As an experienced Mac user, you know how important Finder is to your daily routine. If you only want to open some images on your Desktop or do something similarly basic, Finder’s speed and simplicity is a benefit. But if you need more powerful tools, Finder doesn’t have much to offer. That’s where the world […]
How to Read Hexadecimal Source Code on macOS
When dealing with unusual files, looking at the actual bits that compose the file can be hugely valuable. If nothing else, you can read the file’s headers and decipher its purpose. Editing hexadecimal code is a complex business, but it can be done with a variety of hex editors in macOS. What is hexadecimal code, […]
Play NES, SNES, and N64 Games on macOS With a Console Emulator
You can play retro games on macOS with an emulator. An emulator imitates a console gaming system, allowing you to play console games on your Mac. With the instructions below, you can play retro games on macOS from NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and a ton more. 1. Get a Console Emulator Emulating a […]
Connect Your Xbox One Controller to Your Mac
The Xbox One controller is one of the finest handheld controllers on the market. It’s a case study in usability and ergonomics. The total lack of major changes over the years is a testament of just how “right” Microsoft made the Xbox controller. No hard edges, everything is in easy rich, comfortable with any hand […]
Why is Your MacBook’s Bluetooth So Unreliable?
My first encounter with Bluetooth on my Mac was a mystifying experience. Whether devices were discovered seemed to be determined by eldritch forces beyond human comprehension. File transfer was hilariously unfinished, despite theroretically existing. The magic of Apple did not seem to extend to this backwater of wireless connectivity, and I shelved it in my […]
Stop Apps From Running at Startup on macOS
One of the easiest ways to slow down your Mac is by overloading on launch applications. After a year or so, you might not even realize what apps are starting in the background. While apps like Spotify jump up front and center when they launch, alerting the user, other apps are happy to chug away […]
Using the Video & Audio Encoder Tools in MacOS
Incorporated in Mac OS X 10.7 and later versions are media encoding capabilities that let you encode and convert video and audio files to a format of your choice on your Mac via the Finder window.
What’s Next For Apple’s Battery Tech?
There’s only so much you can do with lithium batteries. You can tweak the doping, change the chemistry, but in the end, we’ve pretty much tapped out that area of technological progress. If Apple wants to improve their products’ batteries, they’ll be looking at solid state battery technology. What’s a Solid State Battery? The big […]
How to Save Time with Siri Shortcuts
Apple has been trying to bring the power of programming to the average user since nearly the inception of the Mac more than thirty years ago. Their efforts have been hit or miss in terms of popularity, but they’ve finally brought a simple programming interface to iOS in the form of Siri Shortcuts. With proper […]
Quickly Rip DVD to HD Videos with MacX DVD Ripper Pro [Giveaway]
While the DVD might not be the popular format it once was, plenty of users still have them and employ them. But unless you want to throw all your DVDs in the trash, you need a way to preserve your DVD-based content for the future. To accomplish that, you’ll need to get it on to […]
