Computer Skills Tutorials

Brush up your computer skills with hundreds of free tutorials covering macOS, iOS, ChromeOS, Linux and Windows operating systems and applications. Follow our expert instructors who'll help you become more productive and get the most out of computing.

We all want to work smarter, and the collection of productivity tutorials will help you do just that. You'll also find tips on customization, automation, and other essential skills to help you accomplish more tasks in half the time. And then you can take some solid app training to discover how to get the most out of the apps you use.

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  1. How to Create Free Offsite Backups With CrashPlan

    How to Create Free Offsite Backups With CrashPlan

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    If you'd like to easily backup your data between computers on a network or over the internet, Time Machine may prove quite limited. Fortunately, CrashPlan...

  2. 40 Terminal Tips and Tricks You Never Thought You Needed

    40 Terminal Tips and Tricks You Never Thought You Needed

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    The Terminal is an exceptionally powerful tool, providing a command line interface to the underpinnings of OS X. It’s a topic we’ve covered at length before...

  3. Quick Tip: How to Stop Your Mac From Sleeping Using the Command Line

    Quick Tip: How to Stop Your Mac From Sleeping Using the Command Line

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Computers sleep as a way to save energy and prevent unnecessary wear on your machine's hardware. Yet there are times you may want to stop your Mac from...

  4. Getting Started With Grapher, Your Mac's Built-in Graph Tool

    Getting Started With Grapher, Your Mac's Built-in Graph Tool

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Grapher is one of those tools on OS X that is sadly abandoned. I'd even go so far as to say that a majority of Mac users either wouldn't know it existed or...

  5. How to Take and Edit Screenshots For Tutorials

    How to Take and Edit Screenshots For Tutorials

    Tutorial • Beginner

    All of the sites across the Tuts+ network are constantly on the lookout for top quality contributors. If you're interested in writing for us, drop us a line....

  6. How to Use Console: Your Mac's Diagnostic Diary

    How to Use Console: Your Mac's Diagnostic Diary

    Tutorial • Advanced

    The hardest part of fixing a computer problem is often identifying its cause. As operating systems become more advanced, this becomes increasingly...

  7. Quick Tip: Configure TextEdit for Coding HTML

    Quick Tip: Configure TextEdit for Coding HTML

    Tutorial • Beginner

    If, like me, you are starting to get into HTML and web design, you may feel a bit lost when it comes to choosing an HTML editor. You may be a bit...

  8. Homebrew Demystified: OS X's Ultimate Package Manager

    Homebrew Demystified: OS X's Ultimate Package Manager

    Tutorial • Advanced

    You keep seeing the word "Homebrew" whenever you install an app that isn't simply dragged into the Applications folder. What is Homebrew? The site says...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

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