If you don’t write all the time, then you probably don’t need a full-featured word processor, such as Microsoft Word () or Apple Pages (). But you still may want a flexible tool for handling text that ...

Everyone writes. Whether you draft reports, make grocery lists, or author scholarly works, the tool you use for text may be the most important program on your Mac. Some people need a full-featured ...

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device pioneered the graphical-user interface, or G.U.I., a convenient ...

パソコンとの付き合いは20年以上。最初はWindowsを使っていたが、務めていたソフトウェア開発会社でMacに出会い、魅了される。その後、Windowsのシステム構築、PHP開発を行いつつ、Macプログラミングを独学で習得、自ら開発を行うようになる。「MacPeople」など ...

The Mac hosts file is a system level file located at /etc/hosts which maps IP addresses to host names for Mac OS X networking. Many users edit and modify the hosts file so that they can point a domain ...

If you use TextEdit on Mac for your simple word processing and quick plain text editing needs like a Notepad equivalent from the Windows world, you’ll likely appreciate that the latest versions of Mac ...

I have always been a big proponent for individuals purchasing some form of a word processing software the first instance of purchasing a Mac. The software that comes with Mac, TextEdit, is one that I ...

Dann is a content strategy and marketing consultant who helps companies generate demand and leads. He also blogs about strategy and content marketing at dannalbright.com. When it comes to native Mac ...

TextEdit – the default text editor on Macs, is quite good. In fact, if your only need from a text editor is to type out some stuff, format it a bit, and keep it, then TextEdit will probably fit the ...

On the rare occasion a list of all of the files within a folder are required, there is a simpler way than manually typing it out or creating a collage of Finder screenshots. AppleInsider reveals how ...

A bug in Lion means Apple's popular TextEdit utility may append the TXT extension to files regardless of their original file types. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...