Last week in Mac Basics we showed how to launch apps automatically at startup. On a related note, there’s a way to quickly access apps, files, and servers you’ve recently used. Under the Apple menu, ...

Continuing our recent how-to focus on customizing the macOS Dock, in this article we're going to share with you a method for adding a recent or favorite items stack to the right of the Dock divider.

In Mac OS X, Apple provides access to recently accessed items through the Apple menu's "Recent Items" submenu. This list keeps track of recently accessed documents, servers, and applications that can ...

One of the built-in services Apple offers application developers in OS X is a method for listing recent documents that have been opened by that particular application. When implemented, you will see ...

I had previously used the "Open Recent" in various Mac OS X programs. However, the rate at which I open files vastly outnumbers the available slot space that the OS provides by default (which is 10).

Sometimes, when using the Recent Items feature of the Apple menu, you might like to find a specific file or app without opening it. Maybe you just want to find it, and then copy it or move it to a ...

Reader Dan Moynihan (no, not that Dan Moynihan) is interested in maintaining only the greatest hits of his Recent Items. He writes: At the bottom of the Recent Items menu there is an option to Clear ...