31 Days Of OS X Tips: Change Which App Opens A File
There are plenty of reasons why you might want to open a file in an app other than the default choice. Maybe you want to...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Unhide Apps In The Mac App Store
On Monday, I showed you how to hide your purchases in the Mac App Store. And, well, you may have gotten a little overzealous and ended...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Remove Reference Sources From The Dictionary App
OS X’s Dictionary app can be an invaluable reference tool. It also comes with a lot of foreign-language dictionaries that I’ll likely never have occasion...
31 Days of Mac OS X Tips: Hide Your Mac App Store Purchases
I review a lot of apps, so my Purchased list in the Mac App Store is pretty long. As you might guess, trying to find that...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Show Tags As Stacks In The Dock
Introduced in OS X Mavericks, tags are a useful way to organize files based on assigned keywords. Now, typically, you’d have to go through the...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Convert Meters To Feet Using Spotlight
In our modern, mostly-metric-unless-you-live-in-the-US world, unit conversions are a part of life. Inches to centimeters. Pounds to kilograms. Dollars to Euros. With Yosemite, you can...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Remove Words From Your User Dictionary
If you’re not careful, you can accidentally click Add to Dictionary when running OS X’s built-in spell checker. You then have to contend with a...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Show The Path Bar In The Finder And Get A Sense Of Place
Many old-school Mac users know that you can view a currently open folder’s path by command-clicking its name in its window’s titlebar. It’s a useful nugget of information,...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Keep Your Mac From Sleeping Using The Terminal
Caffeine is a useful utility that keeps your Mac awake when activated—useful if you want to prevent your Mac from sleeping so it can carry out...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Lock Your Mac When You Walk Away
[Editor’s Note: December is OS X Tips Month here at Macgasm! All throughout December, we’ll post a new OS X tip each day—covering everything from that...
Tuesday Tips: Easy Ways To Bolster Your Mac’s Physical Security
We tech bloggers spend a lot of time talking about online security—don’t post personal details online, be careful what you click on, use strong passwords, that...
Tuesday Tips: Turn Off Dashboard Altogether In Yosemite
For most of us, it’s probably safe to say that Dashboard on our Macs is a little…forlorn. Sure, you may pop it open once in...
Yosemite Tip: Change Your Default Web Browser Without Ever Opening Safari
In prior versions of OS X, you had to—inexplicably—open Safari to set a different default browser. Yes, other browser vendors like Google and Mozilla included a “set...
Tuesday Tips: 5 Yosemite Finder And Spotlight Tricks For Better File Management
Yosemite comes with a greatly overhauled Spotlight search feature…and a slightly improved Finder. And with each come some new features for getting things done. Get...
Yosemite Tip: Mute Conversations In Messages And Cut The Chat!
I swear; some people are just too chatty. And thanks to Yosemite’s Continuity features, I can get all sorts of SMS messages forwarded to my Mac,...
Yosemite Tip: Master These Safari Settings For Better Browsing
Safari received quite an overhaul in OS X Yosemite—and we’re not just talking about looks. Apple changed many aspects of how the browser behaves, and added a...
Yosemite Tip: How To Get The Old ‘Zoom’ Button Back
Prior to OS X Yosemite, the green zoom/maximize button would expand windows to a larger size in order to accommodate all of its contents. In Yosemite,...
Tuesday Tips: Hide The QuickType Bar In iOS 8
New in iOS 8, the QuickType bar provides word suggestions based on what you’re typing. It’s a handy feature, even though it sometimes comes up...