When you set a background desktop picture in Mac OS X, the operating system will create a blurred pictured of the same picture on your lock/login screen by default (if you have automatic login disabled). Some users report the locked desktop picture background sometimes is a grey background picture, instead of a blurred picture of what...

You can force TextEdit to open as a plain text document by default. Sometimes users prefer to work and save in plain text versus rich text documents. This option is configured in preferences. Follow the steps below.   Open TextEdit and go to TextEdit -> Preferences. Under Format, select Plain text.    Now, TextEdit will open each...

You can easily re-arrange the icons in the top menu bar of your Mac desktop. Follow the steps below for the latest version of Mac OS X.     Hover your mouse cursor to an icon in your Mac menu bar and hold down the command key. This will disengage the icon to be moved.  Re-arrange your...

If you are curious what is inside a Solid State Hard Drive (SSD), we opened up one to see first hand. Opening up any hard drive will void the warranty, so we do not recommend doing this unless you plan on disposing the hard drive afterword’s. Technical Details Model: OWC Mercury Extreme SSD (Other World Computing...

You can permanently disable Mac OS notifications and any future notifications from apps you install on your Mac. Each time you install an app on your Mac, is chooses to send notifications from notification center and in most cases you never know the app did this. Instead of going into notifications each time to disable them...

What is It? System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a built-in security mechanism that helps protect your Mac from unknown processes and applications from modifying or accessing certain directories and files as root. Read more here.   Why Do You Need It? By protecting root files and directories, Mac OS helps ensure integrity and protection of the...