Despite what this stock photo implies, I believe your Mac has to be turned on for the keyboard shortcuts to work. Photo: Fabian Irsara firsara/Wikimedia Commons Mac keyboard shortcuts are a great way ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Every time you're on your Mac, you're using ...

Shortcuts. The word itself carries a heavy weight in our household. Growing up, my parents relentlessly instilled in me the idea that one must work hard to succeed. They always said, "shortcuts are ...

While a Mac's performance is something you'll have to seldom worry about, there will be times when you'll see the frustrating spinning rainbow wheel on your Mac. Occasionally, your Mac's screen may ...

Maybe you're visiting family with your MacBook and set up a temporary workstation using whatever you can find around the house. Maybe you bought a fancy mechanical keyboard for your Mac not realizing ...

The Leader Key is a popular concept in coding, and it essentially works like a hotkey. In old-school text editor VIM, a leader key is a shortcut starter, a first button to begin a special command. For ...

There are plenty of keyboard shortcuts that you’re probably already using on your MacBook for common tasks. Yet, Apple has also built in several system shortcuts that might end up saving you some time ...

The KeyClu app makes it easy to see a list of Mac keyboard shortcuts for any application, which should help you memorize them ...

Apple rarely mentions keyboard shortcuts, you're just somehow expected to find them. So here are ten AppleInsider favorites, each one of which is guaranteed to speed up working on your Mac. You should ...

The Option key on a Mac is a modifier key that is used to change the functions of menus and keyboard shortcuts. Use Option key to do things like force quit unresponsive apps, fine-tune the volume and ...

If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them. Apple's macOS ...

Raycast is one of my favorite Mac utilities of all time. When I recommend Raycast to someone, I usually like to say that it’s a Swiss Army knife for your Mac. It is an app launcher, a shortcut ...