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  1. Picking Passwords: Pitfalls, Practicalities and Protection

    Picking Passwords: Pitfalls, Practicalities and Protection

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Like many people, you probably have a password for logging on to your computer at work, another one for logging into your work email, and then there’s your...

  2. Send and Receive Faxes With Your Mac

    Send and Receive Faxes With Your Mac

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Unbelievably, millions of faxes are still sent and received all over the world each year. Unlike obsolete formats such as cassettes, VHS tapes and floppy...

  3. Quick Tip: Organize Your Dock With Spacers

    Quick Tip: Organize Your Dock With Spacers

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    The Dock is undoubtedly one of the best features inside of OS X. Many have discounted it, tried to replace or out right copy it, but with little success. In...

  4. How to Play Tetris, Pong and Other Hidden Games on Your Mac

    How to Play Tetris, Pong and Other Hidden Games on Your Mac

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Did you know that you can play Tetris on your Mac? Of course you did, you can play lots of games. But did you know that there's already a Tetris game built...

  5. Quick Tip: Trick Out Your Mac with Terminal

    Quick Tip: Trick Out Your Mac with Terminal

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    The Mac OS X operating system is already really sleek, but we're going to look at how to use terminal to activate some cool hidden settings that will make...

  6. How to Launch Any App with a Keyboard Shortcut

    How to Launch Any App with a Keyboard Shortcut

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Today we're going to rise up and face a challenge that was posed to me recently: how do I assign a keyboard shortcut to launch an app? There's no obvious...

  7. How To Perfect A PDF with PDFpen

    How To Perfect A PDF with PDFpen

    Tutorial • Beginner

    PDF (Portable Document Format) is a pretty standard means of passing information along. As freelancers, we have many opportunities to send and receive PDFs,...

  8. Speed Up Your Terminal Workflow with Command Aliases and .profile

    Speed Up Your Terminal Workflow with Command Aliases and .profile

    Tutorial • Advanced

    What are those mysterious ".profile" and ".bash_profile" files you've heard about? How do you go about adding something to PATH, which many applications ask...

  9. Quick Tip: Lightning Fast File Creation with Terminal

    Quick Tip: Lightning Fast File Creation with Terminal

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly create any type of file in OS X and place it in any directory? With a few quick Terminal commands, you can! Read on...

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