by Gretchen Heber | Sep 25, 2017 | Mac OS Tips
If you’re over 40, you probably remember the point in The Wizard of Oz where the movie switches from black-and-white to Technicolor (and if not, go see it!). It wasn’t the first color film, but the vibrant images of Dorothy’s ruby slippers, the yellow brick road, and...
by Austin MacWorks | Sep 12, 2017 | Mac OS Tips
Assuming Apple continues its previous practices, once macOS 10.13 High Sierra comes out, it will become impossible to download 10.12 Sierra for the first time. That could be awkward if you want to upgrade an older Mac to Sierra at any point after High Sierra ships,...
by Gretchen Heber | Nov 23, 2014 | Mac OS Tips
Yosemite has a hidden feature that brings up word suggestions when you’re typing up a sentence. Press Esc after typing a word and a list of suggestions will appear. This works on TextEdit and Messages but once will likely roll out to other apps such as Safari...
by Gretchen Heber | Nov 23, 2014 | Mac OS Tips
Have you zapped your PRAM lately? A small amount of your computer’s memory, called “parameter random-access memory” or PRAM (pronounced p-ram), stores certain settings in a location that OS X can access quickly. The particular settings that are stored depend on your...
by Gretchen Heber | Nov 23, 2014 | Mac OS Tips
In Yosemite a detailed view of the free space available in your iCloud account can now be viewed by clicking the iCloud option in System Preferences, and looking at the bottom of the window. Hover the mouse cursor over each block in the bar graph to see a tooltip...
by Gretchen Heber | Sep 7, 2014 | Mac OS Tips
Love this one. When you copy text from some applications, and especially from the web, you tend to also copy its formatting, such as the text size, font choice and so on. When you then paste this into some text fields, such as in an email, it looks out of place, and...
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