Most Popular Mac Downloads and Posts of 2015

Its been another year, which means yet another iteration on OS X.

Here are our best Mac posts from this past year.

Superior Alternatives to Boring Stock Mac Apps

Macs are bundled with a ton of software.

Some of it is awesome, but some of its overly basic.

El Capitan is a small enough update that it doesnt have many annoyances, but theyre still around.

Heres how to fix some of its more annoying problems.

Lets take a look at some of the lesser known features.

Heres how to use it.

Dear Lifehacker,OS X El Capitanis out today.

It looks good, but its still an upgrade, and any upgrade has a chance of going bad.

You guys have been using it; what do you think?

Is itsafe to implement the betas for them?

Whats the experience going to be like if I do?

Your photo library is a mess.

Your downloads folder is a mess.

We all have too many duplicate files on our computers we dont need.

To get rid of them on your Mac, we recommend Gemini.

This is especially the case with a Mac, which keeps all kinds of stuff behind the scenes.

But if youre coming over from Photoshop, youll notice that things work a bit differently.

Mac: Although Macs dont often get malware, they arent immune.

Heres how to burn El Capitan to a USB drive instead.

However, with the rise of Macs over the past few years, thats no longer true.

Our friends at the How-To Geek explain how OS X crapware works, and how to avoid it.

Heres why its important, and how it could actually change health care for the better.

Even then, it was a promising way to enhance Spotlight in OS X Yosemite with more search results.

Now, the apps much more mature and with a bunch of plugins, its incredibly powerful.

Lets take a look at how to set it up and find some of the most useful plugins.

Or, when things get real weird, youll sometimes see a ticking watch?

It turns out that the answer has to do with the app youre working with.