Did you set a firmware password on your Mac and you don’t remember the password for it? Some Mac users will apply a firmware password to provide top security to their Mac operating system. Note: A Mac firmware password is different than your Mac user account password.   The firmware password is used to prevent others...

Sometimes your Mac OS X font database cache needs to be cleared out and rebuilt. You may notice issues with fonts not displaying correctly in applications, fonts loading slowing in Microsoft Word, causing Word or Adobe to suddenly crash.  It is good practice to clean and rebuild your Mac OS X font caches only if you...

Need to quickly sign a PDF in Mac OS X Preview app? You can easily sign your PDF using natural hand gestures on your Mac Laptop using your Trackpad.   1. Open your PDF in Preview 2. Click the briefcase icon.  

Mac OS X Safari by default does not show the full website URL when you type it into Safari’s URL bar. When you type a website in, it will show the top level domain but not subsequent links you might be browsing to. This can be annoying if you want to know the exact webpage you...

If your Mac is suddenly suffering hardware or software issues, or is generally acting up you can run sysdiagnose in Mac OS X Terminal. Sysdiagnose compiles a number of advanced technical reports for expert Mac users to review and troubleshoot appropriately.  Sysdiagnose will output the following information in a tar.gz file.   Crash reportInput/Output detailsDisk information{loadposition...