How do you right-click on a Mac when your Mac’s trackpad doesn’t have a right-click button? That’s a common question, and luckily there’s an easy answer—four of them, in fact. For starters, you can… Method No. 1: Here’s the classic...
On most Mac keyboards, the function keys—you know, those keys along the top of the keyboard marked “F1,” “F2,” “F3,” and so on—don’t get the luxury of having an entire key to themselves. Indeed, the function keys often have to share their keys with volume controls,...
Rather than a traditional trackpad-plus-button setup, the newer MacBook trackpad is essentially one big button. Press it hard enough, and you’ll eventually feel a “click.” Clever? Sure. Personally, though, I find clicking the newfangled MacBook trackpad feels...
Having a hard time maneuvering your fingertips around multi-key combinations like CONTROL + ALT + DELETE (for launching the Windows Task Master) or COMMAND + SHIFT + N (to create a new Mac desktop folder)? Join the club. Luckily, both Windows and Mac systems come with...
Want to wake up each morning to a freshly brewed pot of coffee and a fully powered-on Mac? It’s easier than you might think. Just like the timer on your coffee machine, the built-in clock on your iMac or MacBook can start up—or shut down—your Mac on any schedule you...
So, you know how to snap an image of your iPhone’s screen—but what if you want to take a screenshot of your Mac’s desktop? Well, there are actually five ways to snap a screenshot on your Mac, and they’re all just a few keystrokes away. 1. Take a screenshot of the...
Every time I download a file using Safari on my Mac, the file ends up in my Downloads folder—and each and every time, I drag the file out of my Downloads folder and onto my desktop. There must be a better way, right? Well, there is, actually—and in fact, you can make...
Once upon a time, every window on a Mac desktop had big, easy-to-click and impossible-to-miss scroll bars that never, ever disappeared. Since 2011’s “Lion” update to Mac OS X, however, Apple has adopted an “barely there” policy when it comes to scroll bars. Indeed,...
