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Your Mac ships with a folder full of powerful, free utilities that most users have never deliberately opened. In this show, Lee works through the macOS Utilities folder from A to Z, shining a light on twelve tools that have been quietly sitting on your Mac all along. He covers everything from diagnosing a slow system and managing audio devices, to picking colours from your screen, graphing equations in 2D and 3D, and giving your Mac a voice from the command line.

Some of these utilities are decades old, one is brand new in macOS Tahoe 26, and all of them are completely free, already living in your Applications' Utilities folder, and waiting for you to discover them. By the end of this video you'll have a whole new appreciation for what's been hiding in plain sight on your Mac.


This video covers:

  • Utilities Overview
  • Activity Monitor
  • Audio Midi Setup
  • ColorSync Utility
  • Console
  • Digital Colour Meter
  • Grapher
  • Magnifier
  • Screen Sharing
  • Screenshot
  • System Information
  • Terminal
  • VoiceOver Utility

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