Make Apple Mail Your Personal Assistant with This Highly Rated Plug-In
Your email is your communication hub, the place where your most important conversations and to-dos take place – doesn’t it make sense to make it as convenient and helpful as possible?
Enter MailButler, your personal assistant for efficient and productive work with Apple Mail. With a variety of functions, MailButler simplifies, optimizes, and streamlines the emails in your life so you can prioritize and organize your life.
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Keep Unwanted Eyes & Ears Away from Your Mac
Camera Guard Pro is the ultimate solution for your Mac’s webcam and microphone security needs. With just two clicks, Camera Guard blocks and observes all programs and processes that aim to access the webcam, preventing any unwanted access by hackers or government officials.
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For a limited time you can buy Camera Guard Pro for Mac for only $9.99 ( retail price $29.90 ) here.
multiple ways to quit an app in macOS
There are plenty of ways to quite an app in macOS. But sometimes an app will misbehave, and will simply stop responding to commands.
Jump over the break to learn how to quit app on your Mac and, more importantly, how to force quite a frozen app.
an easy way to restore any Mac app to its default settings
Installing apps on your Mac is ( probably ) a daily occurrence. Once you install the app you start messing with the settings. And maybe, for some reason, the app will start misbehaving. Probably won’t even load.
In this case you have two options. Completely uninstall the app ( check out our guide on how to completely uninstall Mac apps ), or reset the app back to its default settings.
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enable the hidden single-application mode in macOS Sierra
Back in 1999, Steve Jobs showed off the new Finder in Mac OS X. It ran in single-application mode, meaning that when you switch from one app to another the first app would be automatically minimized.
Almost 18 years later, this feature is still pretty useful, especially if you want/need to maximize productivity while working in a specific app and quickly remove all distractions.
You don’t need to install any third party apps because the feature is still built-in, but it’s not activated.
Jump over the break to learn how to enable single-application mode in macOS Sierra.
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easy way to customize the Launchpad layout
When OS X Lion was released to the public, it came with something called Launchpad. It’s basically the same thing as your iPhone or iPad’s home screen.
You can find all your apps there, you can swipe back and forth through app pages, place apps in folders and click and hold on an app icon until it starts “jiggling” to delete the app ( don’t uninstall Mac apps like that. Check out this tutorial to learn how to completely uninstall Mac apps ).
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this is how you COMPLETELY uninstall apps on your Mac
So you decided to do a bit of spring cleaning and uninstall all those apps that you never use. People think that uninstalling Mac apps is as easy as dragging the app to the Trash. Not really. Mac Apps comes in different shapes and forms.
You can download apps from the Mac App Store, from third party sources. They can come as a .zip, .dmg or a .pkg file. Some apps have their own uninstaller others don’t. That means that uninstalling apps on a Mac is a difficult tedious process.
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easy way to reset your Mac’s Dock to factory settings
If you experience issues with the Dock or you went to far with the customizations, you can easily reset it to factory settings.
This trick will remove any manually added apps to the dock, restore all the default Dock apps and reset the size, magnification settings and location of your Dock.
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position picture-in-picture windows anywhere you want
One of the new features in macOS Sierra is Picture in Picture multitasking. When watching a video in Safari or iTunes you can now float that video over the desktop so you can continue working on other things. The floating video screen can be pinned to any corner of you Mac’s screen and resized.
Sometimes, having the video pinned to one of the corners of the screen might be inconvenient. Luckily there’s an easy way to move it around and place it exactly where you want.
When floating a video from YouTube ( for example ) hold down CMD and then drag the video screen to the position you desire. It’s that easy. Enjoy!
easy built-in way to rearrange and remove icons from the menu bar
Just like the macOS Dock, the macOS menu bar can get overpopulated. There’s 3rd party apps that allow you to hide them but with macOS Sierra there’s also a new-old feature that made it back to the OS that allows you to easily rearrange your menu icons.
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