Are you looking for a way to max your Mac’s CPU’s to 100% over a period of time? You can easily do this without the need of software. You may be interested in stress testing your Mac for performance investigation, heat exhaustion, testing your Macs fans, or even to help quickly drain your Mac laptop battery....

You can change the default auto-save time Microsoft Word on Mac OS X is setup to auto save documents. The default auto-save time on Word for Mac OS X is 10 minutes (in the latest version of Word). This is a reasonable value, however for people that often type more in shorter time frames, you can...

While using Mac Mail, you may receive the following error while opening Mail or adding a new email account.   Connecting Insecure Failed to verify the server certificate. This could be because of your network configuration or your proxy settings.    *Update* - This is likely caused by Avast Web Filtering being enabled and blocking Gmail web access for adding...

Today’s Mac computers have a built in feature called recovery mode which allows you to start your Mac computer on a separate boot partition on your hard drive and restore from Time Machine backup, reinstall Mac OS, or use disk utility. If your Mac does not have the built in recovery mode, you can attempt to...

If resetting the NVRAM and PRAM on your Mac have not fixed unexpected behaviors with your Mac, try to reset the the System Management Controller (SMC). See Apple’s support article on learning more about the SMC.   Reset SMC on Mac Laptop - Non Removable Laptop Battery Shutdown your Mac laptop.Unplug your power adapter from the...