Mac OS X

This wikiHow teaches you how to force your Mac to shut down. Doing so can be a quick way to turn off your Mac without having to use the mouse, but you'll usually only need to force

Apple's Terminal provides you with a UNIX command line inside the OS X environment. You can enter the open command here to open any application, or to open a file with the

To connect a Magic Mouse 2 or Magic Trackpad 2 to your Mac, you can plug it in and let your Mac take care of the connection. For older wireless mice and trackpads, you'll need to

You can open any Mac application with root privileges, as long as you have an administrator password. As always, do not use root access unless you know what you are doing, as you

This wikiHow teaches you how to change your Apple ID password on a computer or on your iPhone. If you've forgotten your Apple ID password, you'll need to reset your Apple ID

Blocking certain websites can keep you productive during the workday, or minimize the chance of your child finding adult content. You can create a website 'blacklist' for your Mac

This wikiHow teaches you how to configure your Mac or PC to safely shut down at a certain time. Make sure you save your files frequently so you don't lose data during a shutdown.

PDF (Portable Document Format) files are widely used to create and share documents, as the PDF will keep formatting intact regardless of the viewer's operating system and software.

When your Mac is connected to a network, it is assigned an address on the network called an IP address. The IP address is four sets of digits separated by periods, with up to three

This wikiHow teaches you how to copy and paste text or files on your Mac computer. While your Mac's built-in menu bar is the preferred way to copy and paste information, you can

This wikiHow teaches you how to back up the data and files on your Mac to an external hard drive and/or Apple's cloud-based storage service, iCloud. Connect your Mac to a formatted

This wikiHow teaches you how to run Windows' executable (EXE) files on a Mac. To do so, you can either install WINE, which is free software, or install Windows 8 or 10 using your

This wikiHow teaches you how to uninstall a program that is installed on your Mac. You can uninstall programs by putting them in the trash bin, or if they came with their own

This wikiHow teaches how to edit music on Mac using GarageBand. GarageBand is a free music editing app that generally comes pre-installed on Mac. It's also available in the App

Microsoft Word is a widely-used word processing program, used most frequently on PCs. Fortunately, you can also download Microsoft Word for your Mac. There are two basic methods,

You can modify both the tracking speed and scrolling speed of your Mac's trackpad with just a few changes to the Trackpad and Accessibility settings from the System Preferences

A TAR file is compressed files with the extension .tar.gz. Opening TAR files with a Mac is easy, but the process is a little more complicated on a Windows-based computer, which

This wikiHow teaches you how to edit an image on a Mac computer using the Preview app. The Preview app allows you to rotate, crop, add text, adjust color, add shapes, as well as

To adjust your Mac's mouse or trackpad to scroll faster, click on the Apple menu → Click on 'System Preferences' → Click on 'Accessibility' → Click on 'Mouse & Trackpad' → Click on

The ability to boot a Mac from FireWire is most useful when you're experiencing problems with your Mac and need to run system diagnostics, or simply access the system but cannot do