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.

All Computer Skills tutorials:

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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,...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...