Tagged: MacBook

How to show the battery percentage of your Mac

The indicator that displays the exact battery percentage for your Mac system is one of the most useful tools available. It lets you know how long you have left before you need to charge it, and over time, it will let you know whether it’s time to think…

Forgot your Mac password? Here’s what to do

Even with a really great Mac login password and clever password hint, it’s possible to totally forget what it was. At that moment, you could be locked out of your Mac or MacBook. This situation can be particularly frustrating when deadlines approach or…

How to use Notification Center on a Mac

Apple’s MacOS provides notifications that pop up in the upper-right corner of the display. These can be for new email messages, appointment reminders, task reminders, and app-specific notifications. If you don’t respond to a notification immediately, t…

How to use Hot Corners on a Mac

A Mac computer is a versatile device, and one of its biggest productivity boosters is called Hot Corners. This convenient feature is somewhat hidden away in System Preferences, but it’s easy to access and quick to set up when you know where to look.
It…

You’re using your Mac’s dock wrong

The dock in MacOS is a core part of the experience on any Mac. You pin and launch your apps from it, get to the Finder, and you even can pick up apps from your iPhone, too.

But most people never get beyond the default settings, and that’s a shame.&nbs…

These secret Finder settings will vastly improve your Mac

If you own a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or any other Apple device that runs MacOS, then you probably know that the Finder is the core experience. It is the home to navigating your files, apps, and other things that you use on a day-to-day basis.

But di…