Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. I’ve never been able to find anything easily ...

For years I thought System Preferences was dumb about how it only allowed one pane open at a time, but at least it was possible to add frequently used panes to the toolbar to avoid having to go back ...

In Mac OS X Lion, it’s finally possible to customize your System Preferences, removing unwanted preference panes as well as sorting them in different ways. Here’s how. Launch System Preferences from ...

Maybe this is news to only me, but I had no idea until a couple of minutes ago that when you choose a picture in the Organize portion of iPhoto and click the Desktop button, the position of that ...

If you frequently access the same System Preferences pane on your Mac, you can add a shortcut directly to your Dock. Here’s how: If you want to add shortcuts for third-party panes, those are found in ...

Mac OS X ships with a lot of default system preference panes and I have about 30 of these on my MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion. There are an extra 11 preference panes that I’ve added by installing ...

I’ve seen enough people launch System Preferences via the Apple menu to adjust a PowerBook’s display, sound, or keyboard options that I thought I should remind them of the following: If you hold down ...