Tag: OS X

10 Hidden-Gem Games For Your Mac

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Mac games writer Ric Molina. Visit MacGamerHQ for more of his work. We may be well into fall now,...
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Tip: See How Your Site Looks On Other Devices With Safari’s Responsive Design Mode

More and more Web designers are building websites to be “responsive”—that is, they’ll adapt to show content in a format that’s most appropriate for whatever...
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Gatekeeper Bypassed, Be Careful What You Download. 

Turns out, Gatekeeper isn’t minding the store as well as previously thought. Mac Rumors is reporting on a new exploit that may allow rouge rogue applications to...
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How To Change Safari Reader’s Appearance In El Capitan

Safari’s Reader mode is a handy feature that makes it easier to focus on the contents of an article by stripping away everything but the body...
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News Roundup 6/16: OS X, Apple Music Deals, And Bad News Lane

We’re starting to get some early reports of what it’s like to actually use the new version of OS X. This is probably going to...
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Tuesday Tip: Add A Dock Item For Recently Used Apps And Documents

I’m a pretty heavy dock user on OS X. I have my Applications, Documents, and Download folders pinned to the right side of the dock....
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WWDC Wrap: Apple Music, OS X El Capitan, and iOS 9 Take Center Stage

The WWDC 2015 keynote has come and gone, and with it came a slew of software announcements from Apple. If you missed it, save yourself two...
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Hands On: Tweetbot 2 For Mac Is A Slick-Looking Twitter App

I’m a long-time user of Tweetbot on the iPhone—I switched over not long after Twitter bought Tweetie and rendered it unrecognizable—and I’m a big fan....
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News Roundup for Wednesday, May 27

Welcome to the first edition of the Macgasm News Roundup: This is our new feature that rounds up the daily Apple news with zero rumors...
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Tuesday Tip: Save Finder Items To The Dock With A Keyboard Shortcut

I don’t keep a lot of things on my desktop, but I do litter my dock with folders. Prior to the release of Launchpad, I always...
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OS X and iOS Updated With Photos, Emoji And Bug Fixes

The long awaited Photos relaxed for the Mac yesterday, it will install along with 10.3.3. You can now move your photos over to iCloud, or find...
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Flexibits Reinvents Fantastical For Mac, Makes It A Full-Fledged Calendar App

Flexibits’s Fantastical has long since been an essential add-on for me—its menu bar calendar quickly becomes indispensable. The menu bar add-on is still there in...
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Get to Work: Use Email Filters To Save Time

We all get a lot of email, and not all of it worth your time. While it may seem trivial to go through your inbox and...
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OS X and iOS Top The NVD’s List Of Vulnerabilities For 2014

Apple leads on a lot of lists these days, but the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is not one they were looking to top. Both OS...
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Worth Reading: Dan Moren On ‘Notification Pane Pain’

Proper notification systems for iOS and OS X were welcome additions when they arrived in iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion, respectively, but Notification...
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SNL, Sunrise, Volotic, Bloglovin’, And ESPN Are Our Apps Of The Week

This week’s app roundup features a good mix of entertainment and productivity. First up, we have an app from an iconic sketch comedy show. We’ll...
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Tuesday* Tips: Find The Right App To Open A File Using The App Store

If you’ve owned a Mac for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered files that none of your installed applications can open. If you’re running...
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Apple’s ‘Photos’ For OS X Will Arrive This Spring; Developers Get A Sneak Peek Now

Remember Apple’s Photos app for OS X? It made a brief appearance at WWDC and at the time, Apple stated it would come out in early...
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