Mac OS Tricks Archives

Consider Moving Your Mac’s Dock to the Side of the Screen

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For most of us, our Mac’s screen is wider than it is tall, so longer Web pages and documents often benefit from more room from top to bottom. To maximize […]

Sidestep MacBook Optimized Battery Charging When Necessary

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Have you ever run into a situation where the battery icon in your menu bar is stuck at 80% even though your Mac has been plugged in for hours? Luckily, […]

How to Turn Mail’s Rich Website Previews into Plain Links

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Sometimes apps can be too helpful. Apple’s Mail on the Mac likes to turn pasted URLs into graphically rich previews, and sometimes that’s OK. But other times, the preview is […]

Need to Back Up or Export a Messages Conversation? Try PDF or iMazing

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Occasionally, we hear from a client who needs to document a Messages conversation with timestamps, perhaps as part of a lawsuit. The only way to do that on an iPhone […]

Quickly Put Lots of Files in a Folder with One Command

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Imagine that you’re working with a bunch of files, and you want to put a set of them in a new folder. You could stop what you’re doing, make a […]

Manage Email Faster in Mail by Swiping

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We all get too much email, and while Mail can’t help you get less (other than by making it easy to unsubscribe from mailing lists), it does provide shortcuts for […]

Get Some Color (On Your Mac) This Summer with the Color Picker

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If you’re over 40, you probably remember the point in The Wizard of Oz where the movie switches from black-and-white to Technicolor (and if not, go see it!). It wasn’t […]

Picking Group Meeting Times Is Easy with Crab Fit

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Various calendar services let you schedule a meeting based on invited attendees picking preferred times from a set of specified options—Doodle is the most well-known. But the problem with such […]

Do You Keep Losing Your Pointer on a Large Screen? Try This Tip for Finding It

A large screen—or several screens!—increases productivity by helping you see more content at once. It’s a big help to refer to a Web page in one window while writing in […]

Copy and Paste between Your Apple Devices with Universal Clipboard

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Everyone is accustomed to using the Copy and Paste commands on the Mac, but fewer people know that you can also copy and paste between your Mac and your iPhone […]

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