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Your Mac's Dictionary Is More Than Definitions: Here's What You Can Search
During the course of using your Mac, you've no doubt probably used the Dictionary application from time to time to look up a word, but did you know that the Apple Dictionary extends far beyond the Oxford English experience?The Apple Dictionary is sort of a jack-of-all-trades compendium of verbiage.
Add Blank Spaces to Your macOS's Dock to Better Organize Apps
If you've been using your Mac for a while, you've probably accumulated a lot of shortcuts in your Dock, which can make finding things difficult.
Quick Tip: You Can Move and Rename macOS Documents from the Title Bar
If you've been using a Mac since OS X Mountain Lion, you might have noticed that some documents can be renamed directly from the title bar.
How to Use Signatures in Apple Mail on Your iPhone or iPad
If you use an iPhone or iPad to email important clients, friends, and relatives, then you probably want to try to minimize as much unnecessary typing as possible.
How to Customize Mission Control on a Mac
Apple's Mission Control gives you a good view of all your open windows, desktops, full-screen apps, and apps in split view, and lets you seamlessly switch between them.
How to Get Notifications for Any Facebook Post Without Commenting On It
Have you ever noticed people writing "following" in the comments of a Facebook post? They do this so they can get notifications when the post updates, but there's a much easier and more efficient way to do this--and it's built right into Facebook.
How to Adjust Your Mac's Volume in Smaller Increments
If you adjust the volume, brightness, or keyboard backlight on your Mac, it changes in one of sixteen stepped increments.
How to Control Your Mac From Your iPhone or iPad
Need to adjust something on your Mac, but it's all the way on the other side of the house? You don't need to get off the couch: your Mac's built-in screen sharing works great with your iPhone or iPad, and it's a snap to set up.
How to Get a One-Click Summary of Long-Winded Documents on macOS
Are you verbose and protracted? Do you have a friend who's just a bit too long-winded and rambling in their writings? Summarizing long documents on macOS is a concise way to get to the point with a minimum of time and effort.
Quiet Loud Noises in Your Apple TV Movies with this Settings Tweak
Face it: your late-night Jason Bourne binges may make your heart race, but it's probably bothering your sleeping neighbors.
How to Create and Modify Signatures in Apple Mail on macOS
Among Apple Mail's many and varied features is the ability to define and set signatures so that your email is appended with your favorite quote, out-of-office announcements, or contact information.
How to Erase Your iOS Device After Too Many Failed Passcode Attempts
When someone tries to access your iPhone or iPad by guessing the passcode, it will initially lock them out, increasing each interval with each failed attempt.
How to Create Time-Saving "Hot Corner" Shortcuts on Your Mac
Hot Corners are one of macOS's unheralded features.
How to Switch to Dvorak (and Other Keyboard Layouts) on Your Computer or Phone
The so-called QWERTY keyboard layout--the keyboard most of us use every day--is a typing mainstay.
How to Turn Off Contact and Event Suggestions in Apple Mail
Apple Mail can suggest calendar events for you based on dates and times it scans in your messages.
How to Hold Command+Q to "Slow Quit" Apps in macOS
To quit an app on a Mac, you can just press Command+Q on your keyboard.
How to Customize or Disable Sound Effects in macOS
Your Mac comes with a unique set of sound effects that you can assign as the default system alert.
How to Customize Your Mac's Dock and Add Themes with cDock
OS X lacks little in aesthetic appeal, but sometimes you just want to change it up.
How to Use Your iPhone's Personal Hotspot to Tether a PC or Mac
If you're out and about and there's no free Wi-Fi available, you can use your iPhone's internet connection on another device, like a laptop or tablet.
How to Enable and Configure Screen Savers on a Mac
Do you still use screen savers on your personal computer? Screen savers aren't as as necessary as they once were, but if you like the look--or use them for useful things like a "word of the day"--macOS still has quite a few you can set up and configure.