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How to work with Mac OS X Colored File Tags?
What you’ve bumped into are “tags” and they’re supposed to help you organize and keep track of files, folders and other data tied to a specific project, person, or other organizational element. As long...
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Change background color in Mac Preview app?
There are a lot of different programs for reading and reviewing PDF documents on a Mac OS X system nowadays, but I’m with you: the Apple Preview program is a winner, simple, elegant and easy to work...
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Best anti-virus software for the Mac?
The best anti-malware / anti-virus software for a Mac OS X system is a hotly contested discussion, and not for the reason you might think if you’re used to working in a Microsoft Windows environment....
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Why you Need to Update your Apple Devices Now
Aren’t Apple devices secure? Well, yes, and no. We are used to hearing that Apple operating systems and software products are pretty secure (although no product can ever be assumed to be 100% secure),...
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How do I add a Signature in Mac PDF Preview?
The PDF Preview program included with Mac OS X does indeed have quite a variety of different capabilities and features that make it a lot more useful than just to view PDF documents. There are a lot of...
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Reviewing PDF documents with Mac Preview?
You’re in luck if you’re using Preview on your Mac system: it has quite a rich set of features for annotating or reviewing PDF documents and quite a few other neat tricks up its sleeve that make it...
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History of Mac OS X release names?
Well, I’m afraid your buddy is correct that not every release of Mac OS X has been named after a cat. Heck, the very latest version is Sierra. Apple ran out of animal names at some point (actually the...
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Increase Disk Size in VMware Fusion?
Unlike a real, physical disk, virtual disks have a really cool capability: you can just make ’em bigger whenever you want! I encountered an issue with upgrading to the preview edition of Windows 10 on...
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How to blur a portion of a graphic on Mac?
Thanks for noticing! I do put a lot of effort into my screen captures to try and convey the critical information while still protecting info that should remain private, like account numbers, credit...
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Enable Siri on MacOS X 10.12 Sierra?
If you’re fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem you already use Siri on your iPhone, though probably not so much on your iPad (based on usage statistics). You might even use it with your Apple Watch,...
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Resize Mac Image Graphic with Preview?
As digital cameras and smartphone cameras have become more and more sophisticated, the images they produce have become bigger too. A typical photo from an iPhone 7, for example, is a huge 4032 x 3024...
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Pair Bluetooth speaker with MacOS X iMac?
Bluetooth technology has come a long way in the last few years and now it’s surprisingly easy to get things to work and connect, whether you’re on an Android phone, a Windows tablet or a MacOS desktop...
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How to Enable Siri on MacOS Sierra?
Well, I asked Siri on my Mac how you can enable Siri on your computer, and unfortunately she didn’t have much to say other than “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.” More seriously, you do definitely...
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How do I Enter a Microsoft Office 365 Product Key?
It used to be simple in software land: You bought a program, installed it and you were done. Then we added product keys because people would buy one copy of a program and install it on dozens of...
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How do I migrate macOS “Stickies” to a new computer?
“Stickies” is a perfect example of an app that should be iCloud enabled, in my opinion. “Notes” is and it’s darn useful to be able to access your iPhone notes on your Mac, and vice versa, but for some...
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Bluetooth headphones on MacBook Air too quiet?
Congrats on the migration to the more powerful MacBook Pro system. Lots to really like about the new computer, including of course some new circuitry and capabilities, as well as – hopefully! – a...
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How do I customize the MacBook Pro TouchBar?
Congrats on your purchase, but while in some spots Apple refers to the tiny touch screen on your new keyboard as a TouchBar, in other places it refers to it as a Control Strip, so I’m not 100% sure...
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Add a webcam camera to a VMWare Fusion virtual machine?
There are two excellent solutions for people who want to run different operating systems within the macOS world: Parallels and VMWare Fusion. I’ve used both and personally am now a big fan of Fusion,...
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How do I Turn off Chrome Notifications?
Sure sounds like you’ve enabled what’s known as Google Chrome “Push” Notifications, a technology that lets Web sites to which you’ve granted permission the ability to pop up little notification windows...
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What’s Eating Up All My Mac Disk Space?
With the rise of cloud storage, you’d think that your computer could automatically just push files you haven’t used for a while into the cloud and make sure that whatever you have locally on your hard...
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