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You’ve undoubtedly seen those odd-looking square QR codes on product packaging, a business card, or a flyer. In the past, you needed a special app to scan a QR code to see what Web URL, contact card, Wi-Fi network, or other piece of information it held. In iOS 11, though, you can just point your iPh
With watchOS 4 now arriving on Apple Watch users’ wrists, it’s time to make sure you aren’t missing out on any of the important features—and to share a few tips for how to use them. watchOS 4 works on all Apple Watch models, even the original Apple Watch. It does require iOS 11, so if you’ve been us
While you were basking at the beach this summer, Apple kept Siri busy taking intensive language classes. In iOS 11, Siri can now translate English words and phrases into Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. So if your next vacation takes you to Paris, you can now ask Siri for help
Although Apple’s eye-catching Desktop image of the High Sierra mountains makes it easy to confirm that your Mac is running High Sierra, the most noteworthy new features are invisible! These changes are aimed at improving your Mac’s performance. This update is brand new and holds lots of promise, but
Today Apple released their latest iteration of macOS, dubbed High Sierra, version 10.13. As always, Apple's system upgrades are free. Here is just about everything you need to know. For those of you who are adventurous go ahead and install it . However, there aren't many features that are really gr
Today Apple released their big annual updates for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. These updates bring lots of new features. Unless you rely on specific apps that have known compatibility issues I recommend updating right away. There are some big under-the-hood changes so I strongly recommen
The Share Sheet is allows you to send the content you are currently looking at (a photo, a web page, a document, a voicemail, etc.) to another app. To get started tap the Share button which is available on most screens where you are looking at content. If a large number of apps can accept the sh
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to edit the same files on your iMac and your MacBook without copying them back and forth manually or using a service like Dropbox or Google Drive? That has been possible in Apple’s iCloud Drive for some time, but it could be clumsy to store files in iCloud Drive instea
Apple does what they can to protect their users from attacks, but as security systems have become more sophisticated in recent years hackers and scammers are becoming more creative in finding a way. Recently they have turned to the weakest link in your computer security: you! Security software is la
Using Messages on the Mac or in iOS is simple. Start a new conversation, enter someone’s phone number or email address, and start chatting. And if you want to talk with several people at once, type a couple of phone numbers or email addresses when you begin. What you may not realize is that if eve
If you frequently create files whose names vary from those of other files in the same folder by only a date, sequence number, or other small detail, you can accurately standardize file naming and save effort with this trick. When saving your file, click a grayed-out filename in the Save dialog’s lis
It can be difficult to stay focused on a specific task in the Mail app when you keep getting distracted by incoming messages. Fortunately, you can reduce these distractions using the Filter feature that Apple added in macOS 10.12 Sierra and iOS 10—and you can look forward to working with it in the u
When it comes to graphics on the Internet, it’s easy to feel as though you’re swimming for your life in a giant bowl of alphabet soup, surrounded by shouting acronyms: GIF! JPEG! PNG! TIFF! What do those names mean? Why does your camera spit out JPEGs? What’s the best format for a Web graphic? Grab
iBooks in iOS has a built-in sleep timer that can automatically pause playback after a specified amount of time, which is great for listening to an audiobook as you go to sleep (tap the Moon button below the volume slider). What if you prefer listening to content that’s not in iBooks, like music or
If your Mac resembles an absent-minded professor’s office with files and folders strewn about, getting to the right spot to open or save a file may have become slow and clumsy. Sure, in an ideal world, you’d organize everything perfectly, but you’d also be flossing twice a day, calling your mother e
Even if you already know this tip, you may not have realized all the places where it works. When you find yourself in a list on the Mac, as in a Finder window, an Open dialog, or a set of auto-completion options, you can usually press keys on the keyboard to navigate within the list. Press M, and yo
It’s easy to take lots of photos on vacation these days, and while a slideshow of all of them is a bit much, friends and relatives might like to see a Best Of collection. Or you might wish to share baby photos with your family or pictures of your new city with friends back home. These special shared
In 2015, Apple quietly changed the behavior of the Command-1 through Command-9 keys in Safari on the Mac. Before then, pressing Command-1 would open the first bookmark on your Favorites bar. Now, however, Command-1 switches to the first tab, Command-2 opens the second tab, and so on. If that’s not h
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