What’s the Deal with All the Privacy Requests in Catalina?
Over the last few releases of macOS, Apple has been beefing up Mac’s privacy controls so they more closely resemble what the company has done in iOS. You’ve undoubtedly noticed …
Rename Bluetooth Devices for Easy Management
It’s all too easy to end up with more Bluetooth devices connected to your Mac than you can shake a stick at. Apple devices will likely have sensible names, like …
What Mac should I buy?
One question I receive from many of my clients is what Mac they should buy. Luckily, Apple’s product lineup is very simple compared to most other brands. Basically, it comes …
Where Did Your Scroll Bars Go? Change This Setting So They Always Show
On the Mac, scroll bars are essential for both orienting yourself and navigating within a Web page or document window. But they may not appear unless you hover the pointer …
27-inch iMac gets a big update, 21.5-inch gets better configuration options
Apple’s workhorse desktop Mac, the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, hasn’t seen an update since March 2019—nearly a year and a half years ago. Happily, the company has finally …
Older ScanSnap Scanners Get New Life in Catalina with unexpected ScanSnap Manager V7
About a year ago, Fujitsu informed owners of older models of the company’s ScanSnap scanners that it wouldn’t be updating the necessary ScanSnap Manager app to be 64-bit, effectively preventing …
Apple releases macOS 10.15.6, iOS 13.6, watchOS 6.2.8, iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8, HomePod 13.4.8
Today Apple released what may very well be the final update across the current OSes before they turn their attention toward this fall’s iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur updates. …
Macs Switching from Intel Chips to Apple Silicon—Answers to Your Questions
At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, the company dropped a bombshell: in the future, Macs will no longer be powered by Intel chips but will instead rely on custom-designed Apple …
Here’s How to Set a Default Printer on the Mac
If you have access to multiple printers, you probably know that you can choose one from the Printer pop-up menu at the top of the Print dialog. But macOS has …
Find Files in the Finder Better by Specifying a Search Scope
This isn’t about periscopes or mouthwash—when it comes to searching, a scope is the area in which a search takes place. When you use the Search field in a Finder …