Nadine writes: I have a Macbook Air I bought at the end of 2013. I find lately that when I’m using it on battery just to do normal chores and not streaming, the battery dies very quickly. Is it time to get a new battery? How much do they cost? Hi Nadine! I feel...
So, let’s say you’re doing a little shopping, performing some online research, or otherwise digging around the web, and you want to save all the tabs you have open. Instead of creating bookmarks for your open tabs one-by-one, try a two-click Safari feature...
Maybe you mousing hand needs a break, or perhaps you need to move the mouse pointer one teeny-tiny pixel at a time. In either case, there’s a way to move the Mac mouse pointer with the keyboard rather than nudging the mouse or swiping your trackpad. The trick:...
Whether it’s spring cleaning time or you’re simply in the mood to clear out some clutter, there are plenty of easy ways to clean up your Mac. Read on for seven ways to give your Mac a deep digital clean, from tidying your desktop icons to organizing the...
Annoyed by the clutter of windows on your Mac desktop, or just looking for an easier way to drag files from one folder to another? Time to try one of the Mac’s most overlooked features: folder tabs. Just like the Safari web browser, each Mac folder window is...
Nope, you don’t have to go to the trouble of launching a program like, say, Photos or Preview just to take a peek at an image file, nor must you open Microsoft Word (ugh) to flip through a Word file. Instead, you can take a quick look at just about any file on...
Thanks to the handy mac dock at the bottom of your Mac desktop, your favorite programs, files, and folders are never more than a click away—and once you know what you’re doing, you can make the mac dock behave practically any way you want. Indeed, you can...
A great way to focus on a single Mac window is to put it into full-screen mode, which hides the desktop, the top menus, the dock, and everything else but the task at hand. Sounds good, but what if you need to focus on a pair of windows? If so, you can still make use...
