Tag: yosemite

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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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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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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OS X’s Spotlight Overrides Mail.app Privacy Settings, Could Give Spammers A Leg Up

Spam and marketing emails often contain content—typically images served up from a remote Web server—that make it possible to see if recipients actually opened the message in...
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Flashlight Review: Plugin Collection Lets You Get More Out of Spotlight

With OS X Yosemite, Apple introduced a completely new Spotlight experience. Previously residing on the upper right-hand-side of the OS X menubar, the new Spotlight search pane lives...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: The Complete List

All throughout December, we here at Macgasm have published some of our favorite OS X tips, both basic and advanced. Miss some? No problem. Here’s the complete...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Mute Notifications With A Single Click

Here’s a quick one for you: Did you know you can mute Notification Centers on OS X without even opening Notification Center? While holding down...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Convert PDF Pages To A PNG Or JPEG File

Find yourself needing to export a particular page from a PDF in a format other than PDF? Maybe you want to turn a page into...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Use Screen Saver Images As Desktop Backgrounds

By now, you’re probably familiar with OS X’s built-in slideshow-style screen savers—if you’re not, I suggest you make haste to the Desktop & Screen Saver...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Remove Reference Sources From The Dictionary App

OS X’s Dictionary app can be an invaluable reference tool. It also comes with a lot of foreign-language dictionaries that I’ll likely never have occasion...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Show Tags As Stacks In The Dock

Introduced in OS X Mavericks, tags are a useful way to organize files based on assigned keywords. Now, typically, you’d have to go through the...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Convert Meters To Feet Using Spotlight

In our modern, mostly-metric-unless-you-live-in-the-US world, unit conversions are a part of life. Inches to centimeters. Pounds to kilograms. Dollars to Euros. With Yosemite, you can...
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Worth Trying: Use A Different Font In Messages

iChat Messages in Yosemite is great if you like your conversations in Helvetica. If you don’t, well, you don’t have much of a choice. But TidBITS’ Adam...
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Yosemite Bug: Beware The Ever-Expanding Save Sheet

Jason Snell, my former colleague with IDG and the proprietor of Six Colors, highlighted a funky bug that affects the sheet that slides out when...
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Tuesday Tips: Easy Ways To Bolster Your Mac’s Physical Security

We tech bloggers spend a lot of time talking about online security—don’t post personal details online, be careful what you click on, use strong passwords, that...
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Worth Reading: Why Doesn’t Handoff Work For Music?

Once you start using it, Handoff in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite becomes second nature. But Dan Moren of Six Colors brings up a...
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Not Everyone’s Convinced That OS X 10.10.1 Fixed Yosemite’s Wi-Fi Issues

The OS X 10.10.1 update went live in the App Store on Monday, and according to Apple, the update “improves Wi-Fi reliability.” Presumably, this means it...
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Tuesday Tips: Turn Off Dashboard Altogether In Yosemite

For most of us, it’s probably safe to say that Dashboard on our Macs is a little…forlorn. Sure, you may pop it open once in...
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