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Make Your Finder Window Columns the Right Size

Make Your Finder Window Columns the Right Size

by Marilyn | Oct 30, 2020 | customization, Finder, Mac, Tip

We’re big fans of column view in Finder windows (choose View > as Columns). You never have to worry about missing icons that are outside the window, everything is sorted alphabetically, and selecting a file shows a preview. But the column widths can be too thin,...
Personalize Your Mac with Custom Document Icons

Personalize Your Mac with Custom Document Icons

by Marilyn | Sep 9, 2019 | customization, Finder, Mac, Tip

Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you’d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it’s still possible in modern versions of macOS....
Get Stacked: Reduce Icon Clutter in Mojave with New Desktop Stacks

Get Stacked: Reduce Icon Clutter in Mojave with New Desktop Stacks

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...
Tired of PDFs or Other Documents Opening in the Wrong App?

Tired of PDFs or Other Documents Opening in the Wrong App?

by Marilyn | Oct 17, 2018 | customization, Finder, Mac, productivity, Tip

When you double-click a document, macOS uses the document’s file extension to figure out which app should open the file. So, by default, a PDF file called laser-squid.pdf opens in Preview because the Finder knows that everything with a .pdf extension should open in...
Here’s How to Hide All Windows on Your Mac So You Can Work on the Desktop

Here’s How to Hide All Windows on Your Mac So You Can Work on the Desktop

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...
Fix a Frozen Finder with This Quick Tip

Fix a Frozen Finder with This Quick Tip

by Marilyn | Jun 20, 2018 | Finder, Mac, Restricted Content, Tip, Troubleshooting

Finder freezes. They shouldn’t happen at all, and they don’t happen often, but it’s not unheard of for your Mac’s Finder to freeze, freak out, or otherwise stop responding properly. To bring it back to life, hold down the Option key, click and hold the Finder icon in...
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