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How To Tell What Apps Are Running On Your Mac

Last updated on February 4, 2020 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Running apps on Mac

This article explains how you can view all running applications in macOS. There are a few different methods to see all apps or programs that are running on your Mac. This article lists the methods. When your Mac is running slow or sluggishly or freezing, you may want to close some open apps to speed up your […]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Apps, Mac, macOS

How to Deauthorize Your Mac

Last updated on December 12, 2019 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

You can only authorize 5 computers

The iTunes Store on iOS allows you to buy and download songs, TV shows, movies, and podcasts. You can give your Mac permission to access your content. You can only authorize up to 5 computers to sync or play your content with a specific Apple ID. Unless you authorize your computer; your apps, audiobooks, books, music, […]

Filed Under: How to Tagged With: iTunes, Mac

The Finder Can’t Quit Because An Operation Is Still In Progress On An iOS Device

Last updated on December 10, 2019 By Serhat Kurt 11 Comments

The Finder can't quit

Do you see the following message when you want to restart or turn off your Mac? This article explains how you can fix when you are unable to turn off and the Mac displays the “The Finder can’t quit because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device” error message. If the Finder […]

Filed Under: How to Tagged With: Finder, Mac

The Operation Couldn’t Be Completed. (BKAgentServiceErrorDomain Error 8.); Fix

Last updated on November 26, 2019 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Books on Mac error

You can easily purchase, download and read books and PDF files in Books, also known as iBooks, on your Mac. Several users have reported that they are unable to open and read ebooks in the Books app on the Mac. Furthermore, users have said that they receive the following error message: The operation couldn’t be […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: Books, Mac, macOS

Mac Keeps Freezing? How To Fix

Last updated on November 15, 2019 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Force quit apps

Does your Mac keep freezing and stop responding, randomly and unexpectedly? There can be a number of reasons that can cause your Mac to become unresponsive to any user input from the keyboard or mouse or to freeze altogether. By freezing, it is meant that nothing happens. Sometimes you may start having this problem after updating […]

Filed Under: Guides Tagged With: crash, Freeze, Mac

Update Apple ID Settings (macOS Catalina), Fix

Last updated on October 8, 2019 By Serhat Kurt 18 Comments

Several users have reported that an alert message saying “Update AppleID Settings” keeps appearing in Settings after upgrading to macOS Catalina. Furthermore, it seems that the message won’t go away and it just keeps asking users to update Apple ID settings on Mac, no matter what users do. Sometimes a Mac may get into a loop of […]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Catalina, Mac, macOS

How To Protect Your Mac

Last updated on September 26, 2019 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

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Yesterday, we published an article about viruses and other malware. Topic of this article is similar. This article includes tips and tricks to help you make your computer use more secure while you are connected to the Internet or a network. Use secure passwords Make sure that you are using secure passwords that can’t be easily […]

Filed Under: How to Tagged With: Mac, macOS, Secure

How To Prevent Viruses And Other Malware On Your Mac

Last updated on September 25, 2019 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Mac Firewall

A computer virus may interfere with your Mac’s performance and health by corrupting or destroying data on your Mac. A virus can have profound and damaging effects. They are annoying, time consuming, and very frustrating. This short article explains how you can protect your Mac from viruses and other malware. Even thought the terms “virus” and “malware” are […]

Filed Under: How to Tagged With: Mac, malware, Virus

How To Reduce Bandwidth Usage On Your Mac

Last updated on May 18, 2019 By Serhat Kurt 1 Comment

Content Cache

Do you want to cut down your Internet data usage? If so this article is for you. This article explains a few simple yet effective tips to reduce bandwidth usage on your Mac. In order to be able to use some tips explained here, your Mac should be running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later. […]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Mac, macOS

macOS Messages Freezes or Crashes, Fix

Last updated on April 20, 2019 By Serhat Kurt 2 Comments

Messages app

Is the Messages app crashing or freezing unexpectedly on your Mac? There’s nothing more annoying than having the Messages app crash on you when you are sending messages. Sometimes you may receive “an unexpected error message” or “an internal Messages error occured”. This problem is important because it will prevent you from sending or receiving […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: Mac, macOS, Messages

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