A MacOS Tahoe upgrade went south on a brand-new machine. The solution to recover is not for the faint of heart. If your Mac Studio is bricked, a DFU Revive/Restore is necessary. Earlier this month, I ...

With macOS Tahoe 26 and newer, you can change and customize the color of your folders as seen within the Finder. This is a fun way to customize the look and feel of using your Mac, and yet it’s simple ...

Hide icons in the settings, then shrink the space between icons. The Mac menu bar is a bit of a mess. Way too many applications want to put icons in the top-right corner of the screen, and most users ...

Macworld reports that Apple’s December iPadOS 26.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.2 updates secretly doubled Wi-Fi speeds for compatible devices. The free updates enable 160MHz channel bandwidth on 5GHz networks ...

With the new Voice Typing Dictation feature, users can now speak naturally and have Speechify’s new Mac app turn that recording into clean text across any app on macOS. Here’s how it works. Apple ...

macOS Monterey version 12 is a stable, lightweight upgrade that works great on older Macs, and you can use the direct DMG or ISO links to download, install, upgrade, or downgrade your system easily.

In various ways, this year’s Apple operating system updates (iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and so on) represented a major departure from the past, from the new version numbering system to the radical ...

Spotlight on the Mac is a universal search bar, available everywhere, ready to quickly launch an app or find a file. And in macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple supercharged Spotlight by adding many advanced ...

In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design ...

To connect your OnePlus (or even Oppo or Vivo) phone to a Mac using O+ Connect, download the O+ Connect app, install it on your Mac, and ensure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is ...

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