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 | 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... 
by Marilyn | Oct 2, 2017 | Finder, gesture, keyboard shortcut, Mac, Mission Control, productivity, Tip, trackpad
When you click the green zoom button in a window on your Mac, that puts the window into full-screen mode. It’s a great way to maximize screen real estate on a smaller MacBook screen, for instance, but how can you switch between these virtual screens quickly? You could...