How-To

Wireless networks are brilliant - when they work. Mostly they do work perfectly well, but there are occasions where something isn't right and you have a poor connection or none at all. What can you do?

Automator is a sort of programming tool that enables you to create utility apps on the Apple Mac but it does not require any programming knowledge. This guide takes you step by step through your first app.

Do you have the status bar at the bottom of Safari's browser window visible? It shows useful information like the destination of links. Use it to see how keys modify the action of clicking them.

If you want to keep your email account junk free and avoid giving it out to websites and services, create an alias. Here’s how to create an iCloud Mail alias to avoid spam and junk mail.

You may think that your Mac is easy to use, but what if you could make it even easier? Use these macOS settings and features to simplify your Mac and make it faster and easier to use.

The PDF format is one of the most popular file formats in use today. You can utilize it for a wide variety of purposes such as documents, project reports, school assignments, bank statements, images, research papers, etc.

Sometimes you don't want to be disturbed by emails, such as on a trip or holiday, but constant emails can spoil it. Create an auto-responder in the Mail app to send automated replies.

The keyboard on recent MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops has had an unusually high number of failures and some users are angry. What can you do to avoid problems and how can they be fixed?

Text expanders are very useful tools for people that spend a lot of time on their Mac typing the same words and phrases in emails and documents. PhraseExpress is a great time saver.

When online storage is mentioned the companies that spring to mind are Microsoft, Google and Dropbox, but there are others and Box for example, has 41 million users. Here's how to join them.

Apple can be very slow to add obvious features sometimes, but at last, one I have wanted for years has been added to Safari and you can now sort your website bookmarks!

The Apple Mac has a comprehensive set of commands that can be accessed from a Terminal command prompt and you can even update the system and apps with them using the software update command.

Have some fun on your Apple Mac by creating custom folders for your files with different colours, text or even emoji characters. This step by step guide shows exactly how to do it.

You can do a lot more than enter a filename when saving a file or opening one on the Apple Mac. There are hidden features that you may not have discovered and functions you didn’t know existed.

In some ways Spotlight is a great search tool in macOS and it helps you to find files, apps, folders, and bookmarks, but in some ways, it is poor. EasyFind is a more powerful search tool.

It is not exactly a fault and some might call it a feature, but it's still very irritating and if you use USB thumb drives (flash drives) you will have discovered it. They run out of space.

The Calendar app on the Apple Mac can be used to access calendars on iCloud or stored locally on the disk. There are pros and cons of each type of calendar. Let's take a look at the differences.

Do you have photos stored in your Apple Photos library that you would rather not see or don't want others to see? How can you hide them without actually removing them from Photos? Here's how.

There are junk files and folders cluttering up your iCloud storage and they may be using valuable space. However, they are hidden and are not obvious. Let's see how to make them visible and to remove them.

If you use iCloud Drive to store files and need to access them quickly there are several ways to make it slightly easier and a tiny bit quicker. Add quick access icons to Finder and Dock.