by Marilyn | May 7, 2021 | Article, Desktop, Explainer, Launchpad, Lock screen, Mac, Mission Control, Notification Center, pointer, screen saver
Nine Reasons to Put Your Mac’s Pointer in a Corner If your Mac is like ours, it’s a busy place, with oodles of open windows and lots of icons lying around. If you want to display the Desktop or see a single app’s windows, you may find yourself clicking around or using... 
by Marilyn | May 5, 2021 | Article, Desktop, Do Not Disturb, How-To, Notification Center, privacy, videoconferencing
Along with the now-ubiquitous videoconferencing, screen sharing and online presentations have become vastly more common during the pandemic. This isn’t yet another article about how to give a better presentation or feel more confident. (Although those might happen... 
by Marilyn | Oct 24, 2019 | backup, Desktop, iCloud, iMac, iMac Pro, iMessage, iTunes, Mac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, macfusion, macOS
Are you finally ready to upgrade to that new Mac you’ve had your eye on!? We are happy to take your Mac for a trade in, but before doing so, here’s how you can get your computer ready for it’s new life. 1. Back It Up Before anything else, you should... 
by Marilyn | Dec 5, 2018 | Apple Pros, Article, Desktop, Finder, Mac, Mojave, productivity, Stacks
There are three types of people in this world: those who keep their Mac Desktop organized, those who don’t and don’t care, and those who don’t but wish they could. If you’re sitting on the Group #3 bench–you have oodles of icons scattered willy-nilly`around your... 
by Marilyn | Oct 17, 2018 | Desktop, Finder, Mac, Mission Control, productivity, Tip
If your Mac is anything like ours, you end up with lots of apps open, each with one or more windows that obscure the Desktop. For those people who like to save in-progress documents to the Desktop and keep current project folders there, all those windows get in the... 
by Marilyn | Oct 17, 2018 | customization, Desktop, Force Touch Trackpad, Mac, Mission Control, Photos, productivity, Safari, Solution, trackpad
A trackpad is not a mouse. In some ways, that’s obvious—you swipe your fingers on it, rather than dragging it around. Less obvious, however, are the many gestures that make using a trackpad on your Mac faster and more fun. These gestures aren’t limited to laptop...