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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 that you need to leave, you actually have a few more minutes. You can do this with your Apple Watch, but only on the watch itself. Pre
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 lure you into revealing login credentials, financial information, or other confidential details. A State of Phishing repo
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 the printer specs you may see a reference to AirPrint or ePrint which means it's compatible with mobile devices. Of course, my recommended printer
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 of a cherished memory. The only way to do that on an iPhone or iPad is to take a series of screenshots, but if the conversation is i
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 subscription. The app is only available for iPhone. I haven't heard anything about future
In the past few months, Google seems to have gotten a lot more aggressive about wanting to know your current location any time you search. On one hand, many see this as an invasion of privacy, but on the other hand, Google uses your location to offer search results that are more relevant to your loc
If you have a HomePod or HomePod Mini I'm sure you have found how easy it is to ask Siri some simple questions. The recently released HomePod Software 16.3 now supports Find My, which means you can ask Siri to locate one of your devices or a friend or family member who shares their location wit
There are many reasons you might want to get rid of apps from your iPhone or iPad. To begin you can either: Touch and hold on a blank spot or an app icon on the Home Screen to enter “jiggle mode.” Then tap the ⊝ icon for any app, or Touch and hold an app icon long enough for a menu to
Years ago Finder on Mac added a really nifty little feature where the icon thumbnail for audio and video files offers a teensy tiny player right in the icon. While technically really cool, I think I'd file this feature under "we did it because we can". All too often, I see people trying to
Sometimes it seems as though the user interface on Mac and iPhone is made for people with exceptionally good vision. By default, many elements on the screen are light-on-light or dark-on-dark and therefore easy to miss if you aren't looking carefully. Luckily, Apple has a feature you can enable call
For many years now, the default behavior on macOS has been to completely hide scroll bars unless you are actively scrolling. This drives me crazy because you cannot tell what parts of your screen are scrollable unless you move your mouse around and try scrolling things, and because you cannot see ho
Safari for Mac has a "compact tab layout" option that saves you a small amount of screen space. Instead of having the address bar at the top with your tabs below, they are combined so that the address bar is inside of the tab. This is particularly useful for small devices like laptop compu
In macOS Ventura and iOS 16, Apple added a really cool new feature called Continuity Camera . Basically, it allows you to use the camera and mic in your iPhone XR or iPhone 11 or later with apps like FaceTime and Zoom on your Mac. This is great for two different groups of people: those who are diss
What's the best monitor for Mac? I compare Dell and Apple options at every price point, with setup tips. One-on-one tech tutoring in SF, DC, or Zoom.
There are many web browsers available for Mac, but most of us are familiar with the big three: Safari , Chrome , and Firefox . Which one should you choose? By and large, it comes down to personal preference. They all work similarly well. In general, if you don't have a strong preference I will ge
In early December, Apple made a surprise announcement: Advanced Data Protection for iCloud . It’s not as though iCloud’s standard data protection is problematic, but it hinges on one architectural decision that makes some iCloud data theoretically vulnerable: Apple holds the encryption keys necessa
Photos has long provided a hidden album you could use to hold images you wanted to keep a little more private. Until this year, however, it was security through obscurity: anyone in-the-know could tap a few buttons to see its contents, presuming they have access to your device. Now you can protect
In November, Apple launched its new Emergency SOS via satellite feature for the iPhone 14 lineup. And it has already saved lives . If you have an iPhone 14 and find yourself in an emergency situation in the US or Canada without cellular or Wi-Fi service, you can still contact emergency services.
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