Apple has retired the Mac’s Launchpad, a feature that displayed all your apps and let you quickly pick the one you want to ...

The Apple ecosystem may be designed to provide streamlined experiences, but these open-source apps show there are other ...

Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, ...

Your Mac comes pre-configured to open specific file types with default apps. Click on a web link, and it launches Safari. Open an email notification, and you're directed to Apple's Mail app. This ...

In macOS Sequoia, Apple has added another stumbling block to launching software that has not gone through Apple’s baseline vetting process for apps. Generally, this can be a good thing, preventing ...

If you update to macOS Sequoia, you’ll have to go to Settings > Security & Privacy and approve the app on first open, because Apple is taking away the current right ...

Level up your Mac window management like I did. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac As a power user, I find Mac window management clunky and broken when using the options built into macOS. Switching ...

The macOS Dock displays apps you add to it or that you run. Here's how to make it display only apps that are currently running on your Mac. The macOS Dock app originated in macOS's early OS precursor ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Clearing browser and app cache can fix a slow Mac and free up space.Safari, Chrome, and your apps all ...