If a miscreant has purloined your Mac, you can use iCloud's Find My Mac feature to locate and, hopefully, retrieve your laptop. Watch our video to find out how.

You can easily stop programs from running at startup on your Mac computer using your System Preferences.

As with any personal computer, your Mac can occasionally have programs that have problems or glitches. Here's how to force quit any application on your Mac.

How do I find out what is running in the background? There are various ways to view background tasks on a Mac, be it from glancing at your Dock to opening the Terminal and seeing a detailed view ...

As with any personal computer, your Mac can occasionally have programs that have problems or glitches. Here's how to force quit any application on your Mac.

With a bit of playing around, you should be able to find some pretty neat features squirreled away in your favorite OS X applications.