Catalina: Expert Guides and Resources

Whether you’ve purchased a new Mac with macOS Catalina pre-installed or you’ve upgraded from a previous version of macOS, you’ll find that Catalina makes your Mac easier to use and offers myriad improvements to make you more productive.Get additional information on things you should never do to your Mac, a list of useful and timesaving keyboard shortcuts, a discussion of when folders are too full and when (and when not) to create subfolders, recommendations for backing up data, and a short discussion of Apple devices and continuity between them.

We can all use a break from our digital devices, and Apple’s solution is Screen Time. Although Screen Time includes the parental controls that used to appear in the Parental Controls System Preferences pane, this new feature is about policing your own screen time behavior as well as the behavior of others in your family (if you so desire).

Podcasts are like radio or television shows, except when you subscribe to them, you can listen to or watch them at any time you like. Podcasts have been growing in popularity. As a result, thousands of podcasts are available and many (or most) are free.There are podcasts on a vast variety of topics so there is something for everyone.

The folks at Apple want to make your life easier. That includes multiple ways to adjust your Mac’s brightness with Dark mode. Have you ever thought that the white background in most windows on your Mac was far too bright? Have you ever fiddled with brightness hoping to take it down a notch? Some Mac users go to extreme lengths to see their screen better.

Even if you’ve read the book on Macs you have a lot more to discover about using your Mac, and new tools and products come out every single day.The best way to gather more information than you could ever possibly soak up about all things Mac is to hop onto the web. There you can find news, freeware and shareware (try-before-you-buy software) to download, troubleshooting sites, tons of news and information about your new favorite OS, and lots of places to shop.

This information is for speed demons only. At some time in their Mac lives, most users have wished that their machines would work faster — even if their Macs have multiple cores or processors. While these tips won’t actually speed up your Mac, here are some ways to make your Mac at least seem faster. Better still, at least some of these tips won’t cost you one red cent.