Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

It’s easy to never go beyond the basics of Open and Save dialog boxes, despite their being perhaps the most-used feature of the Mac interface. Instead of simply working with the basics, make these ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” I don’t ...

Sometimes, you discover the coolest Mac OS X tricks by accident. That happened recently to Hints reader philostein. And philostein’s accident is our gain. First, copy a file path to your Mac’s ...

Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...

Finally, go to the Settings section and select Change high DPI settings button. This will open a new dialog where you have to mark the checkbox next to the Override high DPI scaling behavior. If ...

Microsoft has reported that when right-clicking on apps such as 'Calculator' installed in Windows 10, a dialog box 'Choose how to open this file' is displayed instead of launching the app. Microsoft ...

The Computer Management console is a Windows administrative tool for performing maintenance operations on your business computer. The console serves as a hub for ...

I recently wrote a column on how to open a dialog box in an ASP.NET MVC application. In that column, I had the HTML for the dialog box dynamically generated at runtime from a Partial View and ...

Google released the third developer preview for Android 12 on Wednesday, which brings a few smaller changes to the newest version of Android. Of course, the biggest changes will come with the first ...