Google Chrome is a great browser, but there’s no setting to stop it from recording your browsing history. Here’s how to get around that limitation.
How to Find the Color Picker in iWork’s Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
Apple released a completely rewritten iWork suite alongside OS X Mavericks, but many key features were lost in the process. One that we feared was gone was the handy color picker in Pages. Thankfully, it’s still there, but it’s not where you might think. Here’s how to find it.
How to Use the Activity Monitor Energy Tab in OS X Mavericks
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.
How to Manage the Dashboard Space in OS X Mavericks’s Mission Control
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.
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How to Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut to Export to PDF in OS X
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.
How to Disable App Nap in OS X Mavericks
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.
How to Restore the User Library Folder 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.
How to Disable Automatic App Updates in Mac 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.
How to Manage Stored Credit Cards in iCloud Keychain
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.
How to Create a USB Installer for OS X 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.