How to Find your Mac’s MAC Address?

The MAC address for a system is its Media Access Control address, which is a unique string of hexadecimal characters that identifies your system’s physical port on the network. This address is used by routers on your local network to ensure proper assignment of IP addresses, and network information routing. It can also be used … Read more

How to Rebuild Mailboxes to Troubleshoot Message Handling Issues in macOS Mail?

Apple’s Mail program can connect to a number of different e-mail services, including popular ones like Gmail, Outlook.com, and Yahoo, but in addition be configured for custom IMAP and POP services, such as those at work or educational institutions. While Mail can manage messages from many different accounts and account types, sometimes an error may … Read more

How to Ward off iMessage Spammers?

Apple’s iMessage service is the default messaging system for anyone using macOS or iOS, so if you use one of these systems then you likely have an iCloud account active and ready to receive messages. Unfortunately, at times and especially if you have a popular iCloud user name, you may receive spam texts and other … Read more

How to Turn off Notifications in macOS?

Apple’s Notification Center in OS X is a central service that allows you to view messages and warnings from your system along the right-hand side of your screen. Messages appear either as banners that disappear, or as alerts that require you to click a button to close. You can also click the Notification Center icon … Read more

How to Back up your Mac?

When using or troubleshooting your Mac, you may be eager to jump in and get to work; however, it is worth your while to ensure your system is properly backed up, especially if your work and data is important, or if you plan on making changes to the system in any way (e.g., installing software, … Read more

How to Fix QuickLook Errors in macOS?

QuickLook is a service built into macOS that allows you to quickly preview the contents of many document types. When browsing through your files in the Finder, to view their contents simply highlight one and then press the spacebar to open the preview window. This service should work for many common file types, including images, … Read more

How to Put your Personal Mac on Your Work’s Network?

Quite often corporate networks will have restrictions that prevent you from using them with your personal system. Sometimes, only systems that have been imaged by an IT department are allowed on a domain, with others being restricted via MAC address filtering (among other methods) from even connecting. However, you may find yourself having worked on … Read more