OS X Yosemite

When I bought the WD My Passport Ultra drive, I was surprised to see that it didn’t support OS X out of the box. Yes, it had some software specifically made for OS X on it, but even that didn’t help. Turns out, it just wasn’t in the right forma

If you store anything on your Mac that’s even remotely important – your photos, documents, anything, you need to back it up. Sure, you can use Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive or Backblaze but one of the simplest options is built right into OS X. Itâ€

If you’re looking for an authentic Windows experience on a Mac, Boot Camp is the only way to go. Yes, you can use a VM like VirtualBox or Parallels but now you’re just running Windows.. in a window. When you Boot Camp, you create a separate parti

With Yosemite, Apple delivered not only the most radical change to OS X, but it also provided countless new features, many of which still remain unknown to most Mac users. Here, we detail four of them. Read along to learn how to take virtua

With the new Dark Mode introduced in OS X Yosemite, Apple gained a lot of fans of this new feature, even if many of the elements of the Finder still don’t adopt this new look when the feature is enabled (like the Finder windows, for example). But e

While iPhoto has been the go-to app for Mac users to manage their photos for several years, the application didn’t evolve much and has become quite complex for the requirements of most users nowadays. Apple noticed this and released Photos for

One of the aspects that stands out about Macs is how customizable they can be, allowing for copious amounts of tailoring and personalization. Among the different aspects of OS X Yosemite that you can customize, the Icon View is perhaps the

I’m sure there are hundreds of unorganized files on your Mac right now. Pictures from your vacation, PDF documents, downloads, TV episodes, and that doesn’t begin to cover it. The first step to organizing content is giving it a proper name, defin

Image via ShutterstockCopy and paste is essential to life. Either copying text from Wikipedia and pasting it in your research paper or copying lines of text from Office documents and merging them in a different document. If you work with text, copy a

On a Windows PC, the desktop is usually filled with shortcuts to apps, pre-installed bloatware that you didn’t ask for and a lot of other stuff. And if you’ve been using Windows 8, it’s the same on the Start screen. There’s none of that

If you’re coming from Windows, you’re probably used to different partitions (one for the main Windows install, another for bigger files and folders etc).

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iTunesOh man, iTunes is one behemoth of an app. We could probably do a whole ultimate guide on it (alternative title: 366 ways of doing the same thing in iTunes). But we won’t.

Keyboard ShortcutsBelow, you’ll find a detailed list of more than 40 keyboard shortcuts that we think are the absolute must-know for any Mac user. We’ve carefully curated them from 100s of keyboard shortcuts available for the Mac.

With computers, as in life, shit happens. And when it does, nothing is more comforting than knowing that all those precious photos of your kids, the important work documents, the tax returns etc are safely backed up. In his OS X 10.5 Leopard rev

Facebook is the new Orkut and Facebook Messenger is the new GTalk. It’s how most of your friends, if not you, like to communicate. A lot of people hate that Facebook Messenger on Android and iOS was split from the main app and that you can no

Along with the flamboyant looks, OS X Yosemite saw a major change in the system font. OS X switched from Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue, the same font that’s on iOS. While Helvetica looks great on my Retina MacBook, it really wasn’t made for low

So long and farewell Mr. Dashboard, we loved you. Well, we still kind of do, and you’re still kind of here but it’s increasingly becoming clear that the word widget in OS X land will soon default to Notification Center wi

Notification Center in OS X Yosemite, just like iOS 8, got widget support. Veteran Mac users will instantly laugh it off. They’ve had widgets in the Dashboard for a good decade now. But Dashboard widgets are ugly and completely dependent on web lan

Spotlight Search is one of the best things about OS X and with Yosemite it got even better. It can do calculations, conversions and even look up movie information for you. But it’s best used to find and launch obscure files and folders instead of l