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OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems developed by Apple, Inc. The first public beta, called Kodiak, appeared in 2000. Though OS X has gone through many design iterations since its launch, its philosophies have always focused on simplicity and user experience.
Every time I go to empty my Mac’s trash, I have to click yet another dialog box to confirm. I find this a tad annoying, but thankfully this is an option we can control.
I have a pair of wireless bluetooth headphones that states the name of the device it’s connecting to — and with a long or unrecognizable name, this is quite annoying.
By default, MacOS and OSX will offer to share your Chrome tabs between your Mac and iOS devices via iCloud sharing.
Sometimes Android Studio gets corrupted, and when you try to compile your Android application (or launch a virtual device), everything goes haywire.
Apple really, really wants you to download apps from the App Store so they’ve made it difficult to download applications from unidentified developers.
Using an application of terminal command and you’re not sure if it’s stuck? Want to monitor network usage from the computers on your network? There’s a built-in program for that.
Want to minimize an application by double-clicking its title bar? Here’s how to do it.
This short guide will show you how to change you default shell on unix based operating systems.
As someone who uses OS X dashboard widgets often, I was dismayed to find out that Apple has hidden it by default. Thankfully, it’s easy to reenable the dashboard in El Capitan. Here’s how to do it.
By default, the cursor in MacOS and OS X gets really big when you shake the mouse or when you move it too quickly.
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Every time I go to empty my Mac’s trash, I have to click yet another dialog box to confirm. I find this a tad annoying, but thankfully this is an option we can control.
I have a pair of wireless bluetooth headphones that states the name of the device it’s connecting to — and with a long or unrecognizable name, this is quite annoying.
By default, MacOS and OSX will offer to share your Chrome tabs between your Mac and iOS devices via iCloud sharing.
Sometimes Android Studio gets corrupted, and when you try to compile your Android application (or launch a virtual device), everything goes haywire.
Apple really, really wants you to download apps from the App Store so they’ve made it difficult to download applications from unidentified developers.
Using an application of terminal command and you’re not sure if it’s stuck? Want to monitor network usage from the computers on your network? There’s a built-in program for that.
Want to minimize an application by double-clicking its title bar? Here’s how to do it.
This short guide will show you how to change you default shell on unix based operating systems.
As someone who uses OS X dashboard widgets often, I was dismayed to find out that Apple has hidden it by default. Thankfully, it’s easy to reenable the dashboard in El Capitan. Here’s how to do it.
By default, the cursor in MacOS and OS X gets really big when you shake the mouse or when you move it too quickly.
Rather than printing, signing, and scanning a document, you can actually save time and sign the document right in Preview.
This guide will teach you how to remove the annoying Adobe Updater bar from the menu bar in MacOS and OS X.
There are a few different methods for deleting an application based on how you installed it.
On OS X, some apps can be deleted using an uninstaller that came with the application.
This guide will teach you how to quickly delete an application from your Mac that was downloaded from the Mac App Store. This method uses Launchpad.
Many applications use multiple windows, and there is a handy keyboard shortcut to help you switch quickly between them.
This guide will show you how to auto-hide your dock using a keyboard shortcut – without having to open up System Preferences.
There are plenty of websites that will automatically convert a video into a gif. Some of these sites even have a few options to customize the gif you create.
If you’re using a Mac and you’ve found yourself in a place where every Finder window is opening up with a different set of view options (that is icons, list, columns or Cover Flow), there’s a way to quickly remedy this.
This guide shows you how to change the HipChat notification sound in both Mac and Windows. Presently, the notification sound cannot be changed through either native application.
I recently upgraded to Yosemite, which allows you to send and receive iMessages, or Messages, from your computer, rather than your phone.
This short guide shows you various ways to find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
This guide was written for OS X 10.9. For an updated version of this guide click here. There are plenty of reasons you will want to encrypt files on your personal computer.
This short guide will teach you how to take a screenshot on your Mac. These instructions are the same whether you have OS X or macOS.
This short guide shows you how to disable the additional Mac menubars/toolbars and docks that were added in OS X Mavericks.
This shortcut takes your cursor directly to the searchbox after opening Mail.app. This works in all current versions of OSX.
There’s no obvious way to view chat transcripts for conversations you’ve had with users who are now offline. Here’s how to do it.
You can set up your Apple computer so that when you double-click the menu bar it minimizes the application. This is a huge time saver and is OS X does not do this by default.
This short guide will show you how to enable php.ini on Mac OS X 10.8.X.
This guide explains how to securely empty your Mac’s trash can. This function overwrites the old data on your hard drive with a bunch of 0s, making it harder to recover.
When I turned my computer on this morning, it seems that the menu bar was blocking me from dragging a Google Chrome window from my laptop display to my external display.
When I’m coding, I love to watch the occasional X-Files or Futurama episode on my external monitor while I work.
Most Apple users don’t know that the Mac keeps a record of every file that you’ve ever downloaded. Here’s how to view the record, delete it, and disable the feature entirely.
I hooked up my external monitor today and found that its desktop background had been replacement by a grey image.
As a web designer, I often find myself with a dozen or two Finder windows open after getting lost in a haze of code.
TotalFinder is a great alternative to Mac OS X’s default Finder application. It adds a number of features such as window tabbing.
You may want to create a new iTunes library folder for many different reasons.
The default empty trash function in OS X isn’t very secure.
Transmit is my FTP/SFTP client of choice. By default, Transmit hides hidden/invisible/system files.
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