Self Service

get the most from your Mac One emergency fix, a useful maintenance trick, and three neat features you might not have even realised are in Yosemite. If you accidentally insert a Mini CD into a MacBook SuperDrive and it gets stuck, shut down the MacBook, turn it on its side and shake the laptop up and down hard once or twice. The CD should poke out enough to grab. If OS X has saved several different passwords for the same website, you can delete the old ones using the Keychain Access app. Type the website name in the search box. Right-click a password and choose Get Info to check it’s one to delete. Safari remembers when you use a website’s built-in search bar. After that, you can type the name of the site plus your search term directly into Safari’s smart search field. For example, type ‘wikipedia hydrogen sulfide’ and Safari will suggest ‘Search en.wikipedia.org for “hydrogen sulfide”’ automatically. If you use tags to find your files, you can drag any tag from the Finder’s sidebar to the right-hand side of the Dock to create a spring-loaded stack containing all the files that match that tag. With Yosemite and iOS8, if your iPhone rings, it will show up on your Mac’s desktop and you can answer it there. You can also make phone calls by clicking phone numbers in Contacts, Calendar or Safari. The Mac’s keyboard works when entering keypad digits to get past menus,