Mac Quick Tips

If you find yourself accidentally launching your screen saver by moving your cursor to an active screen corner, we’ll show you how to avoid it by customizing a setting in System Preferences.

In this tip, we’ll show you how to turn on and set up Junk Mail filtering in Mail.

Quick Look not only allows you to preview files without opening the associated application, you can also use it to view a fullscreen slideshow of images.

Mac OS X can automatically check your spelling as you type. If you’d like to train the built-in dictionary with proper names or company names, we’ll show you how in this tip.

It’s easy to customize the items in your dock, just drag and drop them. In this tip, we’ll show you how to keep an app in your dock that’s currently running.

If you have a series of applications that you launch at the start of your workday, you may wish to have them launch when you log on to your Mac. In this tip, we’ll show you how.

In Finder windows, longer filenames are shortened to preserve the formatting of the view on your screen.  If you'd like to view the entire filename, we'll show you some tricks to allow you to see the file names in their entirety, helping to distinguish files from one another.

If you receive a link to a movie file in an email massage, when you click to view it Safari may open up and start playing the movie for you. If you’d like to download the movie instead, we’ll show you how to do just that in this tip.

Instead of copying a pasting a URL from your browser to Mail to send to a colleague, in this tip we’ll show you how to send the information right from within your browser.

If you’d like to conserve energy by putting your display to sleep, in this tip we’ll show you how you can quickly achieve that using an active screen corner.

Here are a series of tips to help you make sure your Mac is secure.

If you’d like to access the Get Info panel for multiple files, we’ll show an easy way to view this information, without launching a window for each file.

Have you ever tried to open a file that was located in the Trash? Chances are you’ve seen the prompt which asks you to move the file out of the trash first. In this tip, we’ll show you how to quickly view the contents of fles in your trash, without restoring them.

Save yourself some time in filing your email by setting up some rules in Mail to do the sorting for you.

In this tip, we’ll show you to do an advanced search in a Finder window.