OS X

Changing the name of a user account on your Mac

Every Mac has at least one user account on it, whether it's your own or you've made another account for someone else to use.

At some point, you may feel the urge to change the name of one of your user accounts. It doesn't matter if the account is an administrator or a regular user; we'll show you the steps in this tutorial to change an account's user name on your Mac.

Disable Mac App Store password prompts for 15 minutes after a purchase

Have you ever went on an app downloading spree in the Mac App Store only to find that it was going to ask for your password every time you wanted to download a paid app on your Mac?

If you're the only user on your Mac, then you probably don't want to or need to be bothered with having to enter your password each and every time.

Instead, macOS includes a feature that lets you disable password prompts for additional purchases for up to 15 minutes following your first Mac App Store purchase in a succession. We'll show you how to configure this feature in this tutorial.

How to set up repeating reminders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Repeating reminders on iPhone

Reminders are useful when you want to make sure you don't forget something, and all too often, you need a reminder for the same thing more than once at different intervals.

Whether you need a repeating notification each month to remind you to keep up with your car payment or credit card bill, or a weekly reminder to remind you that you're getting paid and need to stop by the bank before picking up dinner for the family, repeating reminders are very useful.

They come in handy because you don't have to set up more than one reminder. You can just set it up one time, and it's going to notify you on a reoccurring basis depending on the interval you set.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to set up a reminder that repeats more than once on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Importing data to Safari from another web browser

Love it or hate it, Apple's Safari is a zippy web browser that performs well on the Mac, and it continues to get more and more competitive with other web browser platforms.

Since Apple wants you to use Safari on your Mac, it's a no-brainer they're going to make it easier to migrate your web data from one web browser to another.

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to import bookmarks to Safari, along with your other web data, from a different web browser.

macOS Sierra preview: Auto Unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch

Auto Unlock, a new feature in macOS Sierra, gives you instant access to your Mac when you’re wearing an Apple Watch. As its marketing name suggest, Auto Unlock is seamless. You simply wake your Mac from sleep while wearing your watch, and boom—just like that, you’re logged in and ready to go, no password typing required. Here's our entertaining video walkthrough of Auto Unlock and a detailed overview of the feature for those interested in its inner workings and intricacies.

Customizing the toolbar in your Mac’s Preview app

Every Mac has the Preview app installed on it from the factory, and it's the default app for opening many kinds of image file types, including PDF files.

Of course, the app has much more to offer than meets the eyes, and today we'll talk about how you can customize the app's toolbar to give yourself a little more functionality at a glance.

Pro tip: make an applet that quits all opened Mac apps instantly

Those of you with Macs know that you can't just click on the Close button to exit out of most apps. Instead, you have to physically quit those apps after you're done using them.

On the other hand, if you just can't be asked to take the time to do that, we're going to show you a really easy way to make an applet that can be used to quit all of your Mac's running apps at once.