Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products
On Your Marks . . . Improving Your Mac's Start Up Speed
3 minute read
How does your Mac cope with start up. Check out how Launch Items can influence the performance of your machine at this critical speed bottleneck.
MacOS makes it easy to add items to a list that will launch at start-up. This can be very useful for applications that you always use, servers that you wish to connect to, or even a file or document you always want to work on. Once the OS has loaded it moves onto your user account and the items on this list and launches them ready for your use once your account is fully loaded.
Leveraging Smart Folders On MacOS
2 minute read
Delve into the world of Smart folders and find files you forgot even existed, let alone where they were located on your system.
The finder makes it very easy to look at your files. Sometimes, though, you want to find a file that is of a particular type that was created on a particular day and has a tag applied. Unless you are very very well organised the likelihood of finding the file that matches that particular combination of criteria is most unlikely. Well this is exactly where Smart Folders come in.
The Amazing Option Key On MacOS
1 minute read
The hidden power of the option key in MacOS.
The option key is an often ignored key on the Apple keyboard. This is partly because it gets labelled many different things (Option, alt and ⌥), but also because people donât realise quite how useful it can be.
Unleash Your Mac Shortcut Potential
3 minute read
More shortcuts that are useful in everyday Mac use. Check them out and accelerate your ability to interact with your Mac.
The more that you get used to using shortcuts, when interacting with your Mac, the more you'll crave the ability to use even more. Well Mac OS obliges and there are many, many more useful shortcuts available to you that can help to keep your hands on they keyboard for speed and efficiency.
Demystifying iCloud
6 minute read
Just what is iCloud and what can I expect it to do for me?
iCloud, the collection of internet services suppled by Apple, can be confusing to understand. In this article we seek to dispel the misconceptions and outline just exactly what it is and what it isn't.
Organisational Methods to Boost Efficiency in MacOS
3 minute read
The MacOS has many features that help you to keep organised and keeping organised helps you to be efficient and productive.
The Mac has lots of little features built in to help boost your productivity, many of these help you with the organisation of your files. Although being organised isn't essential for using your computer, having logical routines certainly help with keeping you sane when you can't find the presentation you have been working on for the last few days, minutes before you have to show it! Below are several helpful tips to get you on track with being as efficient as possible.
How A Tidy Desktop Improves Your Mac's Performance
4 minute read
The pursuit of the clean Desktop and it's impact on the performance of your Mac.
Many people use there desktop as their filling system. Everything goes there; downloads from the web, the presentation for work, their CV, and the new set of photos from their recent trip to the Greek islands.
Spotlight On Spotlight
3 minute read
Spotlight is so much more then just a system wide search. Read on to find out just how flexible and useful it can be.
Spotlight is the system wide search functionality built into MacOS. It allows you to search for any document, folder or application on your system as well as giving you suggested web pages, videos online, dictionary definitions etc for your search terms. It's supper flexible and fast allowing you to easily find what you are looking for.