Evil Week: How To Hide Porn On A Mac
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
This Bathroom Staple Will Keep Your Trash Cans From Smelling Awful
Photo: Jenson (Shutterstock) From the garage to the kitchen to your kids’ bedrooms, smelly trash cans abound in your home. But you might already have the perfect solution—in your bathroom.…
These Are the First Changes You Should Make on Any New MacBook
Photo: Colin Hui (Shutterstock) If you recently bought a new Mac, you don’t have to spend days setting it up to your liking. Whether it’s for work, school, or a…
Use This Terminal Command to Force Eject a Stubborn Disk From Your Mac
Photo: The Image Party (Shutterstock) We’ve all been there: You have an external hard drive or USB thumb stick plugged into your Mac, and you’re ready to part ways. You…
8 Unconventional Ways to Save Storage Space on Windows
Screenshot: Khamosh Pathak Storage Sense is well and good, but the old Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is a lot more useful. You can use it…
How to Remove the Recycle Bin on Windows (and Why You Actually Should)
Photo: Bloomicon (Shutterstock) Like the Trash folder on a Mac, the Recycle Bin seems like a pretty important part of Windows. If you accidentally delete something, you can always get…
You Really Should Automate Your Windows Storage (and How to Do It)
Photo: Bloomicon (Shutterstock) If you frequently keep running out of storage space on your computer, it’s past time to take just a few steps to sort your problem out. Many…
Those Apps You ‘Deleted’ on Your Mac Might Still Be Hanging Around
Photo: Siyanight (Shutterstock) Windows has a dedicated section for uninstalling apps, but Mac doesn’t. It’s supposed to be simpler on the Mac—you delete an app just like a file by…
You Can Restore Events You Accidentally Deleted From Google Calendar
Photo: Jarretera (Shutterstock) Accidentally deleting stuff is not fun. It can be all too easy to mistakenly erase photos, files, and conversations from your accounts, sometimes without even realizing it.…
How to Automatically Empty the Trash on Your Mac (and Why It’s Fine)
Screenshot: Pranay Parab Like most people, if you have a base variant MacBook with 128 GB of storage, freeing up space on your Mac is probably a regular event in…