This may sound like a rather trivial issue, but shutting down or restarting your Mac can be a problem at times. Knowing various ways to shut down or restart your Mac can help prevent you from having ...

Pressing the Mac power button in OS X Mavericks puts your Mac to sleep. A simple Terminal command can change it to display the shutdown dialog instead. The Mac power button currently has three ...

Back in the day, I used to care for a couple of labs full of Macs. Invariably, I’d find myself in the lab at the end of the day, shutting them all down for the night. I’d run up and down the rows of ...

Tension Software (www.tensionsoftware.com) has upgraded Mac Shutdown to version 4.0. The utility can use “Soft Shutdown” and “Hard Shutdown” to power down your Mac. Soft Shutdown is issued at the ...

August 17, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Sometimes you just need to reboot or shut down right away-and we mean right away, with no waiting. Thankfully, ...

Have you ever had a need to shut down your Mac, but, for one reason or another, you couldn’t actually do it? You might be wondering how that could be—consider a situation where you’ve left your work ...

Mac commands can speed up everyday tasks, whether opening files instantly, hiding desktop clutter, keeping your Mac awake, testing internet speed, or renaming files in bulk. These fourteen commands ...