Mastering the Mac
How to set up multiple users on your Mac
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Get smart when it comes to using a shared Mac in a house full of people: Set up individual user accounts to keep everybody's stuff separate.
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Mastering Photos for OS X
How to use multiple libraries with Photos for Mac
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How do you keep your home and work photos separate? Your photos and your significant other's apart? With multiple libraries!
Mastering the Mac
Best backup plan for your Mac
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How do you backup your Mac locally and online so you never risk losing your important files and photos? Here are your options!
Don't bug me while I'm working!
How to set up and use Do Not Disturb on Mac
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Most of the time you want to be alerted when something happens on your Mac — for example, when it's time for an appointment or if you get an important email. But other times you want your Mac to stay quiet, and that's where Do Not Disturb comes into play.
How to use Mac Recovery System
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If your Mac can't boot up, don't panic. The built-in Recovery System can get you up and running!
The Network
The future of apps is services
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As developers figure out ways to turn software into services, we'll continue to see subscription models like Smile's new TextExpander try to take root. How successful they will are is a function of utility, and perceived value.
Mastering Apple Music
How to manage Apple Music subscriptions on the Mac
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Managing your Apple Music subscription — including toggling off automatic renewal — in iTunes is anything but obvious. Here's how to do it!
Mastering Apple Music
How to add Apple Music to your iTunes library on the Mac
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With an active Apple Music subscription, it's very easy to add new music to your iTunes library. When you subscribe to Apple Music, you can add to your own iTunes music library the many millions of tracks available through the service. It's important to note, however, that you don't own these tracks. Really, you're renting them. So if you sign out of Apple Music, or let your...
Mastering El Capitan
El Capitan and SIP keep malware off the Mac
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Malware is a serious problem that requires a serious solution - in El Capitan it's called System Integrity Protection, and it's wreaking havoc with some system utilities that require "root" access to work.
Mac Help
Should you upgrade your Mac to El Capitan?
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El Capitan, Apple's latest evolution of OS X, lands on Wednesday. Is your Mac ready for the jump?
Mac Help
Say goodbye to repairing file permissions in El Capitan
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Repairing file permissions has long been a standard practice of many old-time Mac users. Debates have raged about its efficacy, but the bottom line is there's always been a way to do it in Apple's Disk Utility app, and if Apple lets you do it it, it must be okay, right? That changes with Disk Utility in El Capitan. Let's take a look.
NSFW
Six reasons to sit out the iPhone 6s launch
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The iPhone 6s looks like a truly remarkable piece of hardware. And as always, iMore is your in-depth resource for all things iPhone 6s. But not everyone is upgrading to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, Do you regret not getting Apple's latest and greatest, or are you on the fence about getting one? Here are a few reasons you shouldn't feel bad about sitting this upgrade out.
AirPort upgrade
Mac Help: Improving poor Wi-Fi coverage
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Weak Wi-Fi can cause a whole host of problems for your Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch — here's how to fix it.
Upside down makes more sense
The Apple Watch and 'Reverse Crown'
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I was having dinner with my friend Rich when I noticed something interesting: His Apple Watch was on upside down. At least, it looked upside down. Out of the box, the Apple Watch is designed to work so the Digital Crown is positioned in the upper right hand corner. Rich's Apple Watch was oriented so the Digital Crown was in the lower left hand corner instead — an orientation...
Apple TV and HDMI-CEC
How the new Apple TV controls your television
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The newest Apple TV turns on your TV, switches inputs and controls volume using some built-in HDMI wizardry which your TV may already support, even if the name for that feature is a bit different.
Skylake is here
Intel's Skylake is here, Macs are soon to follow
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Intel's newest sixth-generation Core processor technology touts performance and efficiency improvements, but the biggest beneficiaries will be those replacing older Mac hardware — once new systems are available.
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One to One training is costly for Apple retailers
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A rumor surfaced this week that Apple's excising its One to One program at its retail store in favor of expanding the free group workshops program. One to One allows owners of new Macs and other devices to purchase a year's worth of weekly, personalized training with Apple specialists in Apple retail stores at a steal of a price: $99. If One to One does indeed go away, I can understand...
Mac Help
How to turn off auto playing videos on Facebook
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Facebook's default status is to automatically play the video once it loads. I'd prefer it not to do that, because I don't like my attention — or my Mac's attention — getting hijacked like that. There's an easy way to fix the video auto-play problem. It doesn't involve mucking up your Mac with content blocking software or web browser plug-ins. It's right there in Facebook's preferences.
Mastering the Mac
How to restore old-style zoom control in OS X
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Beginning with OS X 10.10 Apple changed the way the green button in the menu bar of open windows works, but you can restore the "old" method using a key command.
Mac Pro power coming to laptops
Will the laptop Xeon processor end up in a MacBook Pro?
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Intel's announced, for the first time, a laptop variant of the processor that powers the Mac Pro — and it's based around the company's new sixth-generation Core processor architecture.