacBook's lid. But did you know that this feature comes with a cost, and is in fact eating into your limited disk space? Read More…
How to Disable System Integrity Protection on macOS
The golden era of the Mac as a virus-proof computer has ended, and malware has become a serious issue that Apple needs to address if it wants to be able to stand by the message it puts out to its users: Apple takes your privacy very seriously. Read More…
How to Uninstall GarageBand on Mac
Although Apple makes an effort to ensure that all of its pre-installed Mac apps are great, not every app is going to be your go-to utility on macOS. Take iMovie, Photos, or GarageBand as examples: the first is nice, easy-to-use software for editing videos; the second will help you manage photos; and GarageBand is a fantastic app for recording music. Read More…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- …
- 16
- Next Page »