Working halfway around the world? Preparing for a trip spanning continents? Does your Mac stubbornly keep picking the...
macOS Terminal
The macOS Terminal app lets you use classic command line tools (such as editors or compilers) and interact perhaps more directly with the operating system’s underpinnings.
Adjust the Volume on a Mac (Keyboard, Menu, Terminal)
Startled when a new song suddenly blasts from your Mac twice as loud, or when a video whispers instead of talking to...
How to View Running Processes Using Mac Terminal (top and ps)
Your Mac is blowing its fans heavier than normal, your cursor starts spinning, and you must wonder what’s happening...
How to Copy Terminal Output to Your Mac Clipboard
Tired of going through hoops just to copy more than a screenful of text from the command line to another macOS app...
How to Make a Hidden Folder on a Mac
Folders everywhere on your Mac and no privacy when guests peek from behind your back? Tired of nesting folders inside...
How to Discover Why a Mac Does Not Go to Sleep
Left your Mac alone and, coming back, find it still wide awake? Figuring out what processes are keeping a Mac from...
How to Fix Locked Volume on a Mac (and Why It Happens)
Suddenly find you can’t change the volume on macOS? No matter what you press or click, output remains stuck. Find out...
How to Open Finder from Terminal on a Mac
Stuck in Terminal wishing you could just open Finder to see the current folder’s files? Want to jump from a...
How to Lock Files and Folders on a Mac
Edited or, worse, accidentally deleted an important document, and now you wonder if there’s a way to make sure this...
How to Compute the Square Root on a Mac
Need the square root of 2? Got a formula figured out and there’s something squared on one side? Find out here how to...
How to Open Mac Terminal in the Current Folder
Wish you had a Terminal window and could open a Terminal window to work on files — but you’re only staring at them in...
How to Take a Screenshot from Mac Terminal (Screencapture)
Want to automate or script taking screenshots on a Mac? Need to take a screenshot but don’t want to use the usual...












