How to Create Recovery Partition in Mac
While I was doing maintenance for my Mac, using the Maintenance app, the app told me that my disk partition needed to be repaired. So, as usual, I reb…
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How to Force Quit Mac Apps
Mac OS X is a great operating system. It’s stable but it isn’t perfect. Once in a while, the application you are working on may freeze (or hang). …
How to Install Windows Boot Camp Without An Optical Drive
Editor’s Note: Previously, we published a post by Daniel Pataki on How To Install Windows on Mac when all else fails. Alvaro is one of the many read…
How to Create a Static Blog with Cactus
Update: The Cactus app is no longer available. Consider checking out How to Build a Static Blog Using Assemble for an alternative. If a CMS is not req…
How to Install Windows on Your Mac (When All Else Fails)
I have a 2011 iMac and I’ve installed Windows on it successfully before. The process was extremely straightforward. I popped in my Windows disk and …
How To Sync OneNote Notebook Across OS X And Windows Phone
Before Evernote, I was a long time user of OneNote, Microsoft’s note-taking application. OneNote is part of Office Suite and inherits the same taste…
Betty: Transform Everyday English Into Linux Terminal Commands
The world of the Linux terminal might seem daunting at first, likened to needing a Siri for the terminal to simplify tasks. While it’s true that eve…
8 Cool New Features of Mac OS X Yosemite
And that’s it, we have ourselves a new Mac OS X: Mac 10.10 Yosemite. The previous version Mac OS X Mavericks was installed 40 million times, thereby…
Securing macOS With Firmware Password
It’s good to have a password to protect your Mac’s data. However, a skilled thief can still bypass this by booting your Mac in recovery mode and r…
10 Free macOS Tools For Screen Recording
If you’re using the latest macOS, you’d already know about the built-in screen recording feature that comes built-in with the operating system. Ho…
How to Conceal a ZIP File within an Image on a Mac
There are times when you would like to hide sensitive files from prying eyes. You could encrypt them but encryption and decryption takes time and the …
How to Use Dashboard Widgets on Mac Desktop
Dashboard is a feature on your Mac that allows you to add handy single-function widgets like calendars, calculators, and reminders. Normally, these wi…