Reveal Your Desktop Quickly with a Keyboard Shortcut
The Mac’s Desktop is a remarkably useful place. It’s a good spot for in-progress documents, screenshots, images dragged out of Web pages, and more. However, app windows tend to obscure …
How to Turn Mail’s Rich Website Previews into Plain Links
Sometimes apps can be too helpful. Beginning with macOS Ventura, Apple’s Mail on the Mac turns pasted URLs into graphically rich previews, and sometimes that’s OK. But other times, the …
Apple releases security fixes with iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, macOS 13.3.1, Safari 16.4.1
Today Apple released a series of small bug fix updates for many of their OSes. This includes: I suggest updating your devices right away if possible. In addition to patching …
Set Your Apple Watch Clock Ahead a Few Minutes to Avoid Being Late
Those who tend to cut things tight have a time-honored tradition of setting their watches ahead by a few minutes. That way, when you glance at your watch and realize …
A Practical Guide to Identifying Phishing Emails
Phishing is becoming an ever more common way for people to get in trouble when using the Internet. A phishing attack is some communication, usually an email, that tries to …
How to print from iPhone or iPad
If you have a network-enabled printer from the past 5 to 8 years, there is a very good chance it supports printing from iPhone or iPad. If you look at …
Need to Back Up or Export a Messages Conversation? Try iMazing or export to PDF for free on Mac
Occasionally, I hear from a client who needs to document a Messages conversation with timestamps, perhaps as part of a lawsuit. Or for making sure you have a safe copy …
Apple Music Classical now available in the App Store
Last night Apple released the long-awaited Apple Music Classical app, nearly two years after purchasing the classical music streaming service Primephonic. Apple Music Classical is included with an Apple Music …
Apple releases macOS 13.3, iOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, HomePod 16.4
Today Apple released updates across all of their OSes. I’ve been running the betas and I have to say I’ve personally never seen my devices run more smoothly. I hope …
My Mouse Recommendations
Computer mice are perhaps the most personal device for your computer since you hold them. Generally, you can’t go wrong with any Bluetooth mouse from Microsoft or Logitech. I don’t …