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How to Set Up Your New Mac

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No, Really: The macOS Disk Utility Can Resize Volumes

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Gain Access to Hidden Mac Features With Onyx

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Share Your Mac's Printer With Windows 7 Users
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How to Get Older Printers Working With Your Mac
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Keep Your Kids Safe: Know How to Setup Parental Controls on Your Mac
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How and Which User Accounts to Add in Mac OS X
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Use System preferences to Assign a Secondary Mouse Click
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Back Up and Archive Your Photos or iPhoto Libraries
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GarageBand Supports MIDI Keyboards and Virtual Keyboards
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How to Use of the Mac's Security Preferences
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New to a Mac? How to Launch Applications
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If Your Mac User Account Has a Typo, Here's How to Change Your Name
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How to Manage Do Not Track Settings in Your Mac OS X Browser
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How to Use the 'Energy Saver Preferences' Pane in OS X
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Manage Your Mac's Sudden Motion Sensor
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Discover the Secrets of Using the Mac's Finder
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Use Disk Utility to Format Your Mac's Drive (OS X El Capitan or later)
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Disk Utility Can Partition Your Mac's Drive (OS X El Capitan or later)
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Finder Views, Which Is the Best?
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How to Add a Standard User Account in Mac OS X
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Control Your Mac's Dock Visibility With These Five Tips
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How to Set Up Your Mac With Multiple Administrator Accounts
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How to Share Your Printers With Windows or Mac Computers
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Keep 'em Safe with Parental Controls (OS X Lion through OS X Yosemite)
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Discover all of the Finder's Cover Flow View Options
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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Cleaning Your Mac's Display
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How to Customize Your Mac's Dock
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The General Preference Pane Lets You Customize Your Mac’s Appearance
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How to Tweak the Desktop and Screensaver Preferences in Mac
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Here's The Scoop On Installing Fonts On Your Mac
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Modifying Startup Behavior and Home Pages in Mac OS X Web Browsers
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How to Change the Default Browser in OS X 10.10 or Above
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Which Keys on the Keyboard Correspond to the Mac Modifier Symbols?
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How to Use Terminal to View Hidden Folders
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Split View Lets You See Two Apps In Full-Screen Mode
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How to Bring Back Startup Sounds to Your Mac
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Tom's Mac Tips: Control the Volume of Your Mac's Startup Chime
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MacDraft Pro 6.2: The Latest Version of a Venerable Mac Drawing App
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Get Acquainted With Siri on the Mac
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Use OS X Migration Assistant to Move Windows Data to Your New Mac
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Turn On TRIM For Any SSD You Added To Your Mac
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Configure Your Mac’s Display Settings to Meet Your Needs
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Teach Your Mac's Trackpad New Tricks
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Font Book Does More Than Just Let You Preview Your Font Collection
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Use Font Book to Manage Your Macs Fonts
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How to Identify and Remove Corrupt Fonts on Your Mac
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You Can Add a Message to Your Mac's Login Window
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The Complete Apple Mail Keyboard Shortcut List
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The Easy Guide to Auto-Installing Printers on Mac OS X
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You Can Add Your Own Desktop Wallpaper to Your Mac
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Control the Dock's Location and Alignment on Your Mac With These Tips
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How to Personalize Mac OS X with a Custom Screensaver
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How to Use Managed Accounts to Limit Access to Your Mac
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An Easy Way to Move Windows PC Files to Your Mac
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How to Configure The Notification Center to Meet Your Needs
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Do You Use the Finder's List View? Discover What Options Are Available
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Add a Desktop Printer to Your Mac and Restore Drag-and-Drop Printing
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Customize How Spotlight Works
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Add Your Twitter Account to Safari's Sidebar
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Preview or Print Font Samples with the Mac's Font Book App
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Keep Your Apps From Taking A Nap By Controlling App Nap in OS X
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Here's How to Block Devices On Wi-Fi Using MAC Address Filtering
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How to Setup Your Mac to Share a Windows 7 Hosted Printer
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The Finder's Icon View Has Plenty of Options to Choose From
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Smart Albums are an Incredibly Powerful Tool for Photographers on a Mac
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These Simple Steps Will Get Your Mac Ready to Sell
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Enable Night Shift on Your Mac to Ease Eyestrain
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How Preview Can Be Your Go-To Image Editor
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Create RAID Storage Solutions With the Mac's Built-in RAID Assistant
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Siri Commands for the Mac
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Project Ubuntu: Getting Linux Running on Your Mac
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Forget the Keyboard! Activate Your Mac's Siri Using Your Voice!
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Everything You Need to Know About Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C Adapters
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Be a Dictator and Control Your Mac With Voice Commands
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Perform a Clean Install of macOS Sierra on Your Mac
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Perform a Clean Install of OS X El Capitan on Your Mac's Startup Drive
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Upgrade Install Of OS X El Capitan Is Easy, With A Few Precautions
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How To Copy The OS X Yosemite Installer To A Bootable USB Flash Drive
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How to Create a Bootable Flash Drive for Installing OS X Lion
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How to Copy DVDs to Your Mac Using VLC and Handbrake App
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How to Use Terminal to Split a Mac Fusion Drive
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How to Find Your iPods Hidden Folders with Terminal
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How to Download Movies From the iTunes Store
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How to Use Mac Disk Utility to Create a RAID1 Array (Mirror)
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An Easy Guide to Creating a Bootable Installation Disk of OS X Mountain Lion
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How To Create an Emergency Mac OS Boot Device with a Flash Drive
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Protect Your Data! How to Clone a Startup Disk Using Disk Utility
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Drive Volume Size to Small? Use Disk Utility to Resize a Volume
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Easy Steps to Partition Your Mac's Hard Drive with This Free Tool
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Erase or Format Your Mac Drives with These Security Options
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Move Your iTunes Library to a New Larger Drive
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An Easy Guide to Clean Installing OS X Mountain Lion on a Startup Drive
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Use Disk Utility to Repair Hard Drives and Disk Permissions

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