One of the bigger surprises of the 21st century was Apple’s rapid switch from PowerPC chips to Intel CPUs. It didn’t happen overnight, and there were a few glitches, but Apple pulled it off. Macs run on the … Continue Reading »
How To Use The Menubar To Navigate Your Mac’s Folders With A Click
How do you navigate the folders on your Mac? If you’re like most of us, you use the Finder. It works, but navigating through a bunch of folders requires plenty of extra clicks. Click to get to the … Continue Reading »
A Tale Of 5 Apps To Clean, Repair, Optimize, Customize Your Mac (and 3 are free)
What’s the latest trend on the Mac? Apparently, it’s apps that clean, repair, optimize, and customize Macs. They’re everywhere. Some even advertise all over Mac-oriented web sites with promises to improve performance. The price tag for apps that … Continue Reading »
5 Ways This Swiss Army Knife App Keeps Your Mac Running Better
Despite a plethora of free Mac apps that clean and protect your prized computer, there are still plenty of users willing to shell out some coin to do that which can be done for free. A case in … Continue Reading »
Got Gmail? Get Gmail Into Your Mac’s Menubar For Instant Email Access And Alerts
Not every Mac user has Gmail, but there’s an app that makes Gmail more fun to use. Instead of having to switch back and forth from what you’re doing to Mail or a browser window to check email, … Continue Reading »
A Cheap Mac App That Gives You A Pain Free, Instant Backup Experience
If there’s a trend among apps for the Mac, it’s in the arena of simple backups. Everyone wants a cheap Mac app that does one thing very well. How about an instant backup of your valuable files? A … Continue Reading »
Do You Like iCloud Or Dropbox? Guess Who Has A Mac App For Another Free Cloud Storage Service?
Remember Apple’s iDisk? That was a cloud-like storage service that didn’t last. Then along came Dropbox, then Apple’s iCloud, and others. Guess what? Everybody wants to give you a piece of the cloud. For free. All you have … Continue Reading »
Get The Mac App That Knows When Your Mac’s Hard Disk Drive Is Dying
My office Mac system has multiple hard disk drives for backup. Files, apps, Time Machine, and a few backup apps still don’t give me the peace of mind I’d like. Is there a way to know when a … Continue Reading »
How To Teach Your Mac To Remember Everything You Copy Or Cut
What’s the one function all Mac users learn early and use often? Cut, copy, paste. Command-X, Command-C, Command-V. Everything we copy or cut gets stored on the Mac’s clipboard so we can paste it somewhere else. What’s wrong … Continue Reading »
A New Way To Use Your Mac To Wake Up Each Day
How many ways can you use a Mac? Our favorite Cupertino computer does more than browse the web, check email, display photos, play music or video. If we could add iPhone’s Siri intelligent assistant to a Mac and … Continue Reading »
An Easy Way To Find And Replace Text In Multiple Documents At The Same Time
Here’s the scenario that’s baffling to many Mac users. You have a dozen documents that have the wrong address. The normal way to change the old address to the new address is to open all 20 documents, and … Continue Reading »
A Simple, Easy Way To Backup And Sync Folders Mac To Mac
We practice what we preach. Mac360 believes in file backups and synchronizing. There are a few dozen Mac apps to help you save your files in more than one location. An extra hard disk drive, another Mac, or … Continue Reading »
ControlPlane Helps You And Your Mac To Know Where You Are And It Knows What To Do
I travel, therefore, I’m tired. For years when I would travel across multiple time zones I’d keep my watch on Eastern Standard Time. That required me to do a mental calculation every time I looked at my watch. … Continue Reading »
How Much Is This Handy Calculator Worth To Mac Users?
Every Mac comes with a calculator app. Calculators are almost a dime a dozen. Many are free, most are inexpensive, and even the good ones won’t set you back much more than lunch. How much is a handy … Continue Reading »
The Easy Way To Sync Your Mac’s Keychain To Another Mac Or iOS Device
Have you ever looked at your Mac’s Keychain? That’s the somewhat hidden app that stores and retrieves your Mac’s login IDs and passwords. The passwords for your Mail accounts? They’re in the Keychain. Those login ID and passwords … Continue Reading »
How To Password Protect The Apps On Your Mac
If you share your Mac with others, especially at home, you may want to prevent others from using specific apps. In Mac OS X’s System Preferences you’ll find Parental Controls and options to set up a guest account … Continue Reading »
The Easiest Way Ever To Share Files Mac To Mac
Despite Apple’s attempts to make it drop dead easy for Mac users to share files, at times it’s still more like rocket surgery or brain science. For Macs on a home network users can share files using AirDrop, … Continue Reading »
Resize And Relocate Your Mac’s App Windows Automatically And For Free
If there’s one negative about modern Mac computing it’s windows. Not Windows. Windows. Today’s iMac and Mac notebooks have these wide screens; great for watching movies. Not so great for managing multiple apps, each with multiple windows. Most … Continue Reading »