Mac OS Tricks Archives

Change Your Pointer Color in macOS 12 Monterey

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Some people find it hard to find the mouse pointer at times, particularly on a large screen or when working in Dark Mode or in apps with dark interfaces. You’ve […]

Need to Resize Images in Various Ways? Give Preview a Try

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Even those of us who don’t work with graphics professionally often find ourselves needing to resize images. Perhaps you have a large square headshot, but the site to which you’re […]

The Mac’s Magic Shortcut to Trashing Files and Photos Quickly

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Sure, you could select a file in the Finder and choose File > Move to Trash or drag it to the Trash in the Dock. Similarly, you can trash selected […]

Learn How to Paste Text So Its Style Matches the Surrounding Text

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When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 68-point blue […]

Nine Reasons to Put Your Mac’s Pointer in a Corner

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Nine Reasons to Put Your Mac’s Pointer in a Corner If your Mac is like ours, it’s a busy place, with oodles of open windows and lots of icons lying […]

Not a Fan of Big Sur’s Translucent Menu Bar? Here’s How to Disable It

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In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple went back to a design direction from the earliest days of Mac OS X: a translucent menu bar. Since its color changes depending on […]

Make Better Documents and Edit More Easily with Show Invisibles

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Some of the trickiest editing and proofreading problems are related to characters you can’t typically see on the screen: spaces, tabs, and returns. Just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they […]

Having Trouble Finding Files on Your Mac? Here’s How to Reset Spotlight

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For the most part, Spotlight works well. Press Command-Space or use the Search field in a Finder window, and it finds everything that matches your search term. Sometimes, however, Spotlight […]

Web Ads: Making the Best of a Lose-Lose Scenario

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Typically, we like to help you solve problems in these articles. But there’s one problem we all face that has no good solution: ads on Web pages. Let us explain […]

Manage Your Apple Purchases and Subscriptions on the Mac and iPhone

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Last quarter, Apple’s Services segment generated a whopping $15.8 billion in revenue, 14% of the company’s total—sales of apps, media, and subscriptions are a big deal to Apple. And if […]

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