macOS Catalina has a central place for the Apple ID account details in System Preferences, letting you review important tips and notifications for your account, access and adjust security features, update iCloud settings, manage media and purchases, and more.
Need to find the IP address for your Mac? This tutorial walks you through ways to find both your internal and external Mac IP addresses.
Have you been wondering how you can find out the exact dates when apps and macOS were last updated on your Mac? This tutorial shows you how.
Toggle between Light and Dark Modes on your Mac with a single click. Here’s how to create a Light / Dark Mode switch for your Dock.
Mojave has re-introduced the software update preference pane of old, moving the feature from Mac App Store back into System Preferences where it used to be in the past.
Power scheduling lets you set a custom time for your Mac to automatically start up, wake, sleep, restart or shut down. You might do this if you want to be sure your Mac turns off when you aren’t working and turns on before you come to work.
Did you know you can set your Dock to automatically hide when not in use? This is a great way to regain a little bit of screen real estate on your Mac. In this post, we will show you how to automatically hide and show the Dock, and we’ll even share a pro tip to make the hide/show animation faster.
Don’t worry, macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 will resolve this bug.
Learn how to remap the Mac’s modifier keys to non-default actions. This feature is especially useful if you are an experienced touch typist who finds some of the default modifier key actions a bit awkward to use.
With less than 24 hours away until Apple’s “Hello again” Mac event, images of an unreleased MacBook Pro found in the latest macOS Sierra 10.12.1 update have all but confirmed a rumored OLED touch bar replacing the row with hardware function keys.
The Internet immediately complained about the apparent loss of the hardware Escape key that seems to have fallen victim to these programmable OLED keys. While the OLED Bar could display a soft-Escape key in the left corner, users can now assign its function to one of the hardware modifier keys.
As Jeff Geerling first noted yesterday, the latest macOS 10.12.1 Sierra update now conveniently lets you remap an Escape action to a Caps Lock, Control, Option or Command modifier key—which wasn’t possible in earlier macOS editions.
It looks like iOS 10 may not be the only Apple operating system to include dark interface assets as Mac developer Guilherme Rambo tweeted out a number of screenshots showing a dark interface theme in several stock applications on macOS Sierra, including Safari and System Preferences.
This mode is different in appearance than macOS’s existing setting for enabling dark menu bar and the Dock in System Preferences → General.
In this tutorial, you will learn about the most important Mac System Preferences shortcuts and how you can leverage them to make the most from the app.