When you are working with an item on your Mac, such as a file, folder or mounted drive, you can create an alias to it that does not contain the word "alias." All new Macs running the OS X operating ...

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Every so often, you make a discovery that throws the world as you know it into disarray. My latest foray into the Twilight Zone came when I found that it is now possible to create aliases to apps in ...

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In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...

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Apple has long provided the ability to create desktop aliases in macOS by Command-Option dragging. Here's how to do it from the macOS Dock. Given most macOS desktop items such as files, apps, disk ...

You're savvy enough not to use your primary e-mail address to sign up for online offers, trial software, and shopping. Those e-mails are little more than spam magnets, so in the past, you might have ...

If you need regular access to a specific pane in System Preferences, you can get there quicker by creating an alias. Reader eytanbiala shows us how. I tend to turn Internet Sharing on and off a lot, ...