Archives: Mac

OS X Mavericks makes creating a PDF easy with a new “Export to PDF” command right in the File menu. But you can speed the process up even more by assigning it a custom keyboard shortcut. Here’s how.

App Nap is a novel feature of OS X Mavericks that automatically slows down background apps to save energy and extend battery life. But some users may want to control the power to their apps themselves. Here’s how to disable App Nap in OS X Mavericks.

It’s back! After being hidden by default in OS X Lion, Apple has finally given users an easy and approved way of restoring the visibility of their user-level Library folder in OS X Mavericks. Here’s how to do it.

Automatic app updates, first introduced in iOS 7, are now available in OS X with Mavericks. While many will find the feature quite handy, power users may want to maintain greater control over what gets installed on their Mac. Here’s how to disable automatic app updates in Mavericks.

The new iCloud Keychain in OS X Mavericks promises to make managing passwords, notes, and credit cards easier by automatically offering to save them as you use them. But it’s not entirely clear how to manually manage things like credit card numbers. Here’s how.

Apple changed the way that users can create custom USB Installers for OS X Mavericks. Here’s a new method that works with Apple’s just-released operating system.

Apple has long included many subtle features as part of OS X. One of the most useful is a built-in audio converter in Finder. Here’s how to convert your audio files to Apple-friendly AAC using just two clicks.