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Clean Up and Personalize Your Mac’s Finder Windows

Finder windows make it easy to locate the items you want. With the Applications folder, your Users folder, and the Desktop folder all in one place, you can not only find the things you want quickly, but you can use the Finder to your advantage to help you stay organized. Fortunately, you can persona

Mac Fonts: Where Fonts Are Stored

If you’re just getting familiar with fonts on your Mac, you’ll be surprised to know that there are five places a font can appear. If you plan to work a lot with fonts, it’s important to know where these five folders are.

Clean Up Your Mac: Organize Your Desktop Icons and Maintain your Desktop

Even if you prefer an uncluttered desktop, the ease of accessing things directly from there will almost always lure you back in. The truth is, you’re going to have stuff on your desktop, and at times, it’s going to seem cluttered. You can make it more orderly and easier to maintain simply by setting the desktop’s view options, removing...

Improve Your Mac’s Performance – Optimize the Hard Drive

You can improve your Mac’s performance by disabling unnecessary applications so they don’t use system resources on startup, logging on automatically, and by applying other miscellaneous performance tweaks.

Clean Up Your Mac: The Desktop

In my experience, it only takes a few days to bring disorder to a sparkling, clean desktop on a brand new Mac. If your Mac has been in service for years, your desktop may be a total disaster. Here’s how to take control of your desktop and make it look and feel new again.

Maintain Your Mac: Use System Profiler

Apple’s System Profiler is a tool that gives you a snapshot of your system, the software you have installed, and system resources. It can tell you if your hardware is working, if your new RAM is showing up, the serial number of your Mac, the versions of various software, and more.

Personalize Your Mac: Add Startup Items

If you use the same programs every day, like anti-virus software, Mail, iTunes, and/or iPhoto, add them to Startup Items and have them open automatically.

Maximizing Growl For Mac OS X

Growl for Mac OS X could very well be one of the most essential apps every Mac user should have. It is a customizable system-wide notification app. This article discusses how you can maximize the use of Growl and take advantage of the often overlooked features this great app offers.

File Sharing Between Your Mac and PC

Follow these easy steps to share files between a Mac and PC by creating a local network.