While the menu extras in OS X are convenient, sometimes they can be occluded by the application or system menus. Here are some ways to manage them to prevent this from happening. Topher Kessler ...

In addition to the comprehensive redesign, OS X Yosemite could have made a significant change to how the Mac operating system functioned since it originally shipped just over thirty years ago. The ...

Menu extras are the small utility menus at the top-right of your screen that give you quick access to some of the system preferences and other central options in OS X, such as options to select Wi-Fi ...

[Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...

The Option key is a powerful ally in your transition from new, beginner user of OS X to the power user that you want to be. There are a ton of features in the Menu Bar that are hidden behind this ...

Welcome to our complete guide to the menu bar in Mac OS X. Since publishing this article we’ve come up with an updated article which covers all the features in macOS Sierra and more recent versions of ...

Sometimes you need to use your entire screen at once, like when you’re working on a serious photo-retouching project or need more screen real estate for an epic GarageBand session and you don’t want ...

Safari 5.1 in Mac OS X Lion adds a new window-integrated downloads popup menu with behavior that appears to be borrowed from iPad. Safari's existing Downloads window, which lists every document, disk ...