Archives: OS X

Energy efficiency is a key feature of OS X Mavericks, and Apple has created a new Activity Monitor section to help users keep track of exactly what’s going on with their apps. Here’s how to understand and use this info to maximize your battery life.

Once a major selling point of Mac OS X, the Dashboard has received relatively little attention over the past few years. With OS X Mavericks, however, Apple has given users a bit more control over how the Dashboard Space works in Mission Control.

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.

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.

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.

Spotlight is a powerful tool included in OS X that can help you quickly find any file or folder on your Mac. But sometimes you’d rather keep certain items hidden so that snooping eyes won’t find your sensitive data. Here are three ways to prevent Spotlight from indexing certain files and folders on your Mac.