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Photo : Margirita_Puma ( Shutterstock ) Some Mac users have a single administrator account on their machines. There’s nothing wrong with that if you’re the only person who uses the computer. If others have access your Mac, though , you should create a second account for added security. Here’s why. When you share an admin account with others, there is nothing stopping them from creating a new user account and removing admin privileges from your own account. You can see this issue play out in this Reddit post , where the poster’s ex made themselves the admin and blocked the OP from a host of actions on the Mac. As long as they know your account password, they can make themselves the admin on your machine. The simplest way to prevent this situation is to create a separate admin account only you can access. First, click the Apple logo in the top-left corner of your screen and select System Settings or System Preferences . Now go to Users & Groups . Click the Add Account or the...

Photo : Ground Picture ( Shutterstock ) Black Friday brings some of the deepest discounts of the year for all sorts of tech products—and apps are no exception . If you’ve been holding off on buying any pricey paid, it’s worth taking another look this week. It might just be the perfect time to tap “Buy.” Below, we’ve highlighted a few of our favorite apps currently available at a discount. The list is accurate as of publication time , but things may have changed by the time you read this, so i f you see something you like, grab it before the deal expires. Many of these apps are good enough to be totally worth the full price, which makes these holiday bargains even sweeter. Affinity Suite: A great Photoshop alternative Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher are among the best alternatives to Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign apps, respectively. Affinity allows you to pay once and keeps these apps until the next major version update. Many people p...

Photo : Margirita_Puma ( Shutterstock ) Modern MacBooks generally don’t suffer from battery life woes, but when you do face unexpectedly high drain, it can be hard to diagnose the issue. Sleep Aid is a Mac app that helps you figure out exactly why your Mac’s battery is draining, and it’s geared toward idle battery drain. That is, when you put your MacBook to sleep, it shouldn’t be losing a large chunk of charge. If you lose more than a few percentage points of battery life when you’ve closed the Mac’s lid overnight, Sleep Aid can spot the issue. The utility shows a graph that marks various wake events on your MacBook and labels these events for you. That way, you can tell if your MacBook woke up due to some dust on the trackpad, an errant app, or interaction with Bluetooth accessories. Its graphs label potential issues in orange or red colors, making it easy to figure out when your Mac’s battery drain began and what caused it. For added battery support, the app automatically dis...

Photo : Daria Gromova ( Shutterstock ) When you want to back up your iMessage chats, iCloud is a severely limited option. It’s good for syncing your chats across devices, and to avoid sudden data loss, but that’s about it. Anyone who has ever tried to find a particular message from years back, especially if that message contains a photo or video, knows there’s a lot of room for improvement. While we wait for Apple to improve iCloud for Messages on its own, check out these better alternatives for exporting and managing your iMessages. Use a third-party app to export iMessage data There are plenty of apps that allow you to export iMessages easily to a Mac or a PC. Some that jump out to us are iMazing or Keepster . With both of these apps, you’ll have to connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC and back up the texts to your computer. While iMazing is more focused on letting you save or print texts, Keepster lets you convert your messages into a book, but both are good, easy apps for ba...