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The Recent Items menu can be really helpful-- if the item you're looking for is in it! Here's how to increase your chances.

The Recent Items item, in the Apple menu, can save you a lot of time– if the thing you’re looking for is in the Recent Items list. Unfortunately, a lot of the time the app or document you want has fallen off the list, so going to the Recent Items menu turns out to be wasted time. We can change that.

Recent Items default settings

By default, the Recent Items menu shows the last ten apps…

Apple mulled axing venerable Apple Menu for Control Center in OS X Yosemite

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“In addition to the comprehensive redesign, OS X Yosemite could have made a significant change to how the Mac operating system functioned since it originally shipped just over thirty years ago,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.

An “image from a source shows a March build of OS X Yosemite that featured a Control Center panel,” Gurman reports. “The panel did not end up…

How to put your Mac to sleep and keep it there

Putting your Mac to sleep is perhaps one of the easiest tasks you can do; however, there are several options for doing this that you might not know about, and in addition, if your Mac is either not going or not staying in sleep mode, then there are several things you can try to remedy the situation.

First, to get your Mac to sleep you have anything from menu options to Terminal commands that can…