In praise of the Utilities folder's unsung heroes<article>
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The other day my daughter was frustrated by her math homework. She was plotting x and y coordinates onto a grid, but a few of her answers just didn’t line up. I suggested that we check her work, and in the back of my mind I recalled that there might be a quick way to do that right on my Mac.</p><p>
The app in question is Grapher, a utility you probably never realized has been installed on your Mac since 2005. It is one of the unsung heroes of the Utilities folder. Placed inside the Applications folder, Utilities is the subfolder where Apple banishes apps that it wants to keep as a standard part of OS X without giving them the exposure that the main Applications folder supplies.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2913757/in-praise-of-the-utilities-folders-unsung-heroes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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In praise of the Utilities folder's unsung heroes
