For some years now, your hard drive’s icon no longer shows up by default on your Mac desktop. If you had gotten used to having that icon there, however, you might really miss it. This article will explain how to put your hard disk icon on your desktop; you’ll see how to put other icons, … Read more
I recently sent in my MacBook Pro for a battery replacement, and when I got it back, it kept showing the message “You shut down your computer because of a problem” whenever I would restart it. After doing some research, I could see that many users have had this problem with their Macs running Monterey, … Read more
I use right-click a lot on my Mac. I recently borrowed a friend’s MacBook, and one of the first things I did to make it usable was to enable a right-click for the trackpad. macOS offers a few different options for “right-clicking.” One of them actually involves clicking the right side of the trackpad. The … Read more
Sometimes, you may keep seeing a pop-up message on your Mac saying, “printtool is trying to modify the printer settings.” The message also asks you to enter your user name and password to modify settings. Lastly, this message may seem to appear randomly and intermittently. Sometimes, this message may appear every time you want to … Read more
Occasionally you may want to restart or reset the Dock on your Mac to fix various issues. If your Mac is showing one of the following behaviors, you may need to restart the Dock: The Dock is unresponsive or not showing. Your Mouse or Trackpad is acting bizarre. The Dock is not showing app icons. … Read more
With the release of iOS/iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey, Apple included the Private Relay feature. Private Relay is designed to help protect users’ privacy while they browse the internet and is available to iCloud+ subscribers and works in Safari. Why Private Relay? What does it do? Private Relay separates the information associated with your internet … Read more
You can download full macOS installers from the command line. You may want to do this for a variety of reasons, for example: You may want to create USB boot drive installers. This is a USB flash drive or secondary volume where you can store installer files. Then you can use this as a startup … Read more
When you go to System Preferences > Software Update, you can check to see if there is a new update available for you. However, a common issue is that sometimes Software Update may say, Your Mac is up to date even when you know for sure that there is a big update available. You may … Read more
Did you know that you can make your mouse pointer more visible by changing the color? macOS lets you do this; if you want to have a red, yellow, or green cursor, you can. We have previously written about making the mouse pointer larger and you may also want to do this, again, to make … Read more
There may be times when you may want to combine the contents of two folders into a single folder. This can be an important step when organizing your folders. Sometimes you may have two different folders that share the same files or items along with their own files and folders. Sometimes two folders may have … Read more