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    How to Fix a Frozen Application in your MacBook Pro

    Even though the MacBook Pro is a really high functioning PC, there are times when an application may just freeze. This usually happens while you are carrying out bigger tasks such as editing a video, and this can be a real annoyance. However, what is even more annoying is the inability to close...
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    How to Create Hard-Drive Partitions on the MacBook Pro

    Creating a hard drive partition can provide a variety of benefits to a PC user. Firstly, it means that you can now have a separate space for a particular type of files. Add to this the fact that this will also reduce the amount of pressure on your hard drive and also processes to run faster...
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    How to Back Up Files on your MacBook Pro

    Backing up your files is of paramount importance. No matter how well protected or well serviced your MacBook Pro may be, you do not know when it is going to crash. And when it does, losing your data can be a really serious problem. But if you are a MacBook Pro user, then there is an in-built...
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    How to Get a Photo Viewer like Windows on your MacBook Pro

    The MacBook Pro is a machine built with the intention of providing the maximum amount of ease of access. This entails a variety of applications and features which are available only in a MacBook and these make it a much better PC than a Windows one. However, there are certain features of a...
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    How to Record the Screen Activity on a MacBook Pro

    Want to show off your gaming skills to your friends? Or want to make a quick tutorial video? The easiest way to do this is by recording your activity on the MacBook Pro by recording the entire screen and its movements onto a video file. The video file can then be shared easily with anyone. This...
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    How to Use Activity Monitor to Speed Up your MacBook Pro

    Even though the MacBook Pro is one of the fastest PCs that you can get, due to over usage and passage of time its RAM can get totally occupied and thereby make the PC slow. This is actually a problem most MacBook Pro users face in the long run. And while there are a variety of ways to try and...
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    How to Add a Guest User in your MacBook Pro

    Tired of people constantly asking you to let them use your MacBook? It is quite obvious to feel a certain amount of discomfort to let other people use your PC. It is called a personal computer for a reason after all. And this happens too often with MacBook Pro users since there is a ton of added...
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    How to Use the HomeShare Option on your MacBook Pro

    For people who use more than one Apple device it can get quite tiresome to download the same items over and over again in all these devices. One of the most cumbersome processes among these is the task of shifting all the music from one iTunes app to another and most people get this wrong as...
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    How to Search Within a Website Using MacBook Pro

    Google searches make our lives much easier to deal with. Any information on any subject can be found by simply typing the keyword(s) into Google and all the relevant webpages are brought before you. The process which follows this includes shifting through hours of data on each of these webpages...
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    How do I get a security lock off so I can get going on my macbook pro

    I have a security lock on my macbook pro and it messes my I'd and all my password so I keep changing password id's still locked
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    How to View More Details in the Finder Box in a MacBook Pro

    For anyone who uses their MacBook Pro for professional purposes, it is quite easy to get slumped with a lot of files in their PC. And while Spotlight is a very nifty tool to dig out a file buried in a forever lost folder, it cannot show you the path towards that file nor can it show you details...
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    How to Stop Websites from Collecting your Data in MacBook Pro

    Websites which collect data are harmful for various reasons. One, they can easily pass on your private information to other parties and they may use it to their advantage. Secondly, these websites may turn harmful and use their connections to send malware to your PC. And if websites collect your...
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    How to Pay Using your Apple Pay Account in MacBook Pro

    Apple Pay is a quite handy feature for all Apple device users. It partners with around 200,000+ websites so most of what you want to purchase online can be paid for by using Apple Pay. You can set up in your iPhone and it will automatically sync with all your other Apple devices, and if you have...
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    How to Save Articles Automatically to Read Later on the MacBook Pro

    Has it ever happened to you that you are looking for information on a certain topic and have found a detailed 4 page article on a website, but you just don’t have the time to read it now? And since you found this article after maybe an hour of research you are not sure whether you will be able...
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    How to Change the Default Destination for Screenshots in MacBook Pro

    Taking a screenshot on a MacBook is a great feature which people use a lot. And since these screenshots are saved automatically on a desktop, the desktop will clutter up if you take one too many screenshots. But if you use a MacBook Pro you can change the default location of the screenshots. If...
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    How to De-Clutter your MacBook Pro Hard Drive

    One of the problems MacBook users perennially face is their hard drive space getting filled to the brim. This not only doesn’t allow you to save further files, but also slows down the PC. This however, is not always due to the number of files on your MacBook. There are a variety of software...
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    How to Sync your iPhone Calendar with your MacBook Pro

    This is the age where we live in a technological bubble surrounded by various devices. But what we really need is a thorough connection between all these devices such that we are not required to perform the same function multiple times. One of the primary functions as such is the updating of the...
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    How to Find and Delete Similar Photos in the MacBook Pro

    More often than not we end up copying the same file twice to our PC from any of our various storage devices or cameras. And if you are someone who considers photography as their profession you probably suffer from this problem much more than the rest of the population. Apart from the fact that...
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    How to Quick Edit Screenshots on the MacBook Pro

    While on other PCs you need to open a separate application to edit a screenshot, on the MacBook Pro you can do this right after taking a screenshot in the same window itself. This saves a ton of time and allows for a much needed ease of access. Screenshots are without doubt a very handy tool to...
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    How to Change the Notification Centre Icon on your MacBook Pro

    The MacBook Pro comes with a large variety of features and with every single update the roster of features seems to be ever increasing. While some of these features such as split-screen, screen record, etc. are very useful tools, some of the others serve the purpose of personalizing your...